This collection of entries is from December 17, 2003.
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.