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Aviation History
The history of aviation has extended over more than two thousand years, from the earliest forms of aviation, kites and attempts at tower jumping, to supersonic, and hypersonic flight by powered, heavier-than-air jets.
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Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.
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We were flying to Brisbane via Kuala Lumpur, a journey of around fifteen hours, including the brief transit stop. Australia was a long way from anywhere yet modern aviation had made travel so convenient and affordable that no one really thought of it as difficult or hazardous anymore. Today’s travel woes centered around overcoming jet lag or figuring out your duty-free limits. I tried to imagine life in the eighteenth century when the First Fleet made the long and arduous sea voyage from Great B
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― Red Earth Diaries: A Migrant Couple's Backpacking Adventure in Australia
― Red Earth Diaries: A Migrant Couple's Backpacking Adventure in Australia

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