Army Signal Corps specified that its first airplane should have a range of 125 miles, a minimum speed of 40 miles per hour, and could remain aloft for one hour while carrying two people. "Take plenty of spare parts," he told the young officer, "and teach yourself to fly." Foulois to his office and informed him that he was to become the sole flyer of the newly acquired Wright military airplane, designated Signal Corps No. James Allen, Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. His independent aviation career began inauspiciously. He earned an officer's commission during the fighting in the Philippine Islands at the turn of the Twentieth Century, and through courage, intelligence, and hard work-and a healthy dose of good luck-rose to the rank of major general and to command of the U.S. Foulois combined dedication, initiative, and energy with formidable ambition. Army and then into flying at a time when military aviation was just getting off the ground-so to speak. He was a tough, unpretentious, practical-minded former enlisted man whose spirit of adventure, ability to work with his hands, and interest in technical subjects led him first into the U.S. Army Air Service and Air Corps, and a founding father of the military airpower embodied in today's U.S. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois was a pioneer aviator who learned to fly at the inception of flight, a senior leader of the U.S.
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