Considered an unattainable dream, flying made the human civilization look at the sky with a big desire in their eyes. Since the antiquity, people invented the strangest machines just to get up in the air. The first proper airplane was invented in the early twentieth century by Traian Vuia, a Romanian inventor. Back then, the planes were neither quick, spacious or safe and demanded a lot of courage an skill to fly them . Thankfully, they got better and better by the years and right now we can say that flying is the safest way of transportation.
In this article you can see a tribute to the daring pilots in 30 superb photos of vintage airplanes.