First Flights with Neil Armstrong

Name: Flying Aces, War in the Air
Released: 1991-10-09

Season 1 • Episode 3: Flying Aces, War in the Air • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 3: Flying Aces, War in the Air

October 9, 1991

WW1 gave the airplane a job, soon the battlefields were full of unarmed aircraft, peering down at the trenches, then carrying news of an impending attack. With a machine gun mounted on the cowling of a Morane-Saulnier Bullet, the fighter plane was born.

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