1/🧵 Many of us will head to Split for HiveFest in September. Most of us by plane. Flying is affordable, fast, and convenient.
1/🧵 Many of us will head to Split for HiveFest in September. Most of us by plane. Flying is affordable, fast, and convenient.
2/🧵 Being a frequent flier myself, I don’t think much about it – I board the aircraft in one place and leave it a few hours later, a few thousand kilometers away. It’s safe, actually the safest means of transportation.
3/🧵 But those are the planes of today. Some hundred years ago, aircraft looked more like toys. Let me take you to the Kbely Aviation Museum in Prague, across the oldest exhibits. I genuinely admire the people who flew on them – it was rather bold.
4/🧵 I mentioned the place a while ago when I sampled beers in the local brewery, spotting the modern counterparts of the exhibits taking off from the small civil airport nearby. Feel free to revisit that post.
5/🧵 And for now, let’s enter the hangar exhibiting the 1918-1924 Czechoslovak Air Force, the first generation of military aircraft of a newborn country. Being neither a history buff nor an aviation expert, I had to make notes while roaming the hangar.
See a dozen of old crafts in my recent post: https://inleo.io/@godfish/when-aircraft-looked-like-toys-g4h