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Wright Brothers
Wright Brothers first powered flight
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Thomas Benoist
Started the first scheduled air service -
Transcontinental Airmail service
faster was to get mail -
US POSTAL SERVICE OVERNIGHT MAIL SERVICE
The US postal service did there first night flying experiment. -
Air Commerce Act
The Federal government passed an act that allowed safety for Air Traffic because there was in increase in speed and traffic which was dangerous -
Archie W. League
First Air Traffic Controller hired -
More Coordination and tracking of flights
with a expansion of Air Traffic commercial flights the need for Controllers increased. -
FAA established Prototype Central Flow
prevent clusters of air traffic -
Air Traffic controller strike
About 11,000 Air traffic controllers demanded higher pay,updated equipment, and shorter hours.President Ronald Reagan fired all of them. -
FAA Reform Translation
The FAA saw that the equipment was a problem when they kept having power outages and computer failures so they passed this bill which allowed funding for new equipment -
9-11
Air Traffic Controllers were one of the first to know about the attack. Air Traffic controllers had to guide every plane in America to land as 9-11 was in the process -
2002- Today
There are more than 15,000 well trained controllers today that guide over 60 million planes a year and 700 million passengers. This is one of the most stressful jobs because you are responsible for thousands of peoples lives
