Air Traffic Has Been Growing Rapidly for the Last 60 Years (IMAGE)

University of South Carolina

Air Traffic Has Been Growing Rapidly for the Last 60 Years

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The number of people travelling by air has grown from 46 million passengers in 1956 to 3 billion in 2016. Air travel is projected to hit at least 7.2 billion passengers and millions of drones by 2035.

Credit

Aerospace America and the Federal Aviation Administration.

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With credit to University of South Carolina, College of Engineering and Computing.

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