High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Numerous real-world aircraft have appeared in fiction over the decades. These appearances spotlight the popularity of different models of aircraft, and showcase the different models for the general public. For fictional aircraft see List of fictional aircraft, and fictional military aircraft. The years between World War I and World War II saw extensive use of the new technology, aircraft, in the new medium, film. In the early 1920s Hollywood studios made dozens of now-obscure 'aerial Westerns' with leads such as Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson, where the role of the horse was taken by aircraft, or used aircraft as nothing more than vehicles for stunts to excite audiences. In 1926 the first 'proper' aviation film was made; Wings is a story of two pilots who sign up to fly and fight in World War I. Made with the co-operation of the then-Department of War (a relationship that continues to this day), it used front-line military aircraft of the day such as the Thomas-Morse MB-3 and Boeing PW-9, flown by military pilots.