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Before radar, air traffic control used tabletop maps
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It is wildly reassuring to realize that the dawn of commercial aviation was essentially managed by grown adults playing a high-stakes game of Risk. Before radar became the global standard in the 1950s, air traffic controllers relied entirely on delayed radio updates to physically move tiny boat-like markers around a massive tabletop map with sticks.
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