What would this primarily affect?
-Civilian air travel and its affects
-War, obviously
-Exploration
-More advanced planes, but earlier?
What wars could have different outcomes?
-American Civil war
-Crimean war
-Taiping rebellion
-Spanish american war
-Boer war?
Would the american civil war have a different outcome? (Being American, Im most interested in this)
-Would 4 engined strategic bombing be a thing?
-How would fort bombardments, trench warfare, and navel engagements be affected?
-Could we see cities like Atlanta bombed to the ground, destroyed by Sherman's air forces instead?
How could this affect war?
-Strategic bombing
-Gunships, maybe?
-Paratroopers?
-More effective scouting/artillery
-The evolution of warfare to be more mobile? Sitting in trenches would quickly be proven as useless in the face of planes. I feel that we could see WW2-esque warfare earlier.
Anyway, just some quick ideas. I would love to read discussion.