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With President Lyndon Johnson in 1963

General Curtis LeMay

With President Lyndon Johnson in 1963

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Graphical representation of the early years in the signal corps/army air service timeline.

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The first Army aircraft made its first flight March 2, 1910,
at Fort Sam Houston with Lt. Benjamin Foulois at the
controls. Foulois piloted the Army's first aircraft, Signal
Corps Aircraft No. 1, with his first flight lasting only 7 1/2
minutes. He made three more flights that day and on his
fourth attempt, the young pilot ended up crashing the
airplane. The original Signal Corps Aircraft No. 1 was a
Canard biplane with a four-cylinder Wright 30.6 horsepower
engine driving two wooden propellers via a sprocket-and chain transmission system. Foulois taught himself to fly
via correspondence with Orville and Wilbur Wright. Foulois’
experiences in aviation as a member of the Army Signal
Corps led to today's U.S. Air Force. The Army Air Service
was created in 1918. In 1926, the Army changed the
name to the Army Air Corps, which became the Army Air
Forces in 1941. Based on the AAF’s wartime achievements
during World War II and future potential, the U.S. Air Force
won its independence as a full partner with the Army and
the Navy Sept. 18, 1947.

Chronology of Significant USAF Air and Space Events: 1903-2012. By Daniel L Haulman, updated by Priscilla D Jones and Robert D Oliver.

By Laura Yardley. This pamphlet spotlights 21 families where several generations of fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and cousins have served in the USAF. These families represent a much larger number of generational succession of Air Force service.
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