Summary
As titles go, The Magic Carpet Flight Manual takes some, er, beating. This BBC World Service programme, however, takes us into the realms of Middle Eastern mythology and quantum physics, as writer and presenter Cathy Fitzgerald recounts how she stumbled upon the website of an Iranian museum featuring an alleged history of the magic carpet and its sundry uses in warfare and as commercial transport, not to mention assisting readers in the famous library at Alexandria reach those pesky top shelves.
Don't scoff yet, though: she also interviews a quantum physicist investigating levitation, as well as a Japanese astronaut who indeed "flew" on a carpet, albeit in orbit. Just don't tell Michael O'Leary.See the full content of this document
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