The Rise and Fall of Flight

In 1909, French aviator and moustache enthusiast Louis Blurio bagged the £1000 prize that had been posted by the British Daily Mail newspaper for the first flight across the English Channel. Within a few years in 1913, the world's first scheduled passenger airline was founded, the St Petersburg Tampa airboat line. And we'll talk about how guns were incorporated into early planes so as to shoot down enemy planes. Can you imagine chucking a grenade while flying an airplane at an enemy plane that's flying past you? You need to send you need to start sending up body cricket and baseball players to make sure they could actually hit the target.