‘Nowadays we travel to all parts of the globe, often within a day and often without changing planes,’ says Martin Fone, as he muses on the birth of commercial air travel exactly 70 years ago.
It was New Year’s Day, 1914. A crowd of 3,000 spectators, having paraded through the streets of St Petersburg in Florida to the accompaniment of what the local newspaper described as an Italian band, gathered at the waterfront. At an impromptu auction a former mayor, Abram C…
