One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University
One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University
One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University
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April 27: <strong>The</strong> Signal Corps accepted its second and third military airplanes,<br />
a Curtiss IV Model D and a Wright Type B, at Fort Sam Houston, San<br />
Antonio, Texas.<br />
May 8: <strong>The</strong> Navy ordered its first airplane, an A–1 amphibian, from Glenn<br />
Curtiss. By July the service was flying this aircraft at Hammondsport,<br />
New York.<br />
June 20: When he returned from the Army Signal School at Fort Leavenworth,<br />
Kansas, Capt. Charles deForest Chandler replaced Capt. Arthur<br />
S. Cowan as head <strong>of</strong> the Aeronautical Division.<br />
July 3: <strong>The</strong> Army Signal Corps designated the flying field at College Park,<br />
Maryland, as the Signal Corps Aviation School. <strong>The</strong> War Department<br />
appointed Capt. Charles deForest Chandler as the school’s commander.<br />
Among the school’s instructors were 2d Lt. Henry H. “Hap” Arnold and<br />
2d Lt. Thomas DeWitt Milling, who had just learned to fly at the Wright<br />
school in Dayton, Ohio.<br />
Lt. Henry H. Arnold in a Wright B airplane, College Park, Maryland,<br />
1911. Arnold was commander <strong>of</strong> the Army <strong>Air</strong> Forces in World<br />
War II.<br />
1911<br />
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