1. In your opinion, what was the most
significant impact aviation had on our world in the first one hundred years of
flight?
Aviation has made a lot of impact on our world. Since its “official”
start with the Wright brothers, it has undergone many changes. I think that the
most significant impact is in allowing people from other countries to travel
across the world. This allowed for the people of the world as a whole to
recognize each other as a people group. It built cultural bridges across the
world. Whereas it would be a long boat ride of many days for one to travel from
the Americas to Europe, commercial flight allowed for people to travel that
distance in under a day. Worldwide travel was now a real possibility and all of
the different languages and cultures of people could come together and have a
better understanding of each other. It has allowed for missionaries to travel
easier to spread the views of their faith, as well as politicians and
ambassadors to visit different countries to attempt to bring about diplomatic
relations with each other.
2. What do you think the future holds for
aviation in the twenty-first century?
The future of flight and aviation is bright. Mankind made
such a great leap during the first one hundred years of flight; it can only
keep escalating throughout the next one hundred years. There is still quite a
bit of research being done on how to make planes be lighter in weight and have
increased speeds. Other types of research is more specialized, such as bringing
about better navigational and weapons systems in fighter planes and using cloaking
devices. While I see a lot of future in aviation for warfare, I hope that there
will be a future in domestic flights as well. Over the past few years, many
commercial flights have been lost or crashed due to faulty systems and
security. I hope that precautions can be made in the future to prevent those occurrences
from happening and that people can fly safely from one to place to another
throughout the world, without fear of not making it to their destination.
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