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Early Flight Era [1700s – 1918]
Dreams of flight inspired aviation’s early pioneers. Balloons carried the first eighteenth century aeronauts aloft. The world caught aeroplane fever when the Wright brothers flew the first engine-powered flight. The military jumped to use this new technology in warfare, first for reconnaissance and later, for defense.