Modern pilots don’t get how lucky they have it. Even those aviators who have been flying since before most of us were born were raised on technologies unavailable and often unimaginable to their predecessors. It’s the nature of progress, sure, but it’s easy to forget how far we’ve come in aviation and how fast.
Here’s a short list of eight of the most important aviation technologies in the history of flying, and you might be surprised how early some of them were introduced.
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