Tucker, I guess you’re right,
I have an interest in planes. I’m not very knowledgeable on them, but there has always been a degree of fascination with them. There is an SR-71 here at the local airzoo, we have a close by ANG base that housed a squadron of A-10’s, which are an awesome sight to see flying over head. Went to Kittyhawk, to see the Wright brothers museum and first flight on a grass strip, went to the UP to the old K I Sawyer AFB to see a B52, got to see the B1 and several other military aircraft at Nellis AFB while at the dragstrip in Vegas, so yeah...all pretty fascinating stuff!
As far as change in the last 100 yrs. this was on Johnny Carson in 1988. He had a farmer from IL on the show who was 97 and had a few historical events happen in his lifetime that were pretty remarkable.