Behold the epically giant 787

Not to scale
London, ON
November 2018
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Let’s zoom back to November 2018, shall we? To the Before Times. When we idly toyed with our smartphones while jetting from here to there and back, never once cowering within our masks, terrified that our fellow passengers could, you know, infect us.

It was amid one of those blissfully innocent moments that I grabbed this quick photo of the moving map from the seatback display of a 787 Dreamliner descending toward a landing in Toronto.

It was my first time on Boeing’s carbon fibre-bodied wonder, and I had spent most of the trip from Vancouver playing with the trick electronic window dimmers and enjoying the slick software Air Canada had built into its in-flight entertainment system. It’s totally a plane for nerds.

To this day, the sheer size of the virtual plane amazes me. If this were a true, to-scale representation, my hometown of London would have been darkened by our shadow, Independence Day-with-Will-Smith style, and the wings would have stretched hundreds of kilometres between Lake Erie and Lake Huron.

Part of me would like to imagine that this imagery was to scale. And I’d be the guy sitting by the window, waving frantically to my family as I flew overhead.

How hilarious would that be?

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