On Mar. 2, 2018, Joint Base San Antonio celebrated the 108th anniversary of the first military flight made by Army Lt. Benjamin Foulois at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston on March 2, 1910. The original Signal Corps Aircraft No. 1 flown by Foulois was a Canard biplane with a four-cylinder Wright 30.6-horsepower engine driving two wooden propellers via a sprocket-and-chain transmission system. “Old Number One,” America’s first military airplane, was an earlier machine than the Model B the Wright Brothers began building in their Dayton, Ohio, factory in 1910. U.S. Air Force video by Marcelo Joniaux.
Date Taken: | 03.02.2018 |
Date Posted: | 03.08.2018 17:32 |
Category: | Package |
Video ID: | 588608 |
VIRIN: | 180306-F-GD062-1001 |
Filename: | DOD_105388361 |
Length: | 00:01:33 |
Location: | TEXAS, US |
Downloads: | 8 |
High-Res. Downloads: | 8 |
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