How Air Travel Changed The World: From Big Balloons To Passenger Jets

Published 2024-02-27
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Traveling by plane has completely changed our world! Where once it took weeks or months to make voyages even a few hundred miles in length, today it takes mere hours. And this has enabled a vast industry to get people around the world and back again. But how and where did it all start and what are the global ramifications of getting people around the world in such a quick manner?

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