Airplane During World War 1

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Going up in the sky via aircraft, also changed the way the war was fought. At the beginning of the war airplanes were only observation tools. They were used to spot artillery, take photographs, and drop messages to ground troops. Most planes could scarcely carry the pilot and enough fuel to complete a flight, but planes were still an important tool: A single plane could survey what once took a whole regiment of cavalry to see. Pilots quickly realized that airplanes could mount attacks as well. Some pilots packed bricks to throw at other pilots or rifles to shoot enemy planes. Paris was the first victim of a bombing raid; a German plane dropped four bombs on August 30, 1914. Realizing the potential offensive capabilities of the airplane, the