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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 eddie rickenbacker flew airplanes designed and built in france. by the time world war ii broke out ameri...

1960s, it remains an air force workhorse today, often flown by pilots who weren't even born when their aircraft were built. the high-flying u-2's's 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 radar in the 1970s. stealth makes it a possible fourth american planes to evade detection while flyi...

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. we've even got f35s deployed today to the united kingdom to reassure our allies as well as everybody in the world that the f35 is here and it's here to stay. th...

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. it's no stretch to say that absent the development of this superb american airplane, world war ii might've had a a very different outcome. anot...