On March 2, 1910, Benjamin Foulois coaxed a 30-horsepower, two-propeller biplane to 200 feet — barely over one-fourth the height of today’s Tower of the Americas.
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On March 2, 1910, Benjamin Foulois coaxed a 30-horsepower, two-propeller biplane to 200 feet — barely over one-fourth the height of today’s Tower of the Americas.
