Word: breakin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea with high Air Corps brass. The result was the famous Question Mark flight of 1929, in which Quesada and future bannerline Air Force Generals Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz and Ira Eaker participated. Refueled by a second plane, Question Mark, an Army Fokker monoplane, stayed aloft for a record-breakin 6½ days, and it made aviation history: in-flight refueling has long been an essential technique of the U.S. Air Force...