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The Jet Engine: No Invention of the Past 85 Years Had a Greater Impact on the World
December 5, 2014 /
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1958 Pan Am inaugurates daily Boeing 707 service across the Atlantic.
Something about the human spirit compels us to go faster and farther. That’s why Howard Hughes spent 1935 risking his life flying experimental planes to break speed barriers and why he took even graver risks in 1938 to fly around the world in record time. Hughes had everything to lose–fame, fortune, beautiful girlfriends, some might say his mind–and yet he needed to know what his machines could do.
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