Bah, there's a report of an earlier one in Ovid's Metamorphoses from 8 CE.
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Bah, there's a report of an earlier one in Ovid's Metamorphoses from 8 CE.
Surprisingly, the article does not mention that Selfridge field in Michigan is named after Lieutenant Selfridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfridge_Air_National_Guard_B....
When KLM started flying Amsterdam-Batavia in the 1930s it was dangerous but people preferred it to spending weeks on a ship.