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1912–13 A Curtiss G tractor biplane. First purchased by the Army in 1911, its front-mounted propeller pulled the aircraft through the air. December 8: The Signal Corps established an aviation school at North Island, San Diego, where Lt. Thomas DeWitt Milling developed the quick-release safety belt. 1913 February 17: The Army first tested an automatic pilot device made by Lawrence Sperry, who called it a gyrostabilizer. March 2: Congress approved flight pay of 35 percent over base pay to reward officers who volunteered for aviation duty. March 5: The Signal Corps established the 1st Provisional Aero Squadron at Texas City, Texas, to support U.S. troops responding to a revolution in Mexico. Designated a permanent unit in December and currently active as the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, it is the oldest squadron in the Air Force. May 10: Didier Masson, flying for Gen. Alvaro Obregon during the Mexican Revolution, conducted the first aerial bombing in the western hemisphere, attacking gunboats in the Gulf of California. August 8: An airplane flew in Hawaii for the first time, piloted by Lt. Harold Geiger of the Army from a new aviation school at Fort Kamehameha. 10
The aircraft, a Curtiss E two-seater (Signal Corps No. 8), soared over Pearl Harbor. Established in July, the school operated only about a year. c. November 30: Phil Rader and Dean Ivan Lamb, flying for opposing sides in the Mexican Revolution, engaged in the first aerial combat, firing pistol shots at one another over Naca, Mexico. 1914 1913–14 January 1: Tony Jannus inaugurated America’s first regularly scheduled airline when he flew passengers between Saint Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, in a Benoist flying boat. January 15: The Signal Corps Aviation School at San Diego issued an order prescribing the first safety regulations, which required aviators to wear helmets and coats. January 31: The Navy established its first air station at Pensacola, Florida. February 24: An Army investigative board at the Signal Corps Aviation School at San Diego recommended discontinuance of pusher-type airplanes, noting the large number of accidents and deaths in them. In a crash, a rear-mounted engine would often break loose and fall on the pilot. This recommendation threatened to condemn the Army’s Wright airplanes, all of which were pusher types. May 6: A Curtiss AH–3 hydroairplane, flown by Lt. P. N. L. Bellinger and Lt. R. C. Saufley of the Navy in a reconnaissance mission over Mexican positions near Vera Cruz, became the first U.S. airplane hit by hostile ground fire. June 24: The Signal Corps Aviation School at San Diego received its first Curtiss J, Signal Corps No. 29. Features of this airplane were later combined with those of the Curtiss N, received on December 11, to create the JN–2 trainer. July 7: The U.S. government issued a patent to Dr. Robert H. Goddard for a multistage rocket design. On July 14, the government issued another patent to Goddard for a liquid-fueled rocket design. These designs laid the foundation for future spaceflights. July 18: Congress passed a law creating an Aviation Section of the Army Signal Corps, which replaced the Aeronautical Division. Lt. Col. Samuel Reber, who had served as the last commander of the division, became the first commander of the Aviation Section, which consisted of only 19 officers and 101 enlisted men. July 28: Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, setting off World War I. On behalf of Serbia, Russia mobilized for war with Austria-Hungary, and 11
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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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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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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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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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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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