Military Aviation
Abstract
War is humanity's greatest calamity; on this everyone agrees. But will we ever be able to put an end to it? Only from Europe might we hope for an answer to this question, and up until now we have had no hint of a positive response. Let us then at least try to reduce the evils of war. what we should strive to do is reduce the number of war's victims, and if along with that we could serve our country and provide for its defense, this would be the act of a good citizen and a good patriot. Military aviation has always seemed to me the necessary instrument for producing this doubly beneficial result; at least it has always been at the core of my thinking. Before I took up this question of the national defense, I said to myself, since science belongs to no country, aviation might become the property of many. But being a simple inventor and a man who loves his country, I could think of nothing better than to clothe my work in secrecy, and this I did. In my brochure The First Stage of Military Aviation in France, I related the story that follows. I refer my reader to those sad pages, but for those who have not read them I will relate the essential facts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA417387
Entities
People
- Clement Ader
Organizations
- Air University Press