History of Air Education And Training Command 1942 2002

Air Education and Training Command (AETC) traces its lineage back to 23 January 1942, when the War Department constituted and activated the Army Air Corps Flying Training Command. The purpose of this volume is to recount and commemorate the first 60 years of AETC history, but the history of aviation training in the United States military began much earlier. On 8 October 1909, Wilbur Wright began instructing Lieutenants Frank P. Lahm and Frederic E. Humphreys on Signal Corps Airplane No. 1, which