Presentation: June 2014

This month's AE presenter: Jeff
Date of presentation: 16-June-2014
Subject: The Great War Gallery
Description: Jeff put together a picture show of sorts illustrating the state of military aviation during "the Great War" (World War I).  Since aviation in general was still in its infancy at the time, a wide range of wildly divergent aircraft was used, ranging from lighter-than-air craft used for observation and, well, spying (with a high mortality rate for the observers, given the wicker baskets and flaky parachutes) to huge biplane bombers that took 23 minutes to climb to 5,000'.

Most of the information and images were taken from an article in Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine about the book "The Great War: A Photographic Narrative" by Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10/29/2013).

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