The Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station was sponsored by aviation pioneer Glenn H. Curtiss on a 20-acre tract east of Newport News (VA) Boat Harbor in the Fall of 1915 with Captain Thomas Scott Baldwin as head.
Following in his older brother Hillary's footsteps, he worked as a ground crewman for dirigible pilot Thomas Scott Baldwin.
Thomas Scott Baldwin (1860–1923), U.S. Army Major and pioneer balloonist
In 1914 he returned to dirigible design and development, and built the U.S. Navy's first successful dirigible, the DN-I.
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