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."
Foulois warns that unless
enough emphasis is put on the
military uses of space, that
"when we start flying around
in space we'll find a ship
with a hammer and sickle on
it."
"They're going to say,
'boys, we're running the show
up here. You get on back
down there!'," Foulois said.
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