Today is the 113th anniversary of the first successful flight by the Wright Brothers (Wikipedia).
Where should this be celebrated? The North Carolina beaches are not at their best this time of year and they haven’t been profoundly changed by the flourishing of aviation.
Readers: What part of the world has benefited the most from aviation? My personal nomination is Las Vegas (also not a bad place to be in December!). During a trip earlier this year I learned that 80-90 percent of customers for helicopter tours are foreign visitors (and indeed the folks with whom I shared a tour were from China and the UK; the pilot was a former student of mine, a Swiss citizen who became an instructor at our flight school). If there were no commercial airline service to Vegas, it would be a tiny satellite of Los Angeles, right?
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