Pheil, who made the 18-mile trip in 23 minutes, a considerable improvement over the two-hour trip by boat.

Thomas Benoist, an auto parts maker, decided to build such a flying boat, or seaplane, for a service across Tampa Bay called the St. Glenn Curtiss had designed a plane that could take off and land on water and thus could be built larger than any plane to date,Д«ecause it did not need the heavy undercarriage required for landing on hard ground. The first scheduled air service began in Florida on January 1, 1914. When he flew with Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk later that year. Charles Furnas became the first American airplane passenger The first person to fly as a passenger was Leon Delagrange, who rode with French pilot Henri Farman from a meadow outside of Paris in 1908. Prior to that, people had flown only in balloons and gliders. On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright capped four years of research and design efforts with a 120-foot, 12-second flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina - the first powered flight in a Charles Furnas became the first American airplane passenger when he flew with Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk later that year. On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright capped four years of research and design efforts with a 120-foot, 12-second flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina - the first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine.

Airmail act of 1925