The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read.
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.
You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.
Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better world. Service and dress reflected the more formal era, but no one expected air travel to be comfortable. It was amazing just to have hot food above the clouds.
The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.
I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.
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