In general the 90s are an oddly forgotten decade. The internet and dotcom booms were so exciting and sucked so much attention, nobody remembers anything else that happened, and sometimes people go around rediscovering 90s things. The 80s are rememembered much more accurately.
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The Corsair had the best stats of any WW2 plane iirc. 11:1 kill ratio. What eventually “retired” the Corsair in Korea was running up against MiG 15. Yes, there was a brief “hybrid war” period with both jet and piston fighters in the air (in WW2 they were too little, too late)
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General principle of a technology being perfected just before it becomes categorically obsolete. Not just tech, everything is like that: culture, politics... The 90s were the decade industrial era was perfected...Just before it ceased to matter because ground rules changed.
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And all this is why the 80s were the best decade and it’s all downhill from here.
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I love that plane.
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It was a lovely machine. I’ve seen a couple in museums. I’d like to see one in the air some day. Seems around 15 are still flying.
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Look at the Cutty Sark tea clipper. The peak of cargo-carrying sail-ship technology. It was built at the same time that the first steam-ships were being put into commercial service. Previous generation of technology always peaks just before it's made obsolete.
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