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Landing to refill tanks takes far too long when a forest is currently a blazing inferno. These insane amphibious planes skim the surface of a nearby lake at…
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Tony Jannus piloted the world's very first scheduled commercial airline flight in 1914, transporting a single paying passenger across Tampa Bay in a trip that…
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Water gets extremely sticky at high speeds, acting like a giant suction cup. To avoid being permanently glued to the lake, seaplane floats feature a sharp…
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Early commercial aviation was roughly ten percent crude engineering and ninety percent wildly suicidal acrobatics. In 1919, while perilously crossing the…
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Many passengers assume the co-pilot is just a highly trained assistant. What is the actual reality of the cockpit?
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Early commercial pilots were so deeply terrified of the dark that they just landed at sunset. Passengers would simply sleep in a local hotel and wait for…
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