A viewer places Churchill's early aviation enthusiasm against a very short technological timeline. Tony Jannus made the first scheduled airline flight between St. Petersburg and Tampa in a Benoist flying boat on 1 January 1914, then later became a Curtiss test pilot and trained Russian pilots during the First World War. The comment also points to surviving amphibious ramps near the route as physical traces of those early operations. The answer agrees that this context makes institutional support for aviation in 1913-15 easier to judge.
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Tony Jannus and the first scheduled airline service
A compact timeline links Tony Jannus, the first scheduled airline service, and later wartime pilot training.