aviation history

You’ve just boarded your aircraft and maybe you’re feeling a little smug because you already know so much stuff, like why planes still have ashtrays (even though smoking on planes …

The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of Florida. At more than 4,300 square miles, it’s deemed the largest subtropical wilderness in the United …

I’ve always liked numbers. Numbers and statistics. I was the kid who would count things, just for the sake of counting them (as Halloween and Christmas approached, if we were …

When you get down to basics, airports are merely part of the process of getting someone from Point A to Point B. However, in the effort of fairness, some airports …

In October 1982, EPCOT Center opened at Walt Disney World in Orlando, heralding a new chapter that would begin Orlando’s journey to becoming the Theme Park Capital of the World. …

During “the golden age of flying,” the U.S. had 3 iconic airlines among others: Eastern Air Lines, Trans World Airlines (TWA) and Pan American World Airways (Pan Am). They were …