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An Incipient Mutiny - The Story of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pilot Revolt (Hardcover)
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An Incipient Mutiny - The Story of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pilot Revolt (Hardcover)
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An Incipient Mutiny covers the period 1892 to 1918, the years
during which Army Aviation was a part of the Signal Corps. This is
a historical account of mismanagement, criminal fraud, and
cover-up, as well as self-promotion, shortsightedness, and
political intrigue. The author has focused on the personalities of
the pilots who formed the rebellion and on the Signal Corps
officers whose mismanagement brought it on. The official air force
histories have ignored what happened at Texas City in the spring of
1913. They rarely mention the Goodier court martial in 1915, and
they gloss over the outcome and the findings of the Garlington
Board and the Kennedy Committee in 1916. The official histories say
nothing about the poor construction and design flaws in the
airplanes the Signal Corps bought that killed 25 percent of the
officers who were rated pilots between May 1911 and July 1914. The
death rate among army pilots was so high that no life insurance
company would issue them a policy. At the same time, there were
airplanes on the market that were superior in every way to the
planes the army was using, and less expensive to buy.
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