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boat.  On October 26th Bragg made a noteworthy flight spreading Liberty Loan literature over eight towns up the Hudson River valley.  Starting from Port Washington, carrying Phil Boyer as a passenger, they went as far north as Troy, where they landed to refuel.  After a brief rest they returned to Long Island.  The flight consumed three hours out and  two hours return.  For that flight Bragg won the Curtiss Marine Trophy for 1917.

    Early in 1918 Bragg became a civilian test pilot for the Army Engineering Division, Bureau of Aircraft Production, and was stationed at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, where he remained until 1920.  During this period, he was commissioned Captain in the U.S. Army Air Service and made Director of Flying Activities.  In October, 1918, he flew from Dayton to Washington, D.C., flying 430 miles nonstop in three hours, in a DH-4 plane, and carrying an engineering officer as passenger.  He then flew to New York, returning nonstop to Dayton.

    After the war Bragg laid the groundwork for forming the Wright Aeronautical Corporation out of what had been Wright-Martin; he then became a Director of Wright Aero.  On September 29, 1919, Bragg, carrying a passenger, set a new Hydro-Monoplane World Altitude Record of 18,750 feet at Port Washington, Long Island, flying a 300-h.p. Hispano-powered, Loening monoplane on floats.

    In 1920 he invented a good vacuum booster brake for trucks and formed the Bragg-Kleisrath Corporation to manufacture them.  Later this firm was taken over by the Bendix Corporation and Bragg became a Director of Bendix.  In the twenties he became an ardent race boat fan and from 1924 to 1930 had Wright Aero developing their latest Hispano engines into racing marine engines.  With these special power plants, Bragg won three Gold Cup Awards during that time.

    Bragg never lost his interest in aviation and assisted with the technical and contest arrangements for the National Air Races for several years.  Later he became vice-president of a firm to develop a molded plastic plywood