War Planes
From the noisy biplanes to the undetected stealth bombers of today, aircraft’s of war have drastically evolved at an amazing pace. From just starting out as reconnaissance for the land battle, planes are now used for reconnaissance, fighters, fortresses, and bombers. Airplanes turned into fighter planes with a simple hand pistol, now the planes are using 20 mm. machine guns.(Fighter) The weapons of airplanes have greatly changed. The 8 cylinder engines of World War I planes had the top speeds of 60 mph.(Great Fighting Planes) but now is nothing compared to the turbojet engines of the new stealth planes pushing mach 3.6.(Air Power) It has all changed from the beginning plane flown by the Wright brothers. The first fighter airplane was born during the First World War, over the battles at the Western Front. Planes that were made for reconnaissance to tell the leaders where the battles were being fought and where the enemy was at all changed with a little hand pistol. The airplanes were now changed to fighter planes. As friction developed between the Allied and German pilots, a variety of weapons were called into use. In addition to pistols and rifles, sporting shotguns loaded with chain shot were taken into
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Approximate Word count = 1793
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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