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| | Chapter 8: The Rise of Civil Aviation to 1970 |
 | | The American aviator, C.P. Rogers, flew across the Union from New York to Los Angeles in 1911, but the journey took him seven weeks and he had eighty stops and five major crashes on the way, for a trip that could be done in safety and comfort by train in five days. |
 | | Wireless, indeed, was becoming an important part of aircraft control, and the relationship between the wireless and the aviation industry in the twentieth century was similar to that between the railway and the telegraph in the nineteenth. |
 | | The new international terminal opened at Mascot in 1970 proved to be inadequate almost as soon as it was completed once 747s started operating, demonstrating that the Department, for all its emphasis on planning, could scarcely cope with the growth in traffic brought by the jet age. |
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