Since it's Monday (somewhere), it’s a day for data: some dazzling, some damning, and one so disastrous it nearly ended in a fiery metric-to-imperial conversion mess.
Metric vs Imperial.
The infamous 1983 Gimli Glider incident — when a brand-new Boeing 767 ran out of fuel midair thanks to unit confusion. A crash course in measurement failure.
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Airbus forecasts 40,850 aircraft deliveries by 2043.
Their latest market outlook is slick, optimistic, and deeply European.
🔗 https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-airbus-global-market-forecast-2025-people-and-commerce-driving-air
Boeing forecasts 43,560 deliveries (yes, that’s 120 per year more).
Boeing’s market outlook is broader — but no less bullish. Let the forecast wars begin.
🔗 https://www.boeing.com/commercial/market/commercial-market-outlook
Aviation is worth $4 trillion, says Oxford Economics.
That’s 5.1% of global GDP. Try fitting that into a middle seat.
🔗 https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/resource/aviation-benefits-beyond-borders-2024/
Want to fight poverty with data? Try Kiva.
My stats are up, my loans are global, and it’s one of the few feel-good finance stories out there.
🔗 https://t2impact.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-love-kiva-i-love-data-its-great-way.html
Quirky number of the day: 22,300.
That’s how many liters of jet fuel a 767 holds. You probably shouldn’t guesstimate that in pounds.
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