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1908–9 September 17: Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge of the Army became the first U.S. military member to die in an airplane accident when he crashed with pilot Orville Wright during a flight test at Fort Myer, Virginia. A propeller split and broke a wire supporting the rudder. The accident delayed Signal Corps acceptance of an airplane for almost a year. 1909 July 25: Louis Bleriot of France made the first flight in an airplane across the English Channel, flying from Les Barraques, France, to Dover, England. July 27: Orville Wright, with Lt. Frank P. Lahm as passenger, performed the first official Army flight test at Fort Myer, Virginia. They flew for over an hour, meeting one of the specification requirements for a military airplane. August 2: The Army accepted its first airplane from the Wright brothers after the aircraft met or surpassed all specifications in flight tests at Fort Myer, Virginia. The Army paid the Wrights the contract price of $25,000 plus $5,000 for speed in excess of 40 miles per hour. August 25: The Army leased land at College Park, Maryland, for the first Signal Corps airfield. 4 The first Army airplane, a Wright Flyer Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge and Dr. Alexander Graham Bell
October 26: At College Park, Maryland, after instruction from Wilbur Wright, Lt. Frederick E. Humphreys and Lt. Frank P. Lahm became the first Army officers to solo in a Wright airplane. November 3: Lt. George C. Sweet became the first Navy officer to fly when he accompanied Lt. Frank P. Lahm of the Army on a flight at College Park, Maryland. Lieutenant Sweet was the official observer for the Navy at the trials for the Wright Flyer. 1910 January 19: The Army’s Lt. Paul W. Beck, flying with Louis Paulhan in a Farman airplane, dropped three two-pound sandbags over a target at an air meet in Los Angeles, testing the feasibility of using aircraft for bombing. February 15: The Signal Corps moved flying training to Fort Sam Houston, near San Antonio, Texas, because of the cold, windy winter weather at College Park, Maryland. March 2: Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois made his first solo flight at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the time, he was the only pilot assigned to the Aeronautical Division of the Army Signal Corps and, thus, the only one with flying duty. March 19: At Montgomery, Alabama, Orville Wright opened the first Wright Flying School on a site that later became Maxwell Air Force Base. July 1: Capt. Arthur S. Cowan replaced Capt. Charles deForest Chandler as commander of the Signal Corps’s Aeronautical Division. August 4: Elmo N. Pickerill made the first radio-telegraphic communication between the air and ground while flying solo in a Curtiss pusher from Mineola, Long Island, to Manhattan Beach and back. An early Curtiss aircraft equipped with a steering wheel 1909–10 5
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1944 April 25: Lt. Carter Harman of
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1944-45 September 10: The C-82, the
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1945 Command dropped two Allied air
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1945-46 August 14: Twentieth Air Fo
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1947-48 October 14: Capt. Charles E
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1948-49 July 20: Sixteen F-80 Shoot
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1949-50 May 11: President Harry S.
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1950 August 16: In the largest empl
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1950-51 December 20: In Operation C
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1951 The Douglas C-124 Globemaster
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1952-53 September 30: The Bell Rasc
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1954 1954 March 1: The United State
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1955-56 78 tle Air Force Base, Cali
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1957 1957 January 18: Commanded by
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1958 1958 January 1: The Air Force
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1958-59 intervention resulted in po
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1959 June 3: The Air Force Academy
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1960-61 speed of 614 miles per hour
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1961-62 June 1: At Kincheloe Air Fo
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1962-63 tal ballistic missile when
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1964-65 craft was a strategic bombe
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1965 June 3-7: Maj. James A. McDivi
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1966 March 10: To rescue Maj. Daffo
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1967 were trapped and killed by a f
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1967 The F-111, sometimes called th
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1968 March 25: The 944th Military A
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1968-69 December 31: The Tupolev Tu
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1970 April 14: A C-141 Starlifter c
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1971-72 nonstop flight, at times at
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1972-73 December 18: President Rich
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1973-75 involved the resources of M
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1975-76 May 15: Cambodia returned t
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1976-77 earthquake. The aircraft al
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1977-78 October 12: The first class
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1979-80 March 31: Maj. James E. McA
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1981 1981 January-June: Operating f
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1981-82 November 23: During the BRI
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1983-84 August 30: Lt. Col. Guion S
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1985-86 June 21-July 25: Flying 73
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1986-87 June 19: All USAF Rapier su
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1988 1988 January 1: Strategic Air
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1989-90 restore democracy in Panama
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1991 138 helicopter to rescue the p
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1991-92 later provided aerial prote
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1992 ended on February 28 of the ne
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1993 June 17: Lt. Col. Patricia For
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1994 Galeb attack aircraft over Bos
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1995 April 8: Despite being hit 12
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1996-97 during its development phas
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1997-98 September 7: At Dobbins Air
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1999 1999 January 24: A Navy F-18 l
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1999-2000 Treaty of 1977. The Unite
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2001 April 23: The RQ-4A Global Haw
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2001 Lockheed Martin’s X-35A Join
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2002 May 13: President George W. Bu
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