Honestly I am quite happy with better air travel security and safety, and not particularly interested in going back to a time when any random Greek anarchist assholes or PLA or whatever are stabbing flight attendants or sticking bombs on Pan Am flights

You sound too young to remember, so read up a little.

Here’s something that popped up on the first page of results

smithsonianmag.com/…/a-brief-history-of-airplane-…