Airplane Humans cannot travel long distances by their own. To be fair, we can walk, but it would take a time that no one in our society is willing to spend. To fulfill our need to move from place to place, some extraordinary people have developed transportation vehicles that can led us anywhere. Bicycles, automobiles and airplanes are examples of that and this text will explore latter one regarding how it has changed people’s live through its history. The airplane’s major quality is that people from one place to other in the shortest period of time possible. Someone born in the 21th century can get to know places really far from where they were born, places that their ancestors could only be a little familiar by reading books. Before the invention of this main of transportation, people needed to spend months in a ship to go from Portugal to Brazil, for example. Now the connection Rio-Lisbon only takes seven hours. That is the magic of airplanes. However, its impact on people’s life is not only positive. Even though most of the time it is used to transport people to where they want to be, airplanes are also used as war machines in war confronts. It is safe to say that the world war one was so massive and destructive partially because of the power of bomb dropping and shooting provided by airplanes. Given this points, it is obvious that the airplane’s invention made a great impact on how the world thinks transportation in contemporary life. As any other machine and artefact made by humans, it can be used for good purposes or bad ones, but in general, it has improved lives.