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IT is just over forty years since the Wright Brothers flew at Dayton and fulfilled a dream that man had cherished throughout the ages. During the last three months of 1945, in large-scale trooping operations following the end of the Second World War, R.A.F. Transport Command flew 20,000 men back to England from the Far East ; while American Transport Command in the summer of 1945 flew 5,000-6,000 men a month across the Atlantic. These few sentences give the measure of aeronautical progress, impressive by any standard.
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LOCKSPEISER, B. PROGRESS IN AERONAUTICS. Nature 157, 787–792 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157787a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157787a0