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    of the United States Air Force. A component of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the Aeronautical Division procured the first powered military aircraft in 1909...
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    the United States Air Force. It absorbed and replaced the Aeronautical Division, Signal Corps, and conducted the activities of Army aviation until its...
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    this topic, see Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps and Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps On 1 August 1907, an Aeronautical Division was established...
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    the Model B but was specifically designed to offer the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps a long-range scouting aircraft. It featured a more powerful...
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    market, the Wrights were able to sell aircraft to the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps (S.C. 3, 4, and 5) and to the United States Navy as hydroplanes...
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    as cleanup operations. In 1907, he was assigned to the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps at Fort Myer, Virginia, where he was later instructed in...
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  • Service, the Division of Military Aeronautics, Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, to the birth of Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps on 1 August...
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    and aerial mapping. The first aircraft acquired by the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps were not fighters or bombers but reconnaissance aircraft...
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    1911) was the 12th pilot of the U.S. Army's Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps and the first member of the U.S. military killed in the crash of...
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    exist in static display.  United States of America Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps Data from US Army Aircraft 1908-1946 General characteristics...
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    Lewis H. Brereton (category United States Army Coast Artillery Corps personnel)
    military pilots of the United States Army, assigned to the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps in September 1912. He was also one of five officers (the...
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    States Aeronautical Reserve military contacts were the Army’s Brigadier General James Allen, Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps, Chief Signal Officer;...
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    a United States reconnaissance seaplane built for the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps in 1913. It was of conventional Wright Model B design but...
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  • which had been the final designation of the original Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps. On May 20, 1918, by Executive Order 2862, issued under...
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    Military Flyer, a two-seat observation aircraft, for the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps. It served until 1911, by which time powered aircraft had...
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    was operated by the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps, which purchased two examples of the Model E-4 (Signal Corps numbers S.C. 6 and 8), built...
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  • Model D was purchased in April 1911 by the Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Army Signal Corps as a trainer (S.C. No. 2), and by the Navy as an airborne...
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    aviation services of the U.S. Army, as de facto head of the flying section of the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps in 1911 and as a senior officer...
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    celebrated the ruby jubilee of the 1907 establishment of the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps. It officially came into being after the signing of the...
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  • Forces procurement of aircraft began when the Army's 1907 Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps, acquired several of the Wright Military Flyer of 1909...
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    Benjamin Foulois (category Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army))
    assignment was duty with the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps, where he operated the first dirigible balloon of the U.S. government. The crash of...
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    an American military aviator, and the first head of the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps, that later became the United States Air Force. He was...
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    the Coast Artillery until 1912. In 1913 Clark joined the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps. In 1914, Clark attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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    wanted to learn to fly, he requested a transfer to the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps in 1913, without knowing that only an officer could become...
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    George Owen Squier (category Chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army)
    Chief Signal Officer, U.S. Signal Corps in 1907, Squier was instrumental in the establishment of the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps, the first...
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    the Philippine Islands and in 1913 was detailed to the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps, for pilot training. Taliaferro was married to Leicester...
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    Signal Corps, 21 June 1860 The Signal Corps was authorized as a separate branch of the army by act of Congress on 3 March 1863. However, the Signal Corps...
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    measurement of pilot skill. Before that time most pilots of the Aeronautical Division, Signal Corps soloed by the "short hop method" (also known as "grass-cutting")...
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    Vernon Burge (category Air Corps Tactical School alumni)
    newly formed Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps under Captain Charles deForest Chandler. At that time, the Aeronautical Division was composed of...
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