Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
—Mahatma Gandhi
I’ve always been fascinated by airplanes. When I was a kid, I wanted to become a pilot and travel around the world. Maybe it’s the excitement of traveling to a new place or the challenge of figuring out how a complex system works. Or maybe it was both.
While I was waiting to board my flight on the Thanksgiving of 2008, I couldn’t help but wonder how complex the whole flight travel experience is. If you’ve been on a commercial flight before, you know what I’m ...
