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In 1783, the French Montgolfier brothers launched a hot air balloon and flew just over a mile. The era of human aviation had begun.

Philippine Airlines (PAL), known as Philippine Air Lines until 1970, is the flag carrier of the Philippines. Headquartered at the PNB Financial Center in Pasay, the airline was founded in 1941 and is the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia.

Air traffic control’s primary purpose is to keep pilots and their planes away from one another. Otherwise, you know ... boom.

Pilots rely on airspeed indicators to understand how fast the plane is moving. The device may register speed in knots or MPH.

Biplanes are planes with two sets of wings. They are unmistakable as they soar through skies filled mostly with planes that have just one set of wings.

Several other inventors created variants of aircraft into flight before the Wright brothers. But thanks to their 1903 efforts, Orville and Wilbur really were the first to put a heaver-than-air, controlled plane into action.

Control towers are the tall towers at airstrips across the world. There, air traffic controllers can better see the planes that they help guide in and out of the airport.

General aviation is an overarching term referring to all unscheduled, civil flights. It can refer to pilots out joyriding, hang gliders zooming from clifftops, or non-airline commercial air traffic.

The airfoil refers to the shape of the plane’s wings. As airfoils move through air (or any other fluid), they begin generating the forces necessary for flight.

As airfoils move through a fluid, like air, they generate a force called lift. Lift helps planes get off the ground.