Between 1915 and 1918 (or even 1914) .. all was there for forecast the advances .. in warfare and aeronautics if a next war have to be (1940-1945)
...I suppose....but for Johnny down in the trench looking up at a BE2c recieving a shredding from a Fokker E.III, that was futuristic enough. He'd probably grown up without electricity, on a horse-drawn alley or lane. Walked through the market each day or pulled it from the garden, into an icebox if you could afford one. Newspapers, not radio....He'd not look ahead for a swept wing jet or the radar installation that was tracking it. Mind you, there were folks would've convinced you in the nineteen-sixties that we'd be colonizing Mars just about now, never mind big screen TV, cel phones smaller than star trek communicators, or kids who think running a wire with a ball on it through your nose, tongue or lips is an acceptable fashion statement. (I dreamed of a computer powered flight simulator when I was younger.....but nobody predicted it's arrival. One day I bought an ungodley expensive new box made out of linen and dope...or was it plastic....got on the internet and found this semi-secret electronic society of virtual aviators....)
Look at the Quirk. Both she and her opponent Fokker "E" are only so slightly removed from Bleriot's 13, or Levasseur's Antoinette.....it amazes me they bolted guns to them.
Yeah...it was all moving fast. It still is. Then...airframe ideas, materials research, internal combustion engine variation still being explored....only slightly removed from
steam technology that was still on the upswing.....
...Now...electronics, micro-systems, piercings,.......beyond science fiction sometimes. I miss the linen, leather and castor oil that was all gone well before I was born.....sometimes.
Thanks, Ted Cook.
It evokes a lovely old thing, as long as nobody's shooting at us. A good plane for a picnic basket, a pretty girl, and a hop, skip and jump over the greener fields of summerly France, away from that part with trenches, the artilleries, and those little Fokkers.
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