Human Flight is Primitive
Retrospective
6 min readMay 20, 2024
There, I said it… What we call the miracle of human flight is primitive.
Don’t get me wrong we have managed to accomplish a lot in our short aviation and aerospace history. We can fly at unimaginable speeds in comfort without needing any protective clothing or machines to help us breathe. We have even produced airplanes that can technically leave Earth and travel in low…