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The Entente - World War I Battlefields (313 words) |
 | Military science was right at determining the basic tasks of military aviation, which were: to reconnoiter the enemy troop positions, maintain communication, inflict material and moral losses, kill the enemy planes, do aerial photography to provide information about type and position of the enemy fortifications. |
| So, once airborne the plane was used as a weapon not only serving as a reconnaissance and communication means but also conducting bombing of the enemy troops, and objectives of the rear, and fighting the enemy in the air. |
| In terms of tasks fulfilled aviation was divided into bomber, fighter and reconnaissance aviation. |
| Connecticut's Heritage Gateway (346 words) |
| None of the hundreds of thousands of predominantly Southern and Eastern Europeans who sought opportunity in the state in the twentieth century made a greater contribution to American life than Igor Sikorsky. |
| Already an accomplished inventor when he fled Bolshevik Russia in 1919 at the age of thirty to take up residence near Bridgeport among fellow exiles, Sikorsky revolutionized aviation by building and flying the first practical helicopter. |
| The aviation pioneer, a formal and dignified man, was born to affluent, well-educated parents. |
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