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OLD PILOT - 1
LS SCENE
about the time
A man who was airborne Kitty Hawk became
famous strides briskly onto Fort Sam Houston's Arthur
Mac Arthur Field at San Antonio, to mark the city'sgolden anniversary of military aviation.
Ret ired
Airforce Lieutenant-Colonel Vernon L. Burge, flanked
th e
by airforce brass, heads for a monument
* spot where, in 1910, Burge's commanding officer,
Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois, went aloft in a Wrightbrothers monoplane.
The monument was donated by the
3 Twtnio >aamber of commerce in 1955. Two years
after the fli ght, Foulois became the military's first.enlisted pilot.
73 year old Burge recalls the years
before 1910, when he was an enlistee 'in the Army Signal
Corps, sailing into the wild blue yonder in balloons,not airplanes.
That was a time, says Burge, when no-
Body but the 'right Brothersactually believed you
could make stick and cloth stay up in the air. . Even.,
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Old pilot], script, March 2, 1960; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862268/m1/1/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.