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# There are instruments indicating air speed and altitude, now. # The materials of construction have changed to metals from wood, paper, and fabric. # Engines are more efficient, now. # They can fly longer, and carry more fuel now. # They can fly faster, now. # They can fly higher, now. # They can carry more passengers, now. # They can land on water or ice, now. # Some of them can can go faster than the speed of sound, now. # They generally employ lots more people, now.

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