Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I noho a Selfridge ki te Presidio i te wā o te
Ko te ru nui o San Francisco i te 18 o Aperira, 1906. I uru tana roopu ki te rapu me te whakaora me nga mahi horoi horoi. I te tau 1907, i tohaina ia ki te Tari Aeronautical, U.S. Signal Corps i Fort Myer, Virginia, i reira i whakaakona ai ia ki te rere i te rererangi rererangi. Ko ia hoki te māngai o te kāwanatanga o Te Hononga o Amerika ki te Aerial Experiment Association, i arahina e Alexander Graham Bell, a ka noho ia hei kaitiaki tuatahi.