From “fly-fix-fly” to “anticipate and prevent” For decades, aviation treated safety as a repair loop. Something failed, engineers fixed it, and operations continued. This “fly-fix-fly” approach improved hardware, but it relied on incidents to reveal risks. As fleets, airspace, and data complexity grew, that lag became unacceptable. The industry needed to see weak signals early, … Read more
In just 122 years, aviation has gone from fabric-covered planes to twin-aisle jets that keep four percent of the world’s economy humming. No airline tells stories like Pan American Airways, the upstart that turned mail runs into global travel. 1. Kitty Hawk to Havana (1903-1928) The Wright brothers flew for 12 seconds in 1903 in … Read more
Aviation conquered travel, and the internet conquered time. Together, they made the world feel smaller and permanently rewired how we live. Some inventions reshape entire civilizations. Aviation and the internet are perhaps history’s most profound distance-killers: one conquered physical space, the other eliminated its need. Together, they’ve fundamentally rewritten what it means to live in … Read more