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Humanity's way of saying gravity is more of a suggestion.
means The science and practice of designing, building, and flying aircraft.
from From French aviation, built from Latin avis, 'bird,' with the -ation suffix of action and process. The word was coined in the mid-1800s by a French pioneer imagining winged flight, decades before anyone actually got off the ground — so the term for flying existed well before the flying did.
- first powered flight
- Wright brothers, 1903, lasted 12 seconds
- black box color
- actually bright orange, not black
- safest transport
- statistically safer per mile than walking
- jet fuel
- basically refined kerosene, same family as lamp oil