100 years ago today was Wilbur and Orville Wright's first successful manned, motorized flight at Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1903 - the first manned flight. Mind you, it was only a 12-second, 120-foot flight, but it was the first.
11 years later was the first commercial air service - flying passengers 22 miles across Tampa Bay in 20 minutes for one dollar.
Under 44 years after the first flight, on Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager flew a plane faster than the speed of sound.
65 years after the first flight, Apollo 11 lands on the moon.
Today, commercial flights are like taking a bus ride. Ordinary. Common place. Mundane.
It's too bad, for many people, the excitement of flight has been lost.
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