the most successful of which is eddie rickenbacker of the 94th squadr squadron. you always need a place to put your crazy aggressive people because you need them sometimes but you don't want too many around. the 94th was that place, top scoring unit, top scoring squadron. eddie rickenbacker leads the charts for them. the airplane is new, still developing. by the end of the war we had not only seen air power develop kind of similar types of mission sets we still use today to a large degree. you've seen this culture start to develop as it evolves into weapons systems. what is about them that makes them so attractive to the public? this is the victorian era, people wanted the old school mythological heroes and it wasn't even 15 years earlier that for americans at least you had teddy roosevelt charging up san juan hill, the lone warrior. i'm going to charge up the hill and take the hill and this expression of masculinity. world war i is not that. at least the popular perception of what's happening is you've got millions of men in the front lines getting ripped apart

the most successful of which is eddie rickenbacker of the 94th squadron. you always need a place to put your crazy aggressive people because you need them sometimes but you don't want too many around. the 94th was that place, top scoring unit, top scoring squadron. in the american air service. eddie rickenbacker leads the charts for them. so airplane is still new. it's still developing. by the end of the war we had not only seen air power develop kind of similar types of mission sets we still use today to a large degree. you've seen this culture start to develop as it evolves into weapons systems. what is about them that makes them so attractive to the public? in a large way, it's a response to what's happening on the ground. right? this is the victorian era, peel wanted these kind of old-school mythological heroes and it wasn't even 15 years earlier that for americans, at least, you had teddy roosevelt charging up san juan hill, the lone warp yorior. i'm going to charge up the hill and take the hill and this expression of masculinity. and heroism. now you

he's flying along with eddie rickenbacker. any time somebody suggested that he fly in a two-seat plane he allegedly "wouldn't hear of it." he insisted he always fly solo, no one was allowed to fly with him. they nicknamed him lone-star luft. pilots love nicknames. so not just that but the airlines themselves took on symbolic roles and every time there is a new development, now aircraft came out these pilots would have hot opinions about it. and so we see the cycles start to repeat themselves. one example, in the american 147th, kenneth loved the newport 28. here's a newport, loved this, this is the most maneuverable claim i've had yet. helps me to dog fight. i can do the close turns. when the unit started receiving spad fighters, they hated them, they weren't as maneuverable and they nicknamed them the pooping spad, saying it had a problematic engine. in the 90th squadron they had different planes. these are actually observation planes but apparently the flight characteristics of it were so sublime to the fighter pilot that th

he discussed the airmen behind the stories and described how legendary pilots like eddie rickenbacker influenced movies, comics and popular culture. held by the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, this is close to an hour. >>> all right. ladies and gentlemen, it's my true pleasure to produce our last speaker for this afternoon. that's dr. michael hankens, assistant professor of strategy at the united states air force's e school of graduate professional military education where he directs courses on air power history and national strategy. he recently published an article, "the tball solution: the evolution of air combat technology in vietnam 1968 to 1972." in the at air