1950s: The Jump-to-Jets Decade

The 1950s could arguably lay claim to being the ``Golden Age of Aerospace,'' a decade that saw a surge in development of commercial, military and general aviation aircraft, and ushered in the space age. Swept-wing jet aircraft revolutionized both civil and military aviation, the first manmade...

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