Sometimes we write stories about the “world’s oldest living person.” It’s not a title to covet, since it doesn’t last long for obvious reasons.  

Which brings me to this thing in the photos, which we’re told is the “world’s oldest plane.” Would you want to go up in that? Doesn’t this mean that every single plane made before this one either crashed, fell apart or  disappeared over some ocean? So, you do the math. 

“Passengers, welcome aboard World’s Oldest Airlines!  We’ll be serving the world’s oldest pretzels, and showing the world’s oldest movie. That hole in the fuselage is the world’s oldest airplane toilet.  Don’t tamper with the world’s oldest smoke alarm…”

You may be better off in a gyrocopter or a homemade submarine

The world’s oldest plane, the 100 year old Bleriot XI, during the Al Ain International Aerobatics Championship in United Arab Emirates, January 24, 2008. REUTERS/Handout

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