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Unlike any war the world had ever seen before, World War I was
fought in two arenas: in the trenches and, for the first time,
in the air. When the war broke out in 1914, the airplane, just
a decade old, was untested as a weapon of combat. Yet over the
course of the four-year conflict, fighters rapidly evolved
from flimsy converted reconnaissance planes to powerful, deft
machines of war. In this pictorial time line, witness the
incremental innovations in Allied and German aviation
engineering during the Great War. —Lexi Krock
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