TRANSPORTBUSIEST AIRPORT FOR DOMESTIC
AND INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS
According to the Airports Council International (ACI), in 2015
101,489,887 people flew in or out of Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This
placed it well ahead of Beijing Capital International Airport in
Beijing, China, which was second-busiest with 89,938,628.
In 2015, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International also saw
882,497 “traffic movements” – flights taking off or landing –
making it the busiest airport by number of aircraft.LARGEST ROTATING BOAT LIFT
Officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 24 May 2002, the Falkirk Wheel in Falkirk, UK, is 35 m
(114 ft) tall, 35 m wide and 30 m (98 ft) long. It links the Forth ə Clyde and Union canals, and can
transfer more than eight boats at a time. Previously, boats travelling between the two canals had
to pass through 11 locks, which took almost a day; the Wheel reduces that time to 15 min. Forged
from 1,200 tonnes (1,322 tons) of steel, it required 1,000 construction staff to assemble. It
only uses 1.5 kW of energy to turn – the same amount needed to boil eight household kettles.Largest roundabout
Circled by the Persiaran
Sultan Salahuddin
Abdul Aziz Shah road, a
roundabout in Putrajaya,
Malaysia, measures 3.4 km
(2.1 mi) in circumference
and has 15 entry/exit
points. The royal retreat of
Istana Melawati, the Putra
Perdana office of the Prime
Minister and the Putrajaya
Shangri-La five-star hotel
can all be found within the
roundabout’s centre.
Longest ring road
Highway One, or A01, is
a 1,300-mi (2,092-km)
two-lane road encircling
a huge area at the centre
of Afghanistan, linking
16 of its 34 provinces.
Longest ice-
skating trail
As of 14 Feb 2014, the
naturally frozen Lake
Windermere Whiteway
in Invermere,
British Columbia,
Canada, measured
29.98 km (18.63 mi).
First car ferry
Built by the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company’s
BC Coast Service, the
Motor Princess was
launched in 1923. It was in
service for nearly 60 years
before being retired in 1980.Tallest boat lift
The 124-m-high (407-ft)
Krasnoyarsk Dam is
located on the Yenisei
River in Russia. Its ship
lift comprises a flooded
chamber in which the ship
sits while it traverses the
124 - m height on a 9-m-wide
(29-ft 6-in) tracked slope
1,510 m (4,954 ft) in length.
The chamber is 113 m (370 ft
8 in) long and 26 m (85 ft
3 in) wide, and can carry
ships weighing 1.5 tonnes
(1.6 tons). The lift moves its
cargo at 1 m/s (2.2 mph).Highest airport
Daocheng Yading Airport
is situated at an elevation
of 4,411 m (14,472 ft) in
the Tibetan Autonomous
Prefecture of Sichuan
Province, China. The airport
opened on 16 Sep 2013.Largest airport (area)
King Fahd International
Airport near Dammam,
Saudi Arabia, measures
780 km^2 (301 sq mi). This
is larger than the nearby
country of Bahrain.Busiest beach airport
Despite being submerged
daily by the incoming
tide, the beach airport at
Barra in the Western Isles,
UK, handles more than
1,000 flights per year.Busiest airport for cargo
According to figures
compiled by the ACI,
Hong Kong International
Airport handled cargo
totalling 4,460,065 tonnes
(4,916,380 tons) in the
12 months leading up to
31 Dec 2015.Closest airports
The airports on the
neighbouring islands of
Papa Westray and Westray
in the Orkneys, UK, are just
1.76 mi (2.83 km) apart. Both
have been given airport
codes by the International
Air Transport Association:
PPW and WRY respectively.
The flight between the two
airports takes an average
of just 96 sec.TALLEST
SIT-DOWN HYDROFOIL
Hydrofoil technology helps
to raise boats and other
vessels above the water as
they move through it. On
22 Aug 2015, water-skiing
legend Mike Murphy (USA)
rode a sit-down hydrofoil
measuring 11 ft 2.6 in
(3.42 m) tall at Long Beach
in California, USA. He
demonstrated the usable
height of the hydrofoil by
breaking the surface of the
water with the “wing”, then
maintained control for a
farther 100 ft (30.48 m).LARGEST AIRLINE BRAND
(RETAIL RSP, CURRENT)
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Delta Air Lines’ 800-strong
fleet of planes fly to 323 destinations in 57 countries. In 2015, Delta
made estimated sales of ȯ26,752,484,100 (ȳ18,044,400,000),
based on retail selling price (RSP) figures retrieved from the
Euromonitor International Passport database on 19 Aug 2016. The
second-largest brand was United Airlines (USA), with estimated
sales of ȯ24,226,918,500 (ȳ16,340,900,000) over the same period.US carrier Delta
Air^ Lines flies more
than 180^ million
passengers annually.
This is more than the
populations of the UK,
Spain and France
combined.