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OCR: Arts & Letters Brief Survey of Military Aviation (Overview) WAR BIRDS, TM The importance of aircraft designed specifically for use by the military was recognized within a decade of the initial controlled, power-driven airplane flights achieved Beginnings since Soon after Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first ne Where To See Aircral powered, controlled flight in 1903, the military recognized he the possibilities of airplanes. In 1909 the US Army bought their Model A biplane for $30,000. The value of World War I appeared a Appendix maneuverab At the beginning of the First World War, all the A Brief Survey of Military Aviati recorded ex combatants sent reconnaissance aircraft aloft to wat performed it each other's troop movements and to spot for their Fighter Development granted for artillery. At first these pilots flew past each other and Between the Wars and they w Manufacturers of Warbirds combat go Following the Armistice, aviation immediately took a lid not last. Movies Which Feature Warbir civilian turn. Many heavy bombers from the final years of Nose Art the war were refurbished and turned into passenger to fire sho airliners. Fighters were scrapped or turned into racers. two-man Recommended Reading er of 1914 And it wa World War II the advan 1920's an Nazi Germany entered the Second World War with the particular best air force in the world. It wasn't just that its aviators running. had been able to practice during the Spanish Civil War; Glossary reliability the Luftwaffe, had some of the best aircraft in the world engines q and had them in great numbers. It racked up some