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Remote control planes. Photo Luka Kauzlaric / The Observer
Remote control planes. Photo Luka Kauzlaric / The Observer
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NiE UP UP and Away

29th Nov 2013 12:00 PM

We take the sight of planes crisscrossing the sky for granted but it is only a recent phenomenon in human history. For thousands of years, only birds took wing and all man could do was dream of one ¬day taking to the skies.

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