Super Testnet on Nostr: I also learned that after the Balloon Corps stopped service in 1863, the Signal Corps ...

I also learned that after the Balloon Corps stopped service in 1863, the Signal Corps Balloon Service was established in 1892 by an officer who had witnessed the Balloon Corps in action and thought it was underused. This group used a hot air balloon for a reconnaissance mission in 1892 during the Spanish American War, flown by the first non-civilian pilot, Sargeant Ivy Baldwin. The Balloon Service continued training pilots through 1907, when it got replaced by the Signal Corps Aeronautical Division, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force.