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The prehistory of flight.In 1903,Charles Manly, an engineer,climbed in a 4-year work aircraft attempting to fly across the Washington D.C. lake.Others standing near the track, noticed that in the front,it was slightly jerked.Making Charles,and his aircraft sink into the water below.
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At an outbreak of war in Europe,August 1914,Aircrafts did not play serious in the conflict.There were millons of ground forces of the major European,Frontline aircrafts deployed all combatants amounted to little over 500 fragile, unarmed monoplanes and biplanes.
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Before war 1, the aircraft was a popular imagination as a symbol of terror.In his 1908 book, Wells had described a raid on New York leaving ruins, flames, and scattered dead.It was a vision that appealed to many military commanders.
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World War 1 was the first whole war, in which all of the Human resources of societies were mobilized in the drive for victory.The mass slaughter in the trenches put an immense strain upon social solidarity and morale.Even with deep reserves of patriotism to draw upon.
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The period between the World Wars has been called The Golden Age.But first years shortly after 1918 did't look like the beginning of a Golden Age to pilots nor aircraft manufacturing.The end of World War 1 was short of catastrophic for aircraft manufacturing business.The market was awash with surplus military aircraft.
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The first passenger airplane services were in Europe the immediate aftermath of World War 1.They required a sturdy breed of customer.When the first daily international scheduled air services, between Hounslow, London, and Le Bourget, Paris begin on August 1919, the passengers traveled in open cockpits and wore protective clothing against the cold
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The British experience of rigid airships was even less encouraging.The postwar period started promisingly with an impressive flight by the R 35, a British copy of the German L 33 that had been shot down over England during the war.