Estimating Airborne People Using Flight Data

🛫 How many people are flying in the air at any given moment?

⚖️ What weighs a pound and costs a pound?

🏈 And there’s some Any Other (Foot)Ballness

Head to our socials to see Bec’s glasses 🤓Pat Patriot 🇺🇲and our Pound for Pound items!

Here is a link to the book Flying With Confidence (which helped Producer Laura with her fear of flying and also helped her answer the problem correctly!)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/415543/flying-with-confidence-by-patricia-furness-smith-and-captain-steve-allright/9780091947859

They Did The Math, They Did The Monster Math on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemonstermath/

Flight Radar 24: https://www.flightradar24.com/

If you’d like to see Bec at the Adelaide Fringe, you can get tickets here: https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/bec-hill-creates-the-perfect-show-work-in-progress-af2026 

And if you’d like to see Matt on tour, all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows 

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