Humans didn’t evolve to fly. We can walk upright, but can we fly? No. Yet thanks to our evolved brains that can come up with innovative solutions to life’s demands, we now can fly — in machines, of course, but we’re still technically flying.
The pandemic sharply curtailed air travel, and it still hasn’t completely recovered, but according to a Gallup poll taken in 2015 (well before the pandemic), just under half of Americans had flown commercially at least once that year.
