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bition of their various machines and Frank was chosen as one of the judges to rate the exhibits. One of the best machines shown was a 40-foot span biplane built by Dr. William Greene of New York. It had a 4-wheel Farman-type landing gear, biplane front elevator and twin rudders. Powered by a 4 cylinder, 26 H.P., automobile engine, this plane made brief successful hops.

After the event Dr. Greene was moving to Ohio and wished to sell the plane, so Frank, Kimball and Uppercu bought the machine and moved it to the Correja field in New Jersey. It was an easy matter to remove the tail, and add the Boland control jibs, after which Frank made some ground trials and was sure it would fly. He announced he was going to attempt a flight and a crowd gathered. He took off, flew a short distance and banged into a tree, but without much damage. On the second try he hit the tree again. Next time Joseph went along to work the jibs, Frank worked the elevator, and together they made a lengthy successful straight flight and landed satisfactorily, making not only the first flight in New Jersey, but with a passenger as well. This was in late November, 1909, and photographs were made of the flight.

Very little more was done with the Boland-Greene machine that fall and during the winter months Frank made many changes to this biplane with the triplane front elevator, and installed the Boland Vee-8 engine. He also built a new tailless biplane, called the "Blue" machine, which was his first plane made from drawings. It was intended for production and was changed very little in all the later Boland planes. The new Blue machine was first powered by the 50 H.P. Altham 2-cycle engine formerly used by Kimball in his helicopter.

During the early spring of 1910, Frank wrecked the Greene machine when he hit a tree during a half-mile flight. He was not injured but the plane was so badly damaged that only the engine and some small parts were salvaged, then the wreckage was burned. Following this Frank started flying the Boland biplane and after two more minor smashups, due to over-controlling, began flying well. [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] He also vastly improved the plane that year. Joseph and Hoeflich soloed and did some flying, and people began coming to see their flights. Later that year a 

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