| The
creative genius which produced the industrial revolution
now was put to work creating newer and better weapons. Though
not used very effectively, airplanes were used as weapons
of war in World War I. At first both sides used the planes
for reconnaissance and pilots did not try to fight one another.
Often they would wave at each other as they passed. As the
war heated up pilots began to fire guns. Next they fastened
a machine gun to the airplane, but at first the bullets
got caught in the propellers with unfortunate results. Once
they learned to synchronize the machine gun with the propellers,
the dogfight became possible. The
World War I flying aces, such as The
Red Baron,
captured the public imagination |
