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*President Eisenhower accepted a recommendation from his special assistant (and later first FAA administrator) E. R. Quesada to build Washington, D.C.'s second airport in Chantilly, Va. Construction was to begin immediately. *Metal rotor blades to replace the wooden blades on the Bell 47 were to be...

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