3. The psychic dimension

Apart from technology and medicine it is obvious that flying includes a psychic component as well. The following chapter discusses not so much the emotional aspects of flying but flying in the context of warfare with the aim to kill the opponent. This aspect was dominant in the dogfights of the First World War.

Read the text passages in the following chapters (killing tactics, perception and suppression and War in the air). There you will find further questions.

Contemplate the question, after you have answered the questions in the chapters, which of the described aspects have been influenced by air combat and which aspects might have been also relevant for other combatants.

3.1. Killing tactics                                                

3.2. Perception and suppression                                    

3.3. War in the air  

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