Very young compared to the first flying service of the United States.
It’s young if you compare it to the RAF.Very young compared to the first flying service of the United States.
It’s young if you compare it to the RAF.Very young compared to the first flying service of the United States.
Pretty much any flying service is younger compared to the RAF. Unless of course you count @Grey Havoc historic considerations above (#4) for military operation of vehicles operating elevated off the ground, which I fully endorse. In which case the United States Army is the oldest. Unless of course Napoleon did something of that sort. Having thrown the rock I now do my best Bugs Bunny retreat into my lavishly appointed hole.It’s young if you compare it to the RAF.Very young compared to the first flying service of the United States.
If it is British Army aviation we are talking about, then the British Army's first major experiments in Ballooning took place at Aldershot around 1862, though it wasn't until 1878 that such experimentation was put on a really official footing, with the setting up of the Balloon Equipment Store at Woolwich Arsenal. Experiments with man-lifting kites began in 1892, but it was the efforts of a certain Samuel Franklin Cody in the early 1900s that really got the British Army engaged in that particular area of aviation.
For a bit more on the ballooning side of things: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/resear...tion-1862-1912/early-military-ballooning.aspx
In which case the United States Army is the oldest.