Iconic Photograph - Old world crashing into the new

[1srelluc]

Paul Engelhardt in a Wright aircraft over Berlin-Tempelhof on 12 August 1910

Being watched by a German cavalryman.

The old world, watching the new world ... with the old world soon to disappear almost completely.

 

[Eman623]

Advances in military technology are nothing new.

Within a decade that German soldier (or someone like him) would be flying a plane into war.

 

[westwall]

Advances in military technology are nothing new.

Within a decade that German soldier (or someone like him) would be flying a plane into war.

Yup. Cavalry officers universally went into aviation during WWI.

They viewed it as the new cavalry.

 

[martybegan]

This is modern going BACK to old.

 

[Concerned American]

Paul Engelhardt in a Wright aircraft over Berlin-Tempelhof on 12 August 1910

Being watched by a German cavalryman.

The old world, watching the new world ... with the old world soon to disappear almost completely.

I saw a political cartoon during the Vietnam conflict that told the story succinctly. It showed an American tank mired in a rice patty and a VC passing by it in a two wheeled cart pulled by a water buffalo. Spoke volumes.