Originally Posted by
Martin the Martian
The flight deck is the size of three football pitches... the hangar deck is the size of 12 Olympic swimming pools.
The football pitch comparison is boringly obvious, I suppose, but as few people have actually visited an Olympic swimming pool how about a more useful comparison?
Problem is, there are only four units of measurement suitable for use in newspaper articles such as this one:
Football pitches
Olympic swimming pools
Double decker buses
Wales
So you could say it's one millionth the size of Wales, but that's hard to visualise. I suppose you could say it's big enough to park 200 (or however many) double decker buses, but that's only really useful to people who work in bus depots...