Back in the 70s, when you talked about Formula One racing, you forgot about all but two airplanes: Rivets and Shoestring. Rivets was the tubing-and-fabric invention of one man, Bill Falck, and as Falck's imagination changed, so did the airplane. On the other hand, Shoestring, the only airplane to consistently beat Rivets on equal footing, was the result of a 1949 team effort, and saw very few major modifications. It was fast and beautiful in 1949, and more than 20 years later it was still very much the same, only more so.
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