영어속독<ROFA영어: 25>--AIRPLANES AND AIR TRAVEL

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AIRPLANES AND AIR TRAVEL

 

Orville and Wilbur Wright built the first airplane in 1903. These two brothers knew that their invention was going to change the way people traveled across long distances, but they probably did not know how fast the air travel industry was going to grow.

 

Since the Wright brother's first airplane took off, air travel has grown into one of the most common ways to get from one place to another today. More people travel by air in the United States than any other country in the world. More than 400 million people take a trip by plane every year in the United States. There are many different domestic airplanes there. These airplanes occasionally offer low prices for their tickets, so air travel in the United States can be very cheap when one of the airplanes has a special sale.

 

The oldest airline in the world is KLM. This is the national airline of the Netherlands. KLM has been operating since 1919. Most countries have at least one airline which serves most of the people who fly in that country.

 

The largest airline in history was the national airline of Russia, Aeroflot. The government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was in charge of the air line from 1923 until 1990. This airline had 600, 000 employees, and 20,000 of these employees were men and women who flew the planes. The number of aircraft operated by Aeroflot is unknown, but many people estimate that this airline had a fleet of more than 14,000 airplanes at its peak. Aeroflot flew 139 million passengers in 1990. then in 1991, control of Aeroflot was divided among various private airlines which operated in the USSR, so today Aeroflot is no longer run as a state-controlled airplane. (291 words)

 

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