When WW2 began, the Western Front initially saw little ground combat. But there was plenty of action in the air. On 08 ...

In the short time between the first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and the Battle of Britain that started in July of 1940, the airplane ... that several WW2 aircraft have ...

requiring less physical exertion from the pilot to provide input to the control surfaces. Another important use of the external wires for some WW2 aircraft was for radio communications.