The Brutal History of The First Warplanes

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The aircraft was so primitive. But most military leaders Barely took them seriously. When the first world war began Aircraft were fragile, flimsy machines built from wood and wire and string and canvas.

ridiculed largely by an officer class that insisted on going to war on horseback. Very few people took them seriously. But let me tell you, within four years, the skies above Europe had become a swarming battlefield of Reconnaissance planes, fighter aircraft. Bombers. Zeppelins.

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