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A Little Trainer’s Legacy

technological leaps in aircraft design and performance recast the nature of air warfare. The relentless process of technical refinement and manufacturing produced advances like jet engines, pressurized cabins, radar, computers, rocket propulsion, synthetic rubber, and the Norden bombsite—too many

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