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for no commercial airlines fatalities last year. here s the tweet. since taking office i ve been strict on commercial aviation. good news there were zero deaths in 2017, the bestnd safest year on record. what he didn t mention was if wassa you will most been nine years since the latest fatal domestic airline crash in the u.s. joining me myles o brien. should the president be taking any kind of credit here? because the numbers he s talking about are global numbers for all around the world, as i understand it. i think in a word, anderson, the answer is no, there is no individual on the planet. even if there was one in charge of the global aviation enterprise who can take credit for this remarkable record? this is the work of thousands of people currently and generations of them really since 1903. aviation is all about improving safety based on bad events. they say the rules are written in blood and, frankly, the president insults those who work long and hard and who over the
commercial fatalities last year globally. since taking office i ve been strict on commercial aviation. good news it was just reported there were zero deaths in 2017. the best and safest year on record. he didn t mention that it s been nine years since the latest fatal domestic crash in the u.s. joining us is miles o brien. should the president be taking any credit here because the numbers he s talking about are global number for all around the world as i understand it? in a word, the answer is no. there is no individual on the planet, even if there was one in charge of the global aviation enterprise who can take credit for this remarkable record. this is the work of thousands of people currently and generations of them since 1903. aviation is all about improving safety based on bad event. the rule are written in blood. frankly the president insults those who work long and hard and
first flew their primitive airplane on the north carolina coast in december 1903, but for the next decade new american aviation designs barely got off the ground. world war i broke out in 1914, armies on both sides saw the utility of the airplane, first for conducting reconnaissance flights and ultimately for use as a weapon. but most of the aircraft flown in the war were of european design. when america entered the war,er its first fighter pilots like famous ace eddie rickenbacker flew airplanes designed and built in france.s by the time world war ii broke out, america s aviation designers had caught up with and even surpassed the aircraft of europe and asia. the north american p51 mustang is widely considered the best fighter of the second world war, powerful, fast and nimble.
jon: america is the birthplace of many things, including aviation. orville and wilbur wright first flew their heavier than airr craft in 1903. some believe gustav whitehead actually achieved it earlier. either way, america was first and when it comes to military aircraft, the wright brothers built the right military fire of 1909, giving the world its first military plane. since those fragile early designs first took to the skies, aircraft design evolved in leaps and bounds, all leading up tosi the aircraft of the future, america s f-35. here s a look back at theth century of flight that brings us to this to this state-of-the-art fighter. the first powered flight by the brothers orville and wilbur wright. the birth of aviation at kitty hawk, north carolina.. jon: the wright brothers