War in the air in WW1 and WW2

WW1

Most airplanes of the time were slow, flimsy contraptions with barely
enough power to lift a single pilot and perhaps one passenger.
Early in the war military strategists realised that planes could be very
useful and used planes for reconnaissance missions to spy on the enemies
advancements.
To stop enemy aircraft spying on the allies they needed to be shot down.
This was ineffective until better guns were developed later on.
In mid-1915 Anton Fokker invented the interrupter gear which allowed
machine gun bullets to synchronise with the propeller and go through.
Russia was the first to develop an airplane specifically for this purpose:
the Murometz, a large four-engine airplane that Igor Sikorsky had
developed in 1913 as a passenger plane, was adapted for use as a bomber
in 1914 and was used successfully throughout the war.
Germany took a different approach to bombing by using lighter-than-air
dirigibles, or zeppelins, to drop bombs on targets at far distances.
However a small spark would set the hydrogen balloons on fire so were
not very effective with the invention of MG planes.
Bombing was not too effective as the capabilities to produce large
explosions had not been developed enough yet. The psychological use
was effective as it put the enemy at attention and distracted some of their
equipment away from the trenches.