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Originally Posted by Monahammer
This is a great example of the ridiculous aerospace tech development curve we saw in the era right after the first crash retrieval program has been speculated (the first speculated being the fascist italy retrieval in the early 30s).
We went from the kitty hawk in 1903 to the Nighthawk in 1981. 78 years between never flying to flying hyper advanced stealth fighters.
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Sure, but you can logically follow the tech advances through the decades from test programs to aircraft advancement. Looking at it from that perspective, there is no year where so much changes, or one particularly huge advancement shows up that has no predecessor or anything remotely similar, that you could point at and say "well that's unusual, where did that come from?". Or do you have a specific example? I've had an interest in aircraft, flight, and aerial war history for decades and I can't think of any specific one, can you?