{"id":14227,"date":"2022-05-08T13:34:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T11:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=207621"},"modified":"2022-05-08T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T11:48:07","slug":"war-in-the-air-everything-you-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/war-in-the-air-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"War in the air: everything you wanted to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Emily Briffett\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 08 May 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>What are the origins of aircraft being used in war? How common were dogfights? And were early fighter pilots really the \u2018knights of the air\u2019? Speaking with Emily Briffett, Paul Beaver answers your top questions about military aviation in our latest <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-history-podcast-series-videos\/&quot;\">Everything you wanted to know<\/a> episode.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-207621-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/05\/Waraireverything-d1ddeb3.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/05\/Waraireverything-d1ddeb3.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/05\/Waraireverything-d1ddeb3.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Briffett Published: Sunday, 08 May 2022 at 12:00 am What are the origins of aircraft being used in war? How common were dogfights? And were early fighter pilots really the \u2018knights of the air\u2019? Speaking with Emily Briffett, Paul Beaver answers your top questions about military aviation in our latest Everything you wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14228,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/05\/war-in-the-air-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/05\/war-in-the-air-everything-you-wanted-to-know-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/05\/war-in-the-air-everything-you-wanted-to-know-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/05\/war-in-the-air-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/05\/war-in-the-air-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/05\/war-in-the-air-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/05\/war-in-the-air-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Emily Briffett Published: Sunday, 08 May 2022 at 12:00 am What are the origins of aircraft being used in war? How common were dogfights? And were early fighter pilots really the \u2018knights of the air\u2019? Speaking with Emily Briffett, Paul Beaver answers your top questions about military aviation in our latest Everything you wanted&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/14227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}