Pershing won the world war without even looking into an airplane let alone going up in one. General Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Scientific American magazine, 16 July 1910.Īviation is fine as a sport. Navel warfare of the future is to be guilty of the wildest exaggeration. To affirm that the aeroplane is going to revolutionize Pickering, Harvard astronomer, Aeronautics, 1908. Lays Aside Crutches to Fly Across Channel, article on Louis Blériot’s flight across the English Channel, in the weekly New York publiation Automibile Topics Illustrated, 31 July 1909.Īnother popular fallacy is to suppose that flying machinesĬould be used to drop dynamite on an enemy in time of war. It is realized that Great Britain’s insular strength is no longer unchallenger, that the aeroplane is not a toy, but a possible instrument of warfare, which must be taken into accout by soldiers and statesmen. Note, this is not the Sir Walter Raleigh who was beheaded nearly three hundred yearsĮarlier! This Sir Walter Raleigh was Professor of English Literature at Glasgow University and Chair of English Literature at Oxford University, and spent time as the official historian of the RAF. The War in the Air: Being the Sory of The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force, vol 1, 1922. It was believed, would frighten the horses. The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which George Orwell, You and the Atomic Bomb, Tribune newspaper, London, 19 October 1945. Weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable. We were once told that the aeroplane had “abolishedįrontiers" actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life, 1902. ![]() Once the command of the air is obtained by one of theĬontended armies, the war must become a conflict between a seeing host and we’re not softening them up, we’re killing them. The preponderance of the Republican Guard divisions We’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age. Regretted being involved in the invention of the airplane. Orville Wright, asked during WWII if he ever Is good for the human race that someone discovered how to start fires,Īnd that it is possible to put fire to thousands of important uses. That is, I regret all the terrible damage caused by fire. I feel about the airplane much as I do in regard to fire. Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 14 March 1933. Paris, Or The Future of War, 1925.Īir power may either end war or end civilization. Hitchcock, 21 June 1917.Īircraft enable us to jump over the army which shields the enemy government, industry, and people, and so strike direct and immediately at the seat of the opposing will and policy.Ĭaptain B. That we were not alone in this thought is evidenced by the fact that the French Peace Society presented us with medals on account of our invention. When my brother and I built and flew the first man-carrying flying machine, we thought that we were introducing into the world an invention which would make further wars practically impossible. There are many citations in older books, but the original source is said to be unclear by Andrew Whitmarsh in the paper British Army Manoeuvres and the Development of Military Aviation, 1910-1913, War in History journal, 14(3), 2007. Hallion in Airpower From the Ground Up, Air Force Magazine, 1 November 2000. General Sir Douglas Haig, British Army, addressing the British Army Staff College, Summer 1914. There is only one way for a commander to get information by reconnaissance, and that is by the use of cavalry. I hope none of you gentlemen is so foolish as to think that aeroplanes will be usefully employed for reconnaissance from the air. Quoted in the Paris edition of the New York Herald, 6 October 1908. He was brother of Robert Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts. Baden-Powell, President of theĪeronautical Society of Great Britain, following the Wright Brothers public flying demonstrations in Le Mans, France, 1908. That Wilbur Wright is in possession of a power which controls the fate of nations is beyond dispute. A conquest of the air by any nation means more than the average man is willing to admit or even think about. Wright is now doing I am certain it would give them a terrible shock. ![]() If only some of our people in England could see or imagine what Mr. Henry David Thoreau, Winter Journal, 3 January 1861. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as Julius Frontinus, chief military engineer to the The invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war,
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