""An Incipient Mutiny" traces the creation of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Aeronautical Division in 1907 up to the establishment of the Air Service of the National Army in 1918. It is a shocking account of shortsightedness, mismanagement, criminal fraud, and cover-up that led ultimately to a pilot revolt against the military establishment. Dwight R. Messimer focuses on the personalities of the pilots who initiated the rebellion and on the Signal Corps officers whose mismanagement brought it on." --Provided by publisher.

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The Aballoons, 1892-1908 -- Benjamin D. Foulois, 1909-1911 -- Paul Ward Beck, 1911-1912 -- The Benjamin Foulois-Paul Beck feud, 1911-1913 -- The Flying Club, 1911-1912 -- The first signs of trouble, 1912 -- Upheavals, 1913 -- An incipient mutiny, March 1913 -- Beck makes his move, 1913 -- Cowen's flight pay, 1913-1915 -- The seeds of rebellion, 1911-1914 -- William Lay Patterson, 1914-1915 -- The rift, 1914-1915 -- Rebellion, 1915 -- The reaction, 1915 -- The turn-around, 1915 -- Court martial, 1915 -- The Garlington Board and the Kennedy Committee, 1916 -- Separation achieved, 1917-1918 -- Epilogue.