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Old 2nd May 2014, 23:14
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Originally Posted by Vendee
I still find it mind blowing that there was only 66 years between Orville Wright's first powered flight and Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon. The pace of development seems to have slowed since then.
Take WW1, WW2 and the Cold War/Space Race out of our history and we'd probably still be flying around in biplanes..
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