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16. Who built first "hydro-aeroplanes"? (Plane with pontoons.) (Where -- When)

17. Who built first flying boats? Where? When? (also, who used terms; airboats; aeroboats? flying boats?)

18. Please give names, addresses (if you can) of [[underlined]] any [[/underlined]] pilots who worked with Benoist, or who bought and operated Benoist planes. (Either living or dead.)

19. Do you know if a passenger ever was killed, or seriously injured, in a Benoist plane, owned and operated by Benoist or his company aviators? (Who, where, when?)

20. Do you know of any collection of Benoistiana; photographs, news clippings, magazine articles or business papers? (Please give name of paper or magazine, also article, page no., in whose possession.)

21. What would you say was most safe, reliable and economical plane being built in 1914?

22. What do you know of [[underlined]] any [[/underlined]] passenger operations up to 1922?

23. If you piloted a plane between 1912 & 1914, did you record gas and oil consumption? Can you give figures? Price of gas and oil at that time?
(Please tell what brands you used, where you operated.)

24. If you care to, detail here your own experiences with planes of that era: Material will be filed for use of aviation historians. THIS IS IMPORTANT: there exists nowhere, unless in files of Major E.L. Jones, anything like full accounts of early American aviators, plane builders, except Wrights and Curtiss. (If you know of any such files, please let us know for aid of other historians.) (use other side of paper)

25. What did "JN" stand for? Curtiss JN-4D aircraft?