Aviation impresario Cadbury Malteaser today unveiled an airplane
a
half-mile long with a wingspan longer than a dozen football fields.
The plane, Malteaser
said, will be capable of comfortably accommodating
more than ten thousand people. " We could
easily transport every
man, woman and child in Osceola, Arkansas to Newfoundland or
Shanghai
in a single fiight," he declared. A plane using tradiional jet
propulsion would require dozens
of engines the size of city buses to
provide the required lift – but Malteaser's new aircraft
doesn't use
engines at all. Taking a tip from Santa, it uses reindeer power instead.
"Think
about it," Malteaser says. "Eight or nine reindeer can pull a
heavily-weighted sleigh
across the globe – more than 130 nations –
in a single night. Any one of those
reindeer could easily lift a cruise
ship the size of the St. Mary into the stratosphere on its
own. We've
developed our own reindeer stables, and I'm proud to say that our
ultra-buff
reindeer could give Santa's team a run for their money
any day. Who knows? Maybe we'll
deliver a few presents ourselves
next season." Malteaser laughs. "Mind you,
it might be just a wee
bit tricky landing a plane this size on somebody's roof."
