The first World War saw many innovations in warfare.

Probably the most significant was the introduction of aircraft.

The first military pilots didn't really know what they were doing.

There was no rulebook about how to fight with other planes.

However, one pilot mastered the art of

aerial warfare and terrorized the allies over the skies on the Western Front.

Learn more about Manford von Rictovin, aka the Red Baron, the greatest ace of World War One on this episode of Everything Everywhere

Daily. In 1903, the Wright brothers took their first motorized flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Just 11 years later, the First World War broke out in August of 1914.

In that 11 years, there was an enormous amount of progress made in aviation.

When the war started, no one had ever used airplanes in war before. It wasn't just a completely new technology, it was a completely new

dimension on the battlefield. Instead of just considering a two-dimensional battle map

you now had to think in three dimensions. When the war began, the first use of

aircraft was for reconnaissance.

Plains were sent out over enemy lines to see what they were planning and where they would attack.

The early planes would usually have two seats with a pilot and an observer.

The use of aircraft was vital in the first days of the

war when the French found that the Germans were attempting a flanking maneuver and were able to

counter it. Cameras were eventually installed on airplanes which allowed for detailed maps of the battlefield.

Eventually as each side had reconnaissance aircraft they would often pass each other in the sky.

Unlike the grunts on the ground, the pilots consider themselves gentlemen and often wave to each other as they passed.

But eventually, understanding the importance of reconnaissance aircraft, the pilots began to take

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