In December 17,1903,Wilbur Wright and Orville capped for four years of research and design attempt. At Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with a 120- foot, and 12 seconds flight also the first powered flight in a heavier than air machine.Leon Delagrange was the first person to be as a passenger and rode with French pilot Henri Farman from a grassland outside the Paris in year of 1908. Before that people only flown in balloons and gliders, and now Charles Furnas became the first American airplane passenger when he flew with Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk after that.The first scheduled air services began on January 1,1914 at Florida.The plane that could take off both land and water and could be built larger than any plane today was designed by Glenn Curtiss.
Thomas Benoist is an auto parts maker decided to build such as a flying boat,seaplane for service across Tampa Bay called the St.Petersburg.His first passenger was ex- St.Petersburg Mayor A.C. Pheil,who made the 18 mile trip in 23 minutes. The company folded with the end of the winter season after two flights a day four months in operation.
In the world war 1,other early flights were headline events but commercial aviation was very slow to get onto with the general public and most of them who afraid to ride in the new flying machines. The military value of aircraft was quickly recognized and production enlarged significantly to meet the soaring demand for planes from governments on both sides of the Atlantic. Meanwhile,
the war was bad for commercial aviation in several respects.It focused all design and production efforts on building military aircraft. Flying became associated with bombing runs, surveillance and aerial dogfights. Furthermore, there was such a large surplus of planes at the end of the war that the demand for new production was almost extinct in many years. Some European countries, such as Great Britain and France, nurtured commercial aviation by starting air service over the English Channel. The rescue of the U.S. commercial aviation industry following World War I was a government program, but one that had nothing to do with the transportation of people.
