How did Aircrafts changed durin the First World War by Santiago

A New Weapon

s_pesadooconnor — 2015-08-03 14:01:55 UTC

In the summer of 1914, the airplane was less than eleven years old. Aviation was a new invention that had lots of expectations. Most airplanes of the time were slow, flimsy contraptions with barely enough power to lift one or two passenger. Numerous countries had shown an interest in military aviation, but the concept of using airplanes to wage war was still a fairly radical idea. All that changed during the course of World War I.

Reconnaissance Planes

s_pesadooconnor — 2015-08-03 14:16:41 UTC

Early in the war, military strategists realized that aircraft could be very useful for spying on enemy troop movements, and the idea of reconnaissance plane was born. These aircraft typically carried a pilot and an observer with a camera, who would photograph troop positions on the ground. The use of aircraft for reconnaissance grew rapidly during the first few months of the war and played an increasingly crucial role in

Fighter Planes

s_pesadooconnor — 2015-08-03 14:26:10 UTC

As aerial reconnaissance became more common, people needed ways to stop enemy observation planes. One way was by firing upon them from the ground, which was ineffective until guns could be better adapted for the purpose. The other way was to develop a means for one aircraft to attack another. The first such attempts were made using the observation aircraft themselves, as pilots and observers attempted to shoot at other planes using rifles and even pistols. The ideal solution was the machine gun, which could fire a continuous stream of bullets, significantly increasing the chance of hitting a target.

Bomber Planes

s_pesadooconnor — 2015-08-24 13:26:28 UTC

Bombing was an obvious offensive tactic for use in air warfare, but different countries approached the concept in different ways. Russia was the first to develop an airplane specifically for this purpose: the Murometz, a large four-engine airplane that Igor Sikorsky had developed in 1913 as a passenger plane, was adapted for use as a bomber in 1914 and was used successfully throughout the war.

Zeppelin

s_pesadooconnor — 2015-08-24 13:28:54 UTC

Germany took a different approach to bombing by using lighter-than-air dirigibles, or zeppelins, to drop bombs on targets as far away as London and Paris. The slow-moving zeppelins, which had a long range and could carry a relatively large cargo of explosives, reached the peak of their success early in the war, during 1915. As the war continued, the giant airships became increasingly vulnerable to the rapidly improving capabilities of fighter planes: the zeppelins were filled with hydrogen, so only a small spark was necessary to cause the entire ship to explode in flames. As a result, Germany turned more and more to using airplanes as bombers.

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s_pesadooconnor — 2015-08-24 14:23:16 UTC

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s_pesadooconnor — 2015-08-24 14:26:32 UTC

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s_pesadooconnor — 2015-08-24 14:28:33 UTC

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ma_fuentes1 — 2015-09-07 14:07:15 UTC

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