Although the academy's location would not immediately be associated with flying, its aviation history began in 1915, when Brevet Brigadier General Maxwell Van Zandt Woodhull recommended that "there should be attached to the Academy a complete outfit of aeroplanes and hydroplanes, and Cadets should be required to make two or three ascensions a year, and to prepare and submit reports of their observations while in the air as a part of reconnoitering".
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