fear of flying

     

Fear of flying is a fear of being on a plane while in flight. It is also sometimes referre to as aerophobia, aviatophobia, aviophobia or pteromerhanophobia.

Trivia about fear of flying

  • Erica Jong might know that aviophobia is this
  • Henry Miller hailed this novel as a female "Tropic of Cancer" when Erica Jong published it in 1973
  • Isadora Wing is the lusty heroine of this 1973 Erica Jong bestseller
  • 1973:"There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them"