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Lt. Benjamin Foulois
Foulois ushered dawn of military flight at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston 110 years ago
March 2, 2020
— Aviation pioneer Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois ushered in the dawn of military flight when he made his historic journey 110 years ago March 2...
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Foulois, Fort Sam Houston at the front lines developing aerial photography, reconnaissance
February 20, 2018
— Aerial photography can trace its early history to 1858, when French photographer and balloonist Gaspar Felix Tournachon took a photo of the French village of Petit-Becetre from a tethered hot-air balloon 80 meters (approximately 270 feet) above the ground. However, the roots of military aerial reconnaissance and photography are planted much closer to home, when Benjamin Foulois sowed the seeds of the idea at Fort Sam Houston in the early 20th century...
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JBSA commemorates first military flight by Foulois in 1910
February 16, 2018
— The legacy of aviation pioneer Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois will be remembered with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Foulois House at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston March 2, just a few hundred feet from where the man who helped usher in the dawn of military flight made his historic journey 108 years ago...
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Foulois Facts: Commemorating the first military flight
February 22, 2017
— March 2 marks a monumental day in the legacy of aviation. On that day, 107 years ago, a young Army lieutenant named Benjamin Foulois made history when he piloted the Army's first aircraft, Signal Corps Aircraft No. 1, over Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston...
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