Flying in the United States Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Flying in the United States
The United States was apioneer of aviation; theFlyerwas famously flown by the Wright Brothers atKill Devil Hills,North Carolinain 1903, becoming airborne with the help of a catapult. While the US initially lost some ground in aviation to Europe, especially France, due to the Wright's business practices and litigious nature, they soon caught back up and by the end of World War II were without a doubt among the leaders in all fields of aviation in no small part due to wartime investment. The years between the two world wars saw the birth of commercial aviation, with the development of the first transatlantic routes. This era gave rise to many of the first commercial airlines, includingPan American World Airways (Pan Am)andTrans World Airlines (TWA), which would re-define commercial air trave
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