The 20th century was not in vain dubbed the "Century of Aviation" - in just a hundred years it went a colossal way from the first timid flights, which lasted a few minutes, to complete domination in the air and the status of the new "Goddess of War." How did this transformation from an auxiliary branch of the military into a determining factor in hostilities take place? How did you manage to create a perfect mechanism for the "air blitzkrieg" - despite the fact that the German aces themselves considered air support for Guderian tanks a secondary task that prevented them from waging a "correct" war? Why was the age of dive bombers so brief? Who wins the century-old confrontation between the Air Force and Air Defense? And what allows combat aircraft to maintain dominance over the battlefield even in the era of the ZKR, nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles?