Once machine guns were mounted on the aircraft however, they truly became killing machines. While early airmen waved or smiled at each other, soon, they began to shoot and throw bricks. Almost immediately following the battle, the use of recon aircraft exploded into popularity. The Battle of Tannenburg on the Eastern Front proved that a much smaller army with good aerial reconnaissance could defeat a numerically but less informed opposing army. While all but a few WW1 Generals supported airplanes, the ones who did were met with great success. Up to and leading into the First World War, aircraft were still only in their infancy yet they would prove to be excellent weapons of war. While the airplane built by the Wrights only could fly a few feet above the ground and only for a few seconds, it proved that the design worked and countless other aviation fanatics began to copy and improve the Wright design. It was during this time in fact that the first airplane was built by the inventive Wright Brothers. It would only be during the Industrial Revolution that the concept and engineering of flight really "took off" so to speak. More commonly however, the person attempting to fly would most likely end up face down in a small impact crater. At best, the user would float down gently. From wings made from real bird feathers to complicated articulated flaps, nothing seemed to work.
Over the centuries, countless inventors and lunatics alike tried to fly using anything available. History Since the first human walked on this world, we have longed to fly like the birds.
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