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Lt. Benjamin Foulois
JBSA celebrates 113th anniversary of first military light
March 3, 2023
— U.S. Army North hosted a celebration March 2 that acknowledged that 113 years ago, then-U.S. Army Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois was the first pilot to conduct a military flight at Fort Sam Houston...
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ARNORTH hosts 113th anniversary celebrating the birth of military flight March 2
February 24, 2023
— U.S. Army North (Fifth Army) will host a celebration of the Birthplace of Military Aviation, which occurred at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on March 2, 1910, using the Wright Flyer. The event pays tribute to the historic significance of the flight and honor the multiple branches that have been brought forth because of this event...
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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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