I bet that would be a terrifying thought for those who fear flying.

What amazes me in this story is how even this amount of travelling would only be 16% of the distance from the Earth to the Sun. A whopping 150'000'000 million kilometres (1 AU or 1 Astronomical Unit).

It really is unbelievably hard to grasp just how gigantic the observable universe is (nevermind how big it actually is).