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Originally Posted by Cybermat47
The air forces aren't the biggest buyers of planes,
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Oh really, who has more planes than air forces?
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and the first plane wasn't built to kill someone.
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Maybe not but it was almost immediately marketed to the military by Wilbur and Orville Wright so the airplanes military uses must have been in their mind while they were developing it.
In fact the first airplane passenger fatality ever was Lt. Thomas Selfridge of the US Army who had been sent out to evaluate the airplane for use by the Army. This happened in 1908. Wilbur was injured but survived the crash.
With a decade the aircraft after that was being used by several nations to kill people and very efficiently so whether it was designed for the purpose or not it was what it became most useful for.