How airplane travel was invented

Date Submitted: 12/26/2002 01:57:17
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 1 pages (331 words)
Juan Trippe Flying Higher Than The Rest Juan Trippe is not a well know figure as he probably should be for creating airplane travel. Tripp created it affordable to the average person and created the first airline industry. Juan Trippe's fractionation with planes all started at the Curtiss Flying School in Miami. That same year Juan left there to become a navy bomber. Trippe never saw any action and returned to Yale. To start the …
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…burning too much fuel and somebody needed to make bigger planes. He pinned Boeing and Douglas on each other to build the Boeing 707, which filled more seats with better gas mileage. By the 1960's airport were booming and needed a bigger jet to fly people on so he drew the planes to the plane we refuel to as the Boeing 747. Trippe died in 1981 but his visions of air travel will live on with us forever.
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