Per Woym: 'A refreshing, almost relaxing experience'

The aim of the experiment was to show that if carefully calculated and balanced, the heat energy generated by the combustion of the kerosene and of Woym himself would be exactly cancelled out by the wind chill factor caused by the aircraft's 600km/h speed, leaving him at a comfortable temperature of 17 degrees centigrade. Luckily for Woym, it was a success.

The scheduled flight, containing 138 bemused passengers, took off from Københavns Lufthavne, Copenhagen, at 3:15pm yesterday afternoon. It arrived at Bergen Airport Flesland, Norway, at 4:10pm, ten minutes ahead of schedule.

Once the plane was on the ground, a fire crew rushed to extinguish Woym, as without the wind chill factor of flight there was nothing to counteract the temperature increase caused by the burning kerosene. It took less than three minutes to put Woym out; by 4:30 he was enjoying an ice cream and chatting to the press.

"It was a refreshing experience. In fact, it was almost relaxing," he told Norwegian reporters. "The view was amazing, I was completely at ease. Would I do it again? For sure!" Woym, a senior engineer at the Danish Advanced Aeronautics Institute, added on a more serious note that it took months of meticulous preparation, testing and simulation to ensure the safety of the project, and cautioned against the public attempting similar experiments on their own.

	- by Patrick Pending (Editor-in-Chief)
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