The Dawn Of Military Aircraft | A Not-So-Brief History Of Military Aviation #1 

all good rex, love watching/listening to these and eagerly wait for more

Do you know you spelled "aicraft" without the "r" on the thumbnail heading?

@@dougtraceyvandevere5593 heh, apparently I am blind! Thanks for pointing that out, will correct it asap.

Love your channel! Subbed. Keep them coming.

Potato resolution, anyone ♥️?

I didnt know thats how Fethiye got its name, thank you for sharing this information

Good pun.

It's funny to think of this stuff as technology, but that's what it is.

Also, planes as well as heavier-than-air airships, (Zeppelins), can travel much farther than the shells fired from even the longest-ranged artillery guns. Thus the advent of aerial bombing.

Wikipedia has June 2nd, 1794 as the first military use of a manned balloon.

There were plans for Napoleon's army to invade Britain using Balloons.

I’m a Z but can totally agree with you on that. If you’re like me, I’m sure that the moment you saw RU-vid starting to push shorts you were irritated as hell and avoid them like the plague to this very day. Lol. Good thing we have creators like Rex who dgaf about how long their videos are!

Lmfao

and also i'd like to try and translate all the text in the full foto if you can link me the image in for example a discord app attachment

there is a higher quality version of the image here - weaponsandwarfare.com/2016/01/03/first-balkan-war-bulgarian-theater-of-operations/

@@RexsHangar the first photo has Serbian text and according to Google translate it says "shooting from Serbian cannons bear Jedren" The 2nd photo say (from what I can make out) "Личет псба пат 16.х.1912г. Сад първайо бойно летене х в недайлана - пилой авиптбф пърипак радул миукъв х до - ,, - . Никнебм болданов" Latinised (this means to translate it into Latin letters) "Lichet psba pat 16.x.1912g. Sad pûrvajo bojno letene kh v nedajlana - piloj aviptbf pûrvipak radul miukûv kh do - ,, - . Niknebm boldanov" Please note that the I couldn't Latinise the letter "ъ" properly because it should a "u" with a wave line over it and also that this is defiantly wrong in at least some places because some letters were completely unrecognisable even though I had to make a conclusion and most of these words I don't even know so that, I imagine can only mean I read it wrong or its not in Bulgarian. Google translate will probably give you better answers than me and this also took over an hour

@@somerandomguy___ that's very interesting, I'll have to translate the text on photos moving forward

Author Terry Pratchett used the story about the eagle & the turtle to good effect in his novel Small Gods. 😀

Serbian history of being the first to shoot down an [invincible] aircraft, lol.

Actually morphing airframes still exist today for special applications… Ailerons are however mechanically simpler than wing warping.

A Taube- "Dove" in English. The Museum of Flight in Seattle has a replica.

Also Owls Head Transportation Museum, Owls Head Maine, has a 1913 German Etrich Taube.

Don't forget the importance of the Lewis Gun for Imperial Stormtroopers stationed on Tatooine in the original Star Wars (A New Hope) movie. The distinctive aluminum air sleeve around the barrel can be clearly seen. George Lucas insisted on using actual firearms, modified to look like they were from "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away."

I always get a boot out of people making laws about war, because war itself is an illegal and immoral act, yet to stop it, we must engage in it. Then other men and women, who didn't fight, want to prosecute the children they sent to war. "The Divine Comedy" made material.

@@nathanjones6638 and just when was war made illegal?

@@neiloflongbeck5705 the whole of war is the perpetration of what would be called crimes and terrorism in any other situation. Governments make plans for "collateral damage" and "acceptable losses" ignoring the lives that are ended because two bureaucrats want to have dick measuring contests. I understand that war is necessary in some cases, but I would also have people be suspicious enough of their leaders that a call to war is not blindly answered, as America just showed to be important in the context of Iraq and Afghanistan. While you are right, war isn't illegal, the irony is that what you do in war would be illegal in any context save that one.

@@nathanjones6638 get your facts right, only a war of aggression is illegal. And just like under UK common law defending yourself is perfectly legal, upto and including the taking of the aggressor's life. The Hague Conventions what combatants could or couldn't do. For example, any undefended property or village town or city could not be attacked whilst a defended one can be provided efforts are taken to not hit places of cultural value , historic significance or civilian hospitals, unless being hse to treat combatants. Prior to the adoption of these rules everywhere could be targetted. These rules also define who is a combatant and can be shot at and who is not and can't be shot at.

@@neiloflongbeck5705 I already said that war is legal, but that actions committed therein are illegal. There are two problems, from two different angles, that I have. First, who declares war, and who decides what constitutes an act of war? To use Iraq and Afghanistan as examples, my country invaded two sovereign nations and began attacking people who fought back to protect against these unlawful invasions. Yet, international law has no interest in prosecuting either Bush or Cheney, because superpowers give nations immunity from law. The other objection is that assassination is banned. Since politicians declare wars, the political class in any war should be the highest priority targets, since the population of their country is likely people duped by their leaders. Soldiers are the victims of their terrorist leaders, and as such, the leaders who allow war should be executed, to encourage future governing bodies to seek peace. As for here, I would personally like to send politicians' kids, regardless of age or physical ability, to the front lines without weapons. So, if politicians want war, they would have to sacrifice themselves and their children to get it. That would probably counteract the monetary gain of wars for cash, like literally every war since World War Two. And even World War Two was the product of arms dealers working under the table to start trouble for profit. War is when governments decide they need more cash, and kill portions of their population to get it.

I think it's a later version of the Wright Flyer.

@@paulabraham2550 That's correct. It's a Wright Model B (probably license-built by Burgess as their Model F) being flown by Harry Atwood (who worked for Burgess for a time). Circa 1911.

It's the Fabre Hydroavion during it's first flight on March 28, 1910. It was the world's first successful seaplane and flown by it's inventor Henri Fabre, (1882-1984).

It's a Wright Brothers Model B, most probably a license-built version by Burgess (of Marblehead, Mass., their Model F). About 1911-12.

@@k1ross The one after that. Rear engine Strange wing configuration.

@@rayceeya8659 Fabre Hydroavion, the world's first successful seaplane on it's first flight on March 28, 1910. It was piloted by it's inventor Henri Fabre, (1882-1984).

@@charlestaylor253 Ahh the lower wings are sponsen/floats. That makes perfect sense.

Laf, I was just about to ask the very same thing. And also ask, is it actually in controlled flight or is it at the apex of being catapulted into the sea? Thank you, Mr. Taylor.

There were not air units stationed there during the war afaik. Also Ottomans didn't have monster trains with guns which terrorized Arabia. Falih Rıfkı Atay (a prominent Turkish author later), who was a clerk in that region during the war wrote "Ottomans were merely a police force and infrastructure for Arabs. They had no authority there and no gain from those lands." Arab revolt was not done against huge imperialistic Ottoman forces. It was mostly against local garrisons, supply parties and police stations.

No.1, you're a pervert. No.2, it's spelled dirigible. 🤬