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October 23, 1911: First Military Reconnaissance Flight
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The airplane was still a new invention when, on October 23, 1911, Italian Captain Carlo Maria Piazza took off from Tripoli. In his single-engine Bleriot XI, he headed for Ajizia, southwest of the city, to observe Ottoman positions and enemy movements. The flight lasted about an hour. It remains in history as the first widely recognized military reconnaissance mission carried out by airplane during an actual conflict. Smithsonian Magazine describ…
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