Abstract

This article examines the evolution of military aviation in Mexico, a process that started in the final months of the Porfiriato and continued throughout the 1910–1920 Revolutionary War. The improvements and gradual standardization of government aircraft through the reconstruction period of the following two decades helped ensure the defeat of numerous military rebellions and popular insurrections. The revolutionary regimes of this period also manipulated the image of famous federal aviators to promote a discourse of modernization and development prior to World War II. The pervasive influence of private and public US influences was evident throughout this time, in spite of nationalist government rhetoric.

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