Executive Producer Mickey Markoff of the Hyundai Air and Sea Show talks aviation through the decades. This article was previously posted on Mickey Markoff ’s LiveJournal . There are a few notable discoveries and inventions in human history that have irrevocably changed the course of humanity. The invention of the wheel was an important discovery that transformed transport and laid the building blocks for what would later inform mankind’s first automobile. As the decades turned into centuries, discovery after discovery moved the meter forward, inching inventions further, expanding our reach of what we thought possible. It was not long ago that humankind found land travel as we know it today improbable, let alone air travel. The Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903 yet again transformed our understanding of travel, despite the event only lasting a few seconds. Fast forward a century, and a mere twelve second flight trial paved the way for transcontinental flights that can last for h