Abstract This chapter recounts the history of commercial aircraft from the open cockpit WWI surplus aircraft delivering airmail to the wide-body aircraft that opened up air travel during the 1970s. The chapter introduces the vital system improvements that allowed air travelers to fly comfortably above weather and in pressurized comfort. It introduced some of the systems that allowed commercial air travel to occur at Mach 0.85 or faster.


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