Mollmann, Steven (March 2015). "Air-Ships and the Technological Revolution: Detached Violence in George Griffith and H.G. Wells". Science Fiction Studies. 42 (1): 20–41. doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.42.1.0020. JSTOR 10.5621/sciefictstud.42.1.0020. Air power brought the end to vicarious war: Prior to air power, war was a matter of battles between armies fought along fronts removed from the population who supported the war. The public fought "by proxy in the person of anyone who cared to enlist." With air power, however, war was no longer limited to fronts, but could be brought to the heart of the nation, and the people themselves. The swaying view varied with these changes of altitude. Now they would be low and close, and he would distinguish in that steep, unusual perspective, windows, doors, street and sky signs, people and the minutest details, and watch the enigmatical behaviour of crowds and clusters upon the roofs and in the streets; then as they soared the details would shrink, the sides of streets draw together, the view widen, the people cease to be significant. At the highest the effect was that of a concave relief map..."

He said it simply - somebody somewhere ought to have stopped something, but who or how or why were beyond all his ken." Valour RoadWatch the Heritage Minute about the Canadian troops and pilots who served with great bravery and distinction on the front lines of the First World War. From Historica Canada.

Con un avvio – per me- poco convincente, la storia prende il volo proprio quando Bert, il protagonista di questa storia, a seguito di un imprevisto, si ritrova nella cesta di una mongolfiera.

Needless to say, neither side wanted the other spying on them. As a result, aerial combat soon began when rival aircraft encountered each other. Initially, handheld firearms were used – though, as observer Archibald James explained, they only had limited effect. New German aircraft meant that the RFC suffered very heavy casualties in the early months of 1917 – particularly during what became known as ‘Bloody April’. Fresh pilots were sent to the front without adequate training, resulting in significant loss of life. This was something that flight commander Gwilym Lewis did his best to counter. more formal RFC-run training system was established in early 1917, with the largest school at Camp Borden near

The engine had stopped and there was I, suspended in the air with a dead pilot, Huns, bullets, wings all round me and I looked up to the heavens and I said ‘Oh, God help me...’

As much as I get frustrated by H.G. Wells and like to criticize his work, I can't help but recognize his genius. "The War In The Air" is one of his novels that I honestly can find very little to fault, and I believe stands as one of his best sci-fi novels. An Enduring Relationship : A History of Friendship between the Royal Air Force and the Royal Air Force of Oman

Butteridge is famous for his successful invention of an easily maneuverable fixed-wing aircraft, whose secret he has not revealed. We come to know that he intends to sell his secrets to the British government or, if not possible, instead to Germany. We also come to know that prior to Mr. Butteridge's invention, nobody had succeeded in producing a practical, "heavier-than-air" machine—only a few awkward devices of limited utility had been made since (such as the German " Drachenflieger" which had to be towed aloft and released from an airship). Butteridge's invention is considered a major breakthrough. The invention is highly maneuverable, capable of both very fast and very slow flight, and requires only a small area to take off and land—reminiscent of the later autogyro. sailed with the First Canadian Contingent to Britain. Overseas, the CAC was forgotten by Hughes and neglected by authorities. Its single airplane slowly rotted away, and the CAC ceased to exist by May 1915. The British, too, had their own flying aces. Thomas Isbell remembered the aggressive skill of one of the most celebrated of these, Major James McCudden VC.I was a very slow pupil. I suppose I was a little bit dense or something like that. Because I took eight hours to go solo, whereas the average was about three hours. I knew of one person who took only twenty minutes to go solo. At about 10,000 feet, flyers also had to deal with oxygen deprivation (hypoxia), which could leave them slow to react to threats.