The Wright brothers' early canvas aircraft can be set beside Zeppelin attacks and organized fighter cover at the end of World War I. In roughly fourteen years as estimated here, flight moved from experimental machines to a military system expected to contest control of the air. Doctrine had to develop while the aircraft themselves changed rapidly. Commanders were discovering what an air strategy required as practical capabilities expanded.
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Flight became an air-control system within a generation
The interval from the Wright brothers to Zeppelin raids and organized fighter cover shows how quickly air power became an operational system.