Im reading a very interesting book: 

Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic

http://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-Fever-Lindbergh-Competitors-ebook/dp/B0071NMCH8

- If God has the power over man …Why does he permit  the strafing of churches and the atrocities of war? …How can one return from battle and believe that an all powerful God desires ‘peace on earth, good will toward man? . . It was not supposed to be like this. For the first three decades of the twentieth century, mankind believed that science and especially flight, would bring PEACE to the World… Flight would allow man to transcend boundaries that had confined him for centuries: no longer checked by time or distance, man and woman could accomplish anything they DREAMED … Aviation was ’ the greatest factor for progress that has ever existed in the history of civilization’… They saw FREEDOM personified… Finally, flying spawned a hope that an era of reason and PEACE had dawned. National boundaries would become obsolete in an age of flight. Warfare would end. Who would be so mad as to threaten conflict when unchecked retribution could rain from the sky? … Yet it is important to understand the mystical power that flight has held over mankind… Flight meant power over the elements, a subjugation of the natural order of the world. -