Aviation History

Pan Am History: From Key West Mail Runs to 747 Jumbo Jets

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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

The Death of Distance: How Aviation and the Internet Collapsed the World

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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