TAT, which became TWA, occasionally showed cartoons and newsreels aboard a 9-hour flights from Columbus, OH, to Waynoka, OK, in 1929 In early commercial planes the windows could be opened, but passengers were instructed not to use them as wastebaskets Beginning in 1937 many airports sold flight insurance at $0.25 …

Florida is not the southernmost state – Hawaii is Clearwater, Florida, has the highest rate of lightening strikes per capita in the U.S. On January 1, 1914, the world’s first scheduled passenger service airline flight went from St. Petersburg’s downtown yacht basin to Tampa Gatorade was named for the University …

The Royalist Hotel in Ston on the Wold, dating from 947 A.D., claims to be England’s oldest inn The Mayfair Hotel in St. Louis is credited with being the first property to place chocolates on guest pillows at night In 1983, Vingcard invented the optical electronic key card now used …