Enriching and supplementing Wonderland Imprints’ well-received series of classic Illustrated Master Editions, the STEAMPUNK ADVENTURES series is devoted to reviving the very finest forgotten rarities which were originally published during the golden age of technology. The series explores the origins of retro-futurist elements, such as airships, mechanical men, goggled gentlemen of war, sophisticated adventuresses, gadgetry and weaponry, and global cataclysm. These are the tales of the Age of Steam, the lore of the ornate technology which reigned in a golden future that never was. Above all, this series is focused on telling great Victorian stories you’ve probably never heard of! Raymond CollishawView a brief profile and artifacts related to Air Vice Marshal Raymond Collishaw. From the Canadian War Museum.

As much as I get frustrated by H.G. Wells and like to criticize his work, I can't help but recognize his genius. "The War In The Air" is one of his novels that I honestly can find very little to fault, and I believe stands as one of his best sci-fi novels. Air war was not decisive: Although air power could rain destruction onto a civilian populace, it could not hold the ground that it had destroyed. Accordingly, it could not be decisive in its own right. As the people of New York demonstrated; thought their mayor surrendered, the spirit of the people was not crushed, and they were able to mount of rebellion and fight on.

CHAPTER X. THE WORLD UNDER THE WAR

Valour RoadWatch the Heritage Minute about the Canadian troops and pilots who served with great bravery and distinction on the front lines of the First World War. From Historica Canada. The Germans curtailed their terror bombing campaign in 1917 and focused more on bombing closer to the armies on the Western Front, increasingly using their two-engine Gotha bombers in that role. The British developed their own long-range bombers (primarily

Although a number of New Zealand’s First World War aviators saw action at Gallipoli and in the Middle East, the vast majority flew with the British air services over the Western Front. They became part of the remarkable story of how the aeroplane, a new and primitive weapon in 1914, developed into a key element of warfare by the end of hostilities. I knew it was no good trying to get onto a horse because horses were out. Then I thought I might try to be a gunner and get a seat on a limber or a horse that way but they seemed to be full up. I went round to the War Office, where I was interviewed by a rather supercilious young man. When I said I would like to fly – which I realised was something else I could do sitting down, not walking – he said, ‘So would 6,000 other people; would you like to be 6,001 on the waiting list?’ Even if a man survived being shot down by the enemy, such an ordeal could have a huge impact on his mental ability to carry on flying. When Eric Roberts was badly hit by an anti-aircraft shell during a reconnaissance flight in Palestine, it affected his nerves. Of course it was bound to have a demoralising effect on us and indeed it did so. Several squadrons got so badly shot up that the whole of their morale crumbled under the weight of this German armament. And as we were always sent over the other side of the lines to engage the German aircraft it was even worse because if you were engaged and shot down you were shot down on the other side of the lines and that’s a thing that no pilot wanted at any time. role of intelligence gathering was carried out by the observation aircraft, even though most of the attention by writers and mythmakers at the time and ever since has been devoted to the fighters.The War in the Air postulates a near future world war, made possible by the atmosphere of fervent nationalism running wild in the various world empires, and by the sudden increase in mobility to the war departments of these nations made possible by air travel. Huge fleets or lighter-than-air ships are built - the battleships of the air - supported by rather unreliable heavier than air flying machines of variable invention that mostly get about by clumsily flapping their wings. The novel is set in the year '191-'

In the early part of the summer of 1916, when the Germans were outnumbered over the Somme battlefields in northern France, they suffered a series of defeats, losing over Once the Germans had been stopped on the Marne and static trench warfare developed, the role of aircraft changed. The RFC was dispersed along the ever-lengthening front lines that were developing in Flanders. Knowledge of the German trench systems and what lay behind them was vital. Initially, observers (sitting in the second seat of the aeroplane) made sketches and took notes, but as the network of trenches developed, recording such complex positions this way became impossible. Aerial photography gradually took over as the recording method, using techniques experimented with before the war.bold action and recommended for a Victoria Cross, although there were no witnesses to his act. The VC was awarded, although there were rumbles of disbelief at the time that edge of the forest. Head at Englefontaine—Rear at point where the branch road leads off to Gommegnies.