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Early flight was a different beast (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's grim, hadn't heard that before. I guess that the aces were the ones good at learning quickly and improvising.

[โ€“] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago

I'm not an expert, but I can see the military minds of the time thinking that training people would be a waste of time because flying was so deadly. In their minds it would be like training people to swim across the Atlantic from New York to London; it was a matter of luck, not training.

imho