John C Slimick <slimick+@pitt.edu> wrote:
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| For those who remember, we once had a spectator sport in this country
| called "air races" which were immensely popular, until after the second
| world war when the USAF had the technology to win every speed race,
| every time. The air races proceeded to go into oblivion by the midfifties.
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And recovered again. Last time I looked, the Reno Air Race
(one of the "biggies") was alive & well!
-Rob
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