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Certainly no 20 years in the history of aviation, and probably no 20 years in the future, will show such a succession of basic changes…as did the period of 1948–1968.
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The speaker says that aviation changed more fundamentally between 1948 and 1968 than during any other comparable twenty-year period. They also predict that neither an earlier twenty years nor the next twenty years will show such a rapid sequence of basic changes. The point is that this period was unusually transformative, not merely busy or productive.
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