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Wright Brothers first powered flight
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Started the first scheduled air service
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faster was to get mail
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The US postal service did there first night flying experiment.
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The Federal government passed an act that allowed safety for Air Traffic because there was in increase in speed and traffic which was dangerous
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First Air Traffic Controller hired
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with a expansion of Air Traffic commercial flights the need for Controllers increased.
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prevent clusters of air traffic
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About 11,000 Air traffic controllers demanded higher pay,updated equipment, and shorter hours.President Ronald Reagan fired all of them.
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The FAA saw that the equipment was a problem when they kept having power outages and computer failures so they passed this bill which allowed funding for new equipment
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Air Traffic Controllers were one of the first to know about the attack. Air Traffic controllers had to guide every plane in America to land as 9-11 was in the process
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There are more than 15,000 well trained controllers today that guide over 60 million planes a year and 700 million passengers. This is one of the most stressful jobs because you are responsible for thousands of peoples lives
