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When I was a child growing up in Northern Virginia, a favorite summer evening activity in my family was to pick up a pizza at the Italian Store and go down to Gravelly Point. There we watched the planes land just across the field at Reagan National Airport until sunset. As the jets flew over the park in their final descent, they always seemed so much closer to the ground than they actually were. And they came so often! My brothers and I chased them with our arms outstretched, up...