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1929–31 August 15: Flying a Buhl sesquiplane called Spokane Sun God, Lt. Nicholas B. Mamer and Arthur Walker traveled nonstop from Spokane, Washington, to the east coast and back, refueling in the air 11 times on the 7,200-mile flight. August 29: Graf Zeppelin, under the command of Dr. Hugo Eckener, completed the first airship flight around the world. Originating and ending in Lakehurst, New Jersey, the trip took 21 days. September 24: Lt. James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle made the first instrumentsonly flight, from takeoff to landing. He flew over Mitchel Field, New York, in a Consolidated NY–2 airplane with a completely covered cockpit, accompanied by a check pilot who monitored the flight. November 29: Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd of the Navy made the first flight over the South Pole in the Floyd Bennett, a Ford C–4 Trimotor airplane piloted by Bernt Balchen and named for the pilot who had taken Byrd over the North Pole in 1926. 1930 June 20: The Air Corps established Randolph Field at San Antonio, Texas, for primary and basic pilot training. Known as the “West Point of the Air,” the field eventually became headquarters of Air Education and Training Command. October 8: Near Rome, Maj. Marinello Nelli of Italy’s Regia Aeronautica completed the first official helicopter flight in a twin-rotor aircraft designed by Corrandino D’Ascanio. The craft flew to a height of 59 feet on a flight that lasted more than eight minutes. October 25: Transcontinental and Western Air, Incorporated, inaugurated the first transcontinental passenger air service between New York and Los Angeles. November 10: Flying a Lockheed Sirius Blue Flash powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp radial engine, Capt. Roy W. Ammel of the Army completed the first solo nonstop flight from New York to the Panama Canal Zone, having flown 2,700 miles in 24 hours and 35 minutes. 1931 January 9: Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Army chief of staff, and Adm. William V. Pratt, chief of naval operations, came to a verbal agreement that the Army Air Corps would have primary responsibility for coastal defense. 28
May 21–30: Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, assistant to the chief of the Air Corps, commanded a provisional division in the largest Air Corps maneuvers to date, involving 667 airplanes and 1,400 men in flights over several northeastern and midwestern states. Foulois coordinated the operations of a pursuit wing, a bombardment wing, an attack group, two observation wings, and a transport group. May 27: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics began operating the first full-scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes at Langley Field, Virginia. July 15: The Air Corps Tactical School moved from Langley Field, Virginia, to Maxwell Field, Alabama. It produced most of the Air Corps’s air doctrine during the 1930s, including the concept of long-range, high-altitude daylight precision bombing of selected military and industrial targets—the fundamental strategy of the Army Air Forces in World War II. September 26: At Newport News, Virginia, the Navy laid the keel of the USS Ranger, the first ship designed from scratch as an aircraft carrier. October 5: Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., completed the first nonstop flight across the Pacific, flying from Japan to Wenatchee, Washington. October 7: The Navy, with Army observers present, tested a new bombsight invented by Carl J. Norden. Subsequently, the Navy provided the Air Corps with these Norden bombsights—the most advanced devices of their kind used by the Army Air Forces in World War II. December 20: Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois succeeded Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet as chief of the Air Corps. Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of the Air Corps from 1931 to 1935 1931 29
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