Word: contrails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhere, some time after MIG alley, the change came. For years the U.S. had glimpsed promises of a new U.S. Air Force in the making: a solitary jet streaking the far sky with a white contrail, reports of victorious dogfights between U.S. Sabre jets and the MIG-15 in Korea, a thundering atomic-bomb test or the anguished plea of an Air Force spokesman in Washington for more funds. But the Air Force had lacked that elusive quality that glues the Army, Navy and Marine Corps into cohesive units. Then, by the beginning of this year, it was suddenly clear...