It's kind of hard to imagine being some of these people who went airborne basically when to them it was like going into outerspace is to us. Almost nothing was known about it. You froze. The planes fell apart. Yet to them they were the most advanced highest tech machines in the world and not the fragile things we think of them as today. The machine w ere so admired that sports cars began to feature cockpits to look like aeroplane cockpits which is a design that has persisted today in convertibles. The whole warp around instrument dial on cars came from these old world war 1 fighters and car makers wanting to appeal to drivers who imagined themselves flyers. Remember before that time all cars had flat dashboards designed to be away from the driver because in old carriages the passengers thought of luxury as having a lot of space and things away from you. Aeroplane cockpits brought in the wraparound cockpit in cars because young drivers imagined themselves to be in aeroplane cockpits. That feeling still eprsists as many car buyers want the feel of a "spaceship" around them. This was a time when having a good watch had the same cache as having a good computer or apple iphone does today.