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As humanity slowly perfected its military dominance over the land and sea, it didn't take long for some

of the prominent leaders and great minds of the past to turn their attention upward. Ground

combat had been mastered, but what about the sky? If a man could somehow find a way to

rain hell on his enemy from above, then who could hope to challenge him?

Long before the invention of powered flight, the prospect of ruling the air, while often seen as mere fantasy, was taken seriously by some military and government leaders.

In a 1784 letter written just after the successful flight of the world's first hot air balloon, Benjamin Franklin

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