💡 Trivia The first commercial passenger flight lasted only 23 minutes

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Bet you didn’t know this piece of airplane trivia: In 1914, Abram Pheil ρáíd $400 (which would be $12,624.20 today) for a 23-minute plane ride. The Florida flight flew between St. Petersburg and Tampa, where just 21 miles of water separate the cities.

Pheil, a former mayor of St. Petersburg, and the pilot, Tony Jannus, were the only passengers.
This momentous flight paved the way for air travel as we know it.

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