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BrandPost: Flash Costs Less Than Disk (Yes, Really!)

Near the end of World War II, Allied flight crews saw the end of an era. Propeller-driven aircraft like the P-51 Mustang and Spitfire were fast, but in 1945 they encountered the Me-262 Schwalbe jet fighter.The jet-powered Messerschmitt was 100 mph faster than the fastest propellor planes, and it could both outrun and out-climb Allied aircraft. A propeller is bound by physical laws: It can only spin so fast.More expensive jet engines weren’t constrained by the same physical limitations, intr
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