During a second test flight, it got into the air, hit 62 mph, then plunged straight into the water, destroying the plane. However, according to Smithsonian Magazine , there was only one unexpected ...

“Regular dally flying passenger service back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean,” the Wilmington Evening Journal announced on Feb. 9, 1923, “will be an accomplished fact in 1926!

Strong jet streams across the Atlantic are seeing passenger airplanes knock more than an hour off their flight times, as they hit speeds of 761 mph – the speed of sound. However, they’re not ...