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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Introduction to aviation

Aviation invloves activities that relate to flying devices created, generally known as aircraft. Aviation also encompasses the organizations and regulating bodies as well as the personnel related within the operation of the aircraft and the industries involved in airplane manufacture, development, and design

About Aviation

With the surplus of planes left after World War I, thousands of military planes were converted to civilian use. In 1919, bombers were being converted in Europe to form over twenty small new airlines. The first regular international airline service created by aviation sources started by one of those. The company setup by Henry and Maurice Farman used old Farman bombers through aviation development to make weekly flights from Paris and Brussels.

By 1917, there were seventeen regulary operating airlines because of aviation development, The aviation could be seen in the following countries, in Europe, Africa, Austrailia, and South America. Some airlines from that era that are still operating from this aviation development are: Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM),SABENA World Airlines, Lufthansa, and Qantas.In the '20s American aviation was quite slow. There were a few small airlines, from aviation development, but they often failed after only a few months of service. Americans viewed air travel as a dangerous sport (because aviation findings were not up to speed), not a safe means of transportation.

By the 1920's governments started to form national airlines through combining a few private airlines. One such case is the British government who formed Imperial Airways.

Aviation and airmail

By 1917, the U.S. government felt it had seen enough progress in the development of planes to warrant something totally new, air mail. That year, Congress appropriated $100,000 for an experimental airmail service that was to be conducted jointly by the Army and the Post Office between Washington and New York, with an intermediate stop in Philadelphia. The first flight left Belmont Park, Long Island, for Philadelphia on May 14, 1918, and the next day continued on to Washington where it was met by President Woodrow Wilson.

With a large number of war-surplus aircraft in hand, the Post Office almost immediately set its sights on a far more ambitious goal, which was transcontinental air service. It opened the first segment, between Chicago and Cleveland, on May 15, 1919, and completed the service on Sept. 8, 1920, when the most difficult part of the route, the Rocky Mountains, was spanned. Airplanes still could not fly at night when the service first began, so the mail was handed off to trains at the end of each day. Nonetheless, by using airplanes the Post Office was able to shave 22 hours off coast-to- coast mail deliveries.

CONCLUSION

Aviation is a major contrinutor to development, it introduced airmail, who could have ever thought people could create machinery that can fly.