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What puts me in awe of things like flight isn't the act itself, but the brilliance of the people who designed it to work. I look at the aerodynamic shape of an airfoil and think "we did that...humans".
To be fair, we sorta knew it was possible because birds. I think it's more impressive when we don't know what can happen, like breaking the sound barrier or putting people in space.