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FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE

few passengers were carried. Frank took out patents on their new method of control and in June they exhibited one of their 8-cylinder engines at the Newark Automobile Show in the Essex Armory.

During the spring of 1910 Frank, Joseph and Kimball organized the New Jersey Aeronautical Society to encourage local interest in aviation. Late in 1910 the nacelle was added to the Blue machine. Their unique jib control was non-infringing with the Wright Brothers patents and were very positive and simple. There was no rudder, no ailerons nor wing warping. Instead they used a triangular resistence-making surface, called a jib, at the outer end of the main planes between the wings. Each jib was pivoted on an oblique axis from the lower front strut to the upper rear strut and was movable inward, in one direction only. The operation was similar to that of steering an automobile. In turning, the steering wheel was rotated in the direction it was desired to go, the jib  on that side pulled in and the plane banked and turned. To straighten out, the control was simply returned to neutral. Lateral control was obtained by presenting the jib on the high side at a negative angle as in steering. Two of their 8-cylinder engines were sold that year, the first one to Earle Remington of California and then one to Charles Lake of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Financing the work was a continual problem and materially limited their program.

Early in 1911 Frank have up the Correja field due to rough ground and too many trees, and moved all material and equipment in their hangar to a shop in the Gordon Press Works, Rahway, and his flying operations to Mineola, Long Island, New York. Frank started to build four new "Bluebird" biplanes in the Gordon Press Works shop and Joseph was working on six additional engines, one of which was a 4-cylinder model for school machine use. Several notables visited the brothers during 1911 to see what they were doing, among them Thomas A. Edison and Wilbur Wright who wanted to determine whether their jib control infringed Wright patents. He agreed it did not and praised their progressive original work. He stated that the tight turns by the Boland plane in flight were the smallest he had ever seen.

During the spring of 1912 Charles Hoeflich and Horace Kimmerle were flying

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