stackyFACTSFancy instrument panels simply didn't exist. Early navigation relied entirely on a pilot leaning out of the cockpit, looking at a specific river or uniquely shaped barn, and desperately hoping they weren't lost.
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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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