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>> jon: the wright brothers first with a primitive airplane on the north carolina coast in december 19 oh three, but for the next decade new american aviation designs barely got off the ground. world war i broke out in 1914, armies on both sides saw the utility of the airplane, first for conducting reconnaissance flights and ultimately for use as a weapon. but most of the aircraft flown in the war were of european design. when america entered the war, its first fighter pilots like famous as eddi...

1960s, it remains an air force workhorse today, often flown by pilots who werent even born when their aircraft were built. the high-flying u-2ss biplane showed american aircraft design moving ahead in leaps and bounds after the slow start of the early 1900s. the blackbird, first born in 1966, still holds the record for the fastest cross-country flight, capable of nearly three and a half times the speed of sound. america developed stealth technology to make aircraft all but invisible to enemy rad...

U.s. military forces are flying a new aircraft expected to continue american air superiority well into the futur future. afghanistan, iraq, syria, the middle east in crisis. flash points around the globe. the u.s. military at war for almost 16 years. now a state-of-the-art warplane could help u.s. forces decisively win these and future conflicts. the f35 stealth fighter. >> we got over 70,000 flight hours on the f35 model right no now. weve even got f35s deployed today to the united kingdom to r...

German aircraft that allied late in the war. >> landing in britain, i think to be seen at various british airports. >> jon: americans built bombers, the heaviest flying machine of its day. boeing built nearly 3,000 of these behemoths at its plant in wichita, kansas, incorporating the latest technology such as guns fired by remote control. its owns the pacific theater dropping the atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki, which brought japan to surrender. its no stretch to say that absent the devel...