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I’m a pretty decent flyer. I am not particularly scared out of my mind about traveling thousands of miles above the ground in a metal tube piloted and built and maintained by fallible human beings at hundreds of miles per hour. Turbulence always makes me a bit nervous, of course, but I try to sleep through most flights.

Here are the five things I absolutely must have any time I find myself in an airplane:

• denim jeans
• headphones
• backup USB battery pack
• a detective novel
• handkerchief