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Samuel Pierpont Langley

Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles M. Manly (left), chief mechanic and pilot on board the houseboat that launched Langley's Aerodrome aircraft over the Potomac River near Washington, D.C. in 1903. Even though he was one of the pioneers of flight in America, Langley never saw his dreams fulfilled. (Photo courtesy of NASA)
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Aerodrome Tests

EARLY YEARS -- By the end of 1893, Samuel P. Langley was conducting flight tests from atop a houseboat moored near Quantico on the Potomac River. After numerous failures, on May 6, 1896, his luck changed. He launched Aerodrome Number 5 out over the Potomac. It rose gracefully in a sweeping circle. It circled until its fuel gave outand then settled gently into the water.
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Major General Foulois

Maj. Gen. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois, the first chief of the Army Air Corps to be a military aviator, had a number of "firsts" in his long and illustrious career. His accomplishments spanned 56 years during active-duty and retired military aviation service.
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Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois

In 1910 Benjamin D. Foulois was sent to Texas with a Wright Pusher to establish the embryo of what developed into the U. S. Army Air Corps. He had to teach himself to fly with the assistance from the Wright Brothers in a series of letters. In a career that spanned six decades, Foulois designed the first airplane radio receiver, scouted Pancho Villa's rebels from an open-cockpit Curtis JN3 and demonstrated that the airplane was no longer an experiment or novelty, but a practical tool with many use military applications.
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Major General James E. Fechet

EARLY YEARS -- James E. Fechet was chief of the Army Air Corps from 1927 to 1931. During his long career, he saw America's air arm grow from three men to more than 2,300,000. Considered one of the founding fathers of the independent Air Force, he helped airpower prove its promise.
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Octave Chanute

Octave Chanute was born in Paris Feb. 18, 1832, and came to the United States as a child. He became a respected civil engineer and spent most of his adult life as an engineer in the railroad industry, but later gained international fame in the study of aeronautics.
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Octave Chanute

Octave Chanute came to the United States as a child. He spent most of his adult life as an engineer in the railroad industry, but later gained international fame in the study of aeronautics.
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Cpl. Eugene J. Bullard

Eugene Jacques Bullard, the world's first African-American combat pilot, was one of 200 Americans who flew for France in World War I.
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Corporal Eugene J. Bullard

EARLY YEARS -- Eugene Jacques Bullard, the first African-American combat pilot, was one of 200 Americans who flew for France in World War I.
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Gen. Frank M. Andrews

Newly appointed as a temporary brigadier general, Frank M. Andrews stands in front of a Martin B-12 bomber at Langley Field, Va., in March 1935. .
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Gen. Frank M. Andrews

Gen. Frank M. Andrews, theater commander of U.S. forces in the European theater of operations, was responsible for direction of the American strategic bombing campaign against Germany and planning the land invasion of occupied western Europe in 1943.
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General Frank M. Andrews

EARLY YEARS -- General Frank M. Andrews, a founding father of the independent Air Force, was born February, 1884, in Nashville, Tenn.
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Bebe Daniels and Lt. Col. Henry H. Arnold

Early Years -- Bebe Daniels and Lt. Col. Henry H. Arnold, Long Beach, California. (10/30/32)
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Wright B Airplane

Early Years -- Lieutenant Henry H. Arnold in Wright B Airplane, College Park, Maryland, 1911.
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Wilbur Wright

Early Years -- Wilbur Wright (center) explaining something about his flight.
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Wilbur Wright

Early Years -- Wilbur Wright
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Orville Wright at Air Races

Early Years -- Orville Wright at Air Races, Detroit, Mich., 1922.
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Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter

Early Years -- Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter, made first mid-air refueling, June 1923, at Rockwell Field.
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A-20

EARLY YEARS -- A-20
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