
Victory Through Air Power
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- 1943
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Today,
a war is very different...
than the last European war was.
Now air power is the dominant
feature of military operations.
Air power can fly directly
into the vital centers...
of an opposing state
and neutralize them.
It can destroy the cities.
It can wreck the aqueducts.
It can knock out
the lines of communication.
It can destroy
the food supplies...
and make the people
helpless to resist.
For 3,500 years,
man has had the desire to fly.
And yet it was
only 40 years ago...
this ambition was realized-
an accomplishment that
was to change the destiny...
of the entire world.
Two brothers,
Orville and Wilbur Wright-
bicycle builders
from Dayton, Ohio-
on the morning
of December 17...
set up on the sands of
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina...
their first heavier-than-air
flying machine.
Powered by
a four-cylinder motor...
developing
almost twelve horsepower...
with two bicycle chain-driven
propellers...
turning at nearly
340 revolutions per minute.
The machine,
complete with pilot...
weighed almost 750 pounds.
In order
to launch the plane...
a monoraiI track was designed.
The biplane "A"runs on
the wooden raiI "B"...
and anchor wire "C"
holds the plane back...
to enable the motor
to develop sufficient power...
for the takeoff.
Everything is in readiness.
looks on hopefully.
Orville Wright
is at the controls.
One, two, three...
Go!
The motor races.
It's a tense moment.
Wilbur steadies the wing.
The plane strains
at the anchor cable.
Orville's hand
grips the controI.
The wire is released!
For twelve seconds...
the Wright plane
plows through the air...
in unmistakable power-driven,
man-carrying flight.
Twelve seconds.
TotaI distance-120 feet.
Man has conquered the air.
The five witnesses
of this epoch-making flight...
were too startled,
too thrilled to cheer.
Success! Four flights
Thursday morning...
starting from leveI,
average speed 31 miles.
Inform press. Home Christmas.
Orville Wright.
Man's first flight.
Yet this epoch-making feat...
failed to impress
a disinterested public.
The only part
of this stirring message...
that seemed newsworthy was...
"The Wright Brothers
to be home for Christmas. "
In spite of the public's
lack of enthusiasm...
the Wrights persisted.
Then one day, they made
a revolutionary flight.
For the first time,
they were able...
to turn the plane around
in midair...
and fly in
the opposite direction.
The daring Brazilian sportsman
Alberto Santos-Dumont...
made the first
officially recorded...
European airplane flight.
Soon, many other
intrepid airmen...
were flying
in triplanes, biplanes...
monoplanes and multiplanes.
Fantastic in appearance,
but they all flew.
Back in America...
Gee willikers!
It says here
the Army plans an Air Corps.
"The flying machine
must make...
"an endurance flight
of one hour...
"carry pilot
and one passenger...
"attain a speed
of 40 miles an hour...
'traveI ten miles
and land undamaged. "
Well, doggone.
41 enthusiastic
airplane builders...
submitted bids
I'll build a plane
for a million dollars.
I'll build it
for a thousand.
- Mine'll cost 10 million.
- $3,000.
- $1,230.
- $10,000.
My plane'll cost only $510.
And one shrewd bidder...
guaranteed to build a plane
for $45 a pound.
However, when
the government demanded...
a 10% forfeit be posted...
all but three of
these enthusiastic bidders...
hastily withdrew.
The contract was let
to the Wright Brothers...
for one military airplane.
Six months later,
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