Military

Chalais-Meudon, French military installation which advanced dirigible technology and produced La France.

Aerodrome A — Langley project sponsored by U.S. War Department

Some publications:

• Fullerton, 1893, Some Remarks on Aerial Warfare
• Ader, 1907, La Première Étape de l'aviation militaire française
• Lafon, 1916, Les armées aériennes modernes
• Lin, 1932, Aeronautical Law in Time of War‎ (focuses on events and laws before 1914)

Hallion, 2003, p. 296:

At heart military dominance demands height. With height comes view, with view comes awareness, and with awareness comes the ability to undertake decisive action. Since earliest times, from the days of the scout perched on a horse on top of a hill, military leaders sought means of reaching across intervening terrain to learn about an enemy and his intentions, and if possible, to strike at him. Wellington, victorious over assorted armies at Seringapatam at Assaye in India, over various of Napoleon's marshals in Spain, and finally over Napoléon himself at Waterloo, famously remarked in 1845, "I have been passing my life in guessing what I might meet with beyond the next hill, or round the next corner." Early aviators recognized that the vantage point conveyed by flight offered tremendous possibilities of assuaging the frustration Wellington expressed.

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