Aircraft in war

Chapter 33: Transcriber’s Notes

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A concise historical and technical survey traces the military employment of aerial craft from earliest balloons through rigid and non‑rigid airships to the newer heavier‑than‑air machines. It describes types and configurations across several countries, evaluates the advantages, disadvantages, equipment and armament, and recounts early wartime uses and aerial combat between different craft. The final chapters assess operational deficiencies, meteorological and technical challenges, and prospects for future development of military aviation.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

Page 2: “the battle of Fleurus, 1794” was misprinted as “the battle of Fleurus, 1784”.

Page 86: “the longest being 22½ feet” was printed that way.