{"id":1891,"date":"2013-12-05T14:57:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T19:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2013-12-10T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T14:23:08","slug":"celebrating-100-years-of-commercial-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/fantasy-of-flight\/celebrating-100-years-of-commercial-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the 100th Year Of Commercial Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we here at Fantasy of Flight toil away on the Benoist reproduction, our friends at Flight 2014, Inc. are busy planning a number of exciting events to celebrate the Centennial Anniversary of the World\u2019s First Airline. Flight 2014, Inc. is made up of three founding organizations including the Florida Aviation Historical Society, the St. Petersburg Museum of History, and the Tony Jannus Distinguished Aviation Society. Here is just a small sample of what you can expect:<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Year\u2019s Eve, 12\/31\/2013<\/strong><br \/>\nThe City of St. Petersburg is dedicating its annual \u201cFirst Night\u201d Celebration to the First Airline (\u201cFirst Night, First Flight\u201d). Headquarters for Flight 2014 will be the History Museum on the Waterfront. Balsa wood airboat gliders will be given to the first 500 young people. Kermit Weeks will speak at 8PM. An auction will be held for two round-trip tickets courtesy of Southwest Airlines. Stamp Collectors can get a special First Airline cancellation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Year\u2019s Day Re-enactment, 01\/01\/2014<\/strong><br \/>\nAt 10:00 AM, precisely 100 years after Tony Jannus\u2019 historic flight, founder and CEO of Fantasy of Flight, Kermit Weeks, plans to fly his full scale reproduction of the original.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airlinecentennial.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.airlinecentennial.org<\/a> for a complete list of events and to learn more about the First Commercial Flight.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Airboat Line to Tampa will be only a forerunner of great activity along these lines in the near future\u2026what was impossible yesterday is an accomplishment of today\u2014while tomorrow heralds the unbelievable.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; Percy Fansler, St. Petersburg &#8211; Tampa Airboat Line, 1914<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we here at Fantasy of Flight toil away on the Benoist reproduction, our friends at Flight 2014, Inc. are busy planning a number of exciting events to celebrate the Centennial Anniversary of the World\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy-of-flight","celebrating-100-years-of-commercial-flight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6276,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/6276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}