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During the Winter 1910-11, he was flying new types of monoplanes at the flying field of the French Aeronautical Society "Astra" at Pau in Southern France, to which the Bleriot School had ^the^ maoved [[strikethrough]] at that time [[/strikethrough]]. 

In May 1911, Studenski came to the United States. After some brief engagements in the East, including flying at the Moisant Aviation Field in Mineola (which later became known as the Roosevelt Field), he became an aviation instructor, test pilot, and exhibition flyer for the National Aeroplane Company of Chicago. He barnstormed at state and county fairs ^[[all over the country,]] like Hamilton, Baldwin, and Lincoln Brachey. Using [[strikethrough]] intermittently [[/strikethrough]] ^[[interchangeably]] the Bleriot Monoplane, the Curtiss biplane, and the Beach National biplane which was then the largest plane in the United States, he made exhibition flights therewith as far West as the Mountain states and as far South as the Carolinas and the State of Texas, [[strikethrough]] and was [[strikethrough]] ^[[becoming]] known as one of the most versatile flyers of the time.

In 1912 ^[[he]] made some experimental air-mail carrying flights for the U.S. Post Office in Texas and in Illinois and he participated successfully at the International Aviation Meet in Chicago in June of that year, [[strikethrough]] competing against planes and aviators of several countries. [[/strikethrough]]. 

In 1912, Studenski gave up professional flying, reentered a university, and within a few years became an economist of no lesser note than he was an aviator. He is now professor emeritus at New York University.

Studenski will soon be celebrating with his wife their golden anniversary. They have a son who is physician with a private pilot's certificate; a daughter who is a member of the academic profession; and five grandchildren who are still too young to decide whether to navigate a plane, to don the academic gown, or to stay on solid ground in some other occupation. He lives in New York City near New York University and he maintains a home at Brentwood, Long Island where in his [[strikethrough]] large [[/strikethrough]] library among his scientific books he keeps some of the mementoes of his early flying.