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British air power during the First World War
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British air power during the First World War Barely ten years since the first flight in a heavier-than-air craft, the first major air war was being waged. In this short space of time, the technology of flight had grown to such a degree that the origins of many of the functions of modern air war had been attempted, and the RAF had been set up as an separate arm, independent from and equal in status to the other two older forces. It can, however, be questioned whether contemporaries were a little over-impressed with the development of the British air forces, and whether, as a result, the status it had attained by the end of the war was in excess of its true value. `"To speak of air power in this conflict is somewhat misleading. The fragile machines that flew to France in 1914 were not equipped to strike directly at the enemy."...
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