Both football and airplanes are deeply ingrained in the American psyche. But I don’t have to tell you this—look at the Super Bowl that took place just a couple of weeks ago. While the game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots drew the smallest crowd since 2009, there were still about 103.4 [...]
On September 19, 1783, a duck, a sheep, and a rooster all made history as the first passengers to ever travel through the air in a balloon. While their names didn’t go down in the history books, the names of the balloon’s inventors certainly did. The Montgolfier Brothers Beginning in France during the late 18th [...]
The evolution of Santa alongside the evolution of early flight ‘Twas the week before Christmas and some of us were wondering—hey, if Santa could fly for all this time, where was he when the rest of us were learning to fly? A man by any other name would still be jolly Santa Claus. Saint Nicholas. [...]
