these guys used to be daring adventurers with goggles and swag and now the pilots have to wear a button down and the airlines squeeze every penny out of you and every drop of fun or joy or magic or adventure out of the experience.
in the 20s it was a great adventure! in the 60s people wore suits and got proper meals! now we just get xrayed and told we can’t bring in water! i love starting my vacation being treated as a terrorist!
I think I actually understated how much more dangerous it was then because the chart I was looking at stopped a couple of decades ago. I found a more recent study and it’s more like 1 death per 7.9 million boardings currently, versus 1 death per 350,000 boardings (!) from 1968-1977.
Nice, i’m not surprised but it’s still hella impressive. Aeronautics is truly outstanding engineering nowadays.
Still i think i would definitively take the risk to try a 70’ plane once, for the experience. Like i said it would probably be way safer than regularly using a car. But i get your point, it really was different back then.
Same 70’s era flying sounds nice, less like packing people into sardine cans