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An 8 page research paper which gives a thorough examination of the build-up of British avaition during the First World War. The writer demonstrates how, from a start at the beginning of the war characterized by inferior tactics, logistical support and equipment, the Royal Air Force emerged as the most powerful armed air resource in the world. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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the nature and significance of air power, as well as logistical delays and inferior designs, the British air arm nevertheless emerged by wars end as the preeminent air force in
the world, both in its ability to deploy superior resources and its ability to use those resources effectively. British military authorities have been faulted generally for their lack of vision
in seeing the possibilities of air warfare, and this is true to a certain extent. Their aircraft, particularly the early ones, have also been criticized, as poor in performance and
slow to incorporate innovation, and this is also true, to a lesser extent. Nevertheless, the student must remember that as the war began in 1914, almost no one, on either
side, could have predicted the extent to which the airplane would mature and come into its own as a machine for making war. When the war began, the maximum speed
for an aircraft was 70 miles per hour and the ceiling was 10,000 feet. Four short years later, speeds were approaching 200 miles per hour and some aircraft had service
ceilings upwards of 20,000 feet. Therefore, it is understandable, as Morrow, points out that initially the British government favored the much more expensive airships. Morrow states, "Initial hesitation need not
necessarily have proved damaging: The German government, soon to sponsor one of the most active aircraft procurement policies in the world, began by neglecting the airplane in favor of
the much more expensive rigid airship, only purchasing twenty-eight of the former in 1911?1. As the war began, the British envisioned air power as simply an extension
of its ground and naval forces. It arranged the Royal Flying Corps as the air arm of British ground forces, including the British Expeditionary Force in France, and the Royal
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