Juan Trippe Flying Higher Than The Rest Juan Trippe is not a well know figure as he probably should be for creating airplane travel. Tripp created it affordable to the average person and created the first airline industry. Juan Trippe's fractionation with planes all started at the Curtiss Flying School in Miami. That same year Juan left there to become a navy bomber. Trippe never saw any action and returned to Yale. To start the …showed first 75 words of 331 total…

…showed last 75 words of 331 total…burning too much fuel and somebody needed to make bigger planes. He pinned Boeing and Douglas on each other to build the Boeing 707, which filled more seats with better gas mileage. By the 1960's airport were booming and needed a bigger jet to fly people on so he drew the planes to the plane we refuel to as the Boeing 747. Trippe died in 1981 but his visions of air travel will live on with us forever.