Timeline World History Docs

What Were The First Airplanes of The Royal Air Force? | Royal Air Force (2022x24)

Air date: Feb 19, 2022

The series begins before the First World War when military commanders struggled to understand what uses aviation might have. The Wright Brothers had been the first to fly a powered aircraft in controlled flight in 1903, but even by 1914 aircraft were still fragile and underpowered. But the WWI saw the aeroplane develop into a formidable weapon capable of carrying bombs for thousands of miles.