About ten years after the Wright brothers made the first powered flight, there was still much to be improved upon. Because of limitations of the engine power of the time, the effective payload of aircraft was extremely limited. They were made mostly of hardwood and linen fabric doped with flammable liquid to give them the stiffness required to form a wing surface.

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  • About ten years after the Wright brothers made the first powered flight, there was still much to be improved upon. Because of limitations of the engine power of the time, the effective payload of aircraft was extremely limited. They were made mostly of hardwood and linen fabric doped with flammable liquid to give them the stiffness required to form a wing surface. Aside from these primitive materials, the rudimentary aviation engineering of the time meant most aircraft were structurally fragile by later standards, and not infrequently broke up in flight especially when performing violent combat manoeuvres such as pulling up from steep dives. As early as 1909, these evolving flying machines were recognised to be not just toys, but weapons: In 1911, Captain Bertram Dickson, the first British military officer to fly, also correctly prophesied the military use of aircraft. He predicted aircraft would first be used for reconnaissance, but this would develop into each side trying to "hinder or prevent the enemy from obtaining information", which would eventually turn into a battle for control of the skies. This is exactly the sequence of events that would occur several years later. The first operational use of aircraft in war took place on 23 October 1911 in the Italo-Turkish War, when Captain Carlo Piazza made history’s first reconnaissance flight near Benghazi in a Blériot XI.
  • Lentokone ensimmäisessä maailmansodassa oli yksi uusista teknologisista keksinnöistä, joka muutti perinteisiä sodankäyntitapoja. Ensimmäinen maailmansota myös käynnisti lentokoneiden nopean kehityksen. Sodan alun koneet olivat enimmäkseen työntöpotkurisia, hitaita, aseettomia ja soveltuvia korkeintaan tiedustelukäyttöön. Sodan lopussa lentokoneesta oli kehittynyt tehokas sodankäyntiväline niin hävittäjänä, kuin pommikoneenakin. Aseistetun lentokoneen ajatus oli tuotu Englannissa esille jo vuonna 1912.. Sodan edetessä lentokoneiden nopeus ja ketteryys kasvoivat. Hävittäjät, pommittajat ja muut erityiset sotilaskonetyypit erottuivat sodan lopussa selvästi eri ryhminä.
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  • Giulio Douhet (Italian staff officer), 1909
  • The sky is about to become another battlefield no less important than the battlefields on land and sea....In order to conquer the air, it is necessary to deprive the enemy of all means of flying, by striking at him in the air, at his bases of operation, or at his production centers. We had better get accustomed to this idea, and prepare ourselves.
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  • Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, November 1918
  • The day has passed when armies on the ground or navies on the sea can be the arbiter of a nation's destiny in war. The main power of defense and the power of initiative against an enemy has passed to the air.
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  • About ten years after the Wright brothers made the first powered flight, there was still much to be improved upon. Because of limitations of the engine power of the time, the effective payload of aircraft was extremely limited. They were made mostly of hardwood and linen fabric doped with flammable liquid to give them the stiffness required to form a wing surface.
  • Lentokone ensimmäisessä maailmansodassa oli yksi uusista teknologisista keksinnöistä, joka muutti perinteisiä sodankäyntitapoja. Ensimmäinen maailmansota myös käynnisti lentokoneiden nopean kehityksen. Sodan alun koneet olivat enimmäkseen työntöpotkurisia, hitaita, aseettomia ja soveltuvia korkeintaan tiedustelukäyttöön. Sodan lopussa lentokoneesta oli kehittynyt tehokas sodankäyntiväline niin hävittäjänä, kuin pommikoneenakin.
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  • Aviation in World War I
  • Lentokone ensimmäisessä maailmansodassa
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