Jun 29 2011 10:26 pm
Posted by Kevin Persaud under ADMIN ONLY - featured,June 30 Assignment
Soaring the Skies in the 1920s
Airplanes started out as a relatively new invention in the earl 1920s. However the quickly caught on later in the decade. Airmail began to take flight in 1919 and 1920 when planes travelling started to travel from New York and Washington DC. Since air travel cut down the time from weeks to just a few days, it quickly became popular. Later in the 1920s, as planes became more reliable and well built, passenger planes started to make flights across the US. Today we see airplanes as a normal means of transportation that is almost essential to our everyday lives, while back in the 1920s airplanes were revolutionary.
4 Responses to “Soaring the Skies in the 1920s”
rodrigo.rodriguez on 07 Jul 2011 at 2:32 am #
I strongly agree with your comment on how planes were revolutionary in the 1920’s. One thing that made it revolutionary was the the Federal Government saw air planes as a huge Business opportunity to cut down on time like you briefly mentioned with air mail. Cutting down the time of a letter from weeks to just days. Also as the century went on and planes did get more reliable, the price of flying in these “Air Ships” also became affordable to the middle class, compared to the early 1920’s that only the upper class were able to afford such services. Nevertheless airplanes revolutionized the way we live now. We use planes for, Deliveries, travel, war. Very importantly many companies such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz whom started out by engineering airplane engines now are global leaders in the manufacturing of premium cars.