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Skyward with LUV

Odds of brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright constructing, then flying, the world’s first powered aircraft in 1903--and Southwest Airlines’ founding what would become one of the world’s leading airlines 64 years laterwere about the same.Most figured the odds to be slim and none.And most were wrong.While the Wrights’ contraption was aloft for only 59 seconds with a flight measuring just 852 feet, it was a beginning, as was SWA’s start-up with leased aircraft, stiff competition, borrowed money and unfettered dreams.Perhaps the chief of dreamers was SWA co-founder Herb Kelleher, as was eventual SWA President Colleen Barrett, first woman president of ...

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