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The United States used airplanes to deliver mail and
this means of transportation was more popular than
passenger air travel. By 1935 there were almost 29,000
miles of regular airmail routes
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In 2002 Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport ranked
as the world's busiest airport, with nearly 77 million
passengers handled--that's more than 210 thousand
passengers per day.
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- In
1976 the Concorde took to the airways and crossed
the Atlantic in three hours.
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- In
1947 Chuck Yeager became the first pilot to exceed
the speed of sound.
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- In
1987, for the first time, airplanes carried more than
1 billion passengers worldwide.
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This
information was taken from Encarta
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