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Taking FlightIf forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain - Mike Harding, The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac You define a good flight by the negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, - Paul Theroux There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane. - Henry Kissinger Past:
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I would like to express my gratitude to United Airlines, whose May issue of their inflight magazine, Hemispheres, provided me with a lot of information on the history of commercial airlines - at least in the US. I also hope many people reading this buy a copy of Michael Taylor's excellent book The World's Strangest Aircraft: A Collection of Weird and Wonderful Flying Machines. The book has more stuff than I included here and is well worth a read. Why not check it out?
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