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THURSDAY. MAY 9. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Aviation Pioneer Urges Emphasis In Use of Space By CARLTON WILSON United Press International Albuquerque, N.M. - UP0 The man who invented the airplane seat belt had an ex perience comparable to Sir Isaac Newton, who discover ed the law of gravity when an apple fell on him as he at under a tree. Ma. Gen. Benjamin Fou lois (ret.) was pilot of the only military plane In the na tion nearly 80 years ago when Foulois almost fell out of the cockpit. He was saved only because hii head hit the up per wing causing him to bounce back In the seat. Foulois, now 83 and a walk ing history book of aviation, says the harrowing expert' ence helped lead him to in vent the seat belt that has since saved countless lives In automobiles as well as air planes. The spry aviation pioneer recently visited the air force . special weapons center a Klrtiand Air Force base in Albuquerque. Foulois found the scientific complex in stark contrast to the city's old airport 35 years ago when he flew Into it in a spindly single-seater. Spends Money In those days of pioneer aviators Foulois once spent $300 from his own pocket to , keep America s one and only military airplane flying, He was taught to fly by Wilbur Wright in 1909. in 84 minutes of personal instruc tion. Then Foulois, who pro nounces his name Fuh-loy, was put in charge of a Kitty Hawk-type aircraft based at San Antonio, Tex. It was the first military plane In the nation. Woulois soon spent his $180 budget and had to fi nance operations out of his own pay and from donations. The Wright brothers con tinued to advise the nation's first army pilot by mail, prob ably making Foulois the first correspondence school flyer in the world. Now an alert gray-haired man whose only concession to advanced age is a transistor hearing aid in his let ear, Foulois recalled his first mili tary flight from Fort Sam Houston: "I soloed, made my first take off, my first landing and first crack-up all in the same day, " Foulois said. Attains Spaed His biplane attained a top speed of 48 miles per hour powered by its 28 horsepower engine. On one of his flights, Fou lois discovered he was drift ing over San Antonio which was north of the airfield. But his nose was pointed south. "A high wind and you flew backwards in those days," he laughed. In 1918 the general led the country's first air squadron on a reconnaisance mission with Gen. John Pershing in Mexico against bandit Pancho Villa. Of eight planes in the group only two came back, and those two had to be de clared unusable, Foulois said. Pershing said after the cam paign that one airplane was worth a regiment of cavalry Develops Bombers Other "firsts" for Foulois Include the operation of a radio installed in an airplane, and transmission of the first telegram from a plane. He won the rank of brigadier general in World War I at the age of 38. He headed the Army Air Corps from 1930 to 1935, doing much to de velop the B17 and B24 bomb. ers later used in World War II. Foulois retired in 1935 and "spent the next 24 years in civil confinement." He has not piloted a plane since then, but has flown as a passenger more than 300,000 miles mk Ing speeches for the Air Force since he accepted an advisory post in 1859. His message to service clubs and civic groups throughout the nation is a terse one: People have tended to be come complacent and down' grade the needs of the mill' tary In the space age. We've got the brainpower, but we've , got to spend the money." 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