After soloing in an airplane, securing a slice of military lore for himself and San Antonio, Lt. Benjamin Foulois liked to say he was “the first and only pilot in history to learn to fly by mail.” At ...

March 2 marked a monumental day in the legacy of aviation. On that day, 103 years ago, a young Army lieutenant named Benjamin Foulois made history when he piloted the Army's first aircraft, Signal ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO -- March 2 marked a monumental day in the legacy of aviation. On that day, 103 years ago, a young Army lieutenant named Benjamin Foulois made history when he piloted the Army's ...

SAN ANTONIO – More than a century ago, a young Army lieutenant named Benjamin Foulois made history when he piloted the Army's first aircraft over Fort Sam Houston. Foulois worked with the Wright ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An audio recording of military aviator Benjamin Delahauf Foulois's 1965 speech describing his early flying days and his time with the Wright 1909 ...

Don Gum sat on the wing of a Wright B Flyer, dressed fashionably by Army Signal Corps standards of 1910: a khaki shirt with fat pockets, pleated khaki slacks that ballooned toward brown boots and a ...

Tom Burger will give the free presentation, “Homegrown Hero: The Life of Benjamin Delaheuf Foulois” on Sunday, December, 21 at 1:00 pm in the Wykeham Room of the Gunn Memorial Library and Museum in ...

(FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas) -- At approximately 11 a.m. March 2, under clear blue skies, a vintage Stearman PT-17 and a Fairchild PTY-26 flew over the grounds of Fort Sam Houston commemorating the 99th ...

It was on this day in 1910, that Lt. Benjamin Foulois piloted the first army aircraft at Joint Base San Antonio-Ft. Sam Houston Meteorology likely played a role in the event, which saw Foulois take ...