[JKCalhoun]

Airplanes, helicopters ... they seem to fight gravity, somehow not meant to fly, but succeeding nonetheless by overwhelming gravity almost violently with sheer horsepower.

Hot air balloons, gliders, airships seem much more casual. Not so much fighting with gravity as making a kind of gentleman's agreement with it.

I think that's why we might romanticize them. It is certainly a big reason I do.