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where it operated on a large scale through that season.

Rinehart and Conover remained there until the late fall of 1916 when they returned to Dayton and sold E. A. Deeds and C. F. Kettering on the idea of starting another aviation venture in Dayton. Rinehart wanted to start a flying school, and it was decided to build a new training plane for this purpose. With the aid of Orville Wright and some of the earlier Wright Company employees, the plane was designed and built in eight weeks. Called the FS Trainer, it was a fine looking conventional tractor biplane, powered by a 4-cylinder 100 H.P. Hall-Scott engine, and Conover assisted in the construction.

North Field, Dayton, was established on the site that was later McCook Field and there, with some of these new trainers, instructors Rinehart, Freeman and Whelan taught another large group of American and Canadian students through the spring and summer of 1917. Out of this venture the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company was formed during the early summer of that year, and toward fall the Rinehart-Conover group was moved to the new Dayton-Wright experimental facility at South Field, located at Moraine, a short distance south of Dayton. North Field was then taken over by the Government and became McCook Field. At South Field Conover was placed in charge of all field service mechanics for executive and experimental aircraft, where he continued through World War I. 

At that time Dayton-Wright was building a large twin-float biplane designed for photographic mapping surveys in Canada. Called the F.P.-2, it was powered by two Hall-Scott Liberty 6-cylinder engines driving tractor propellers. Conover went with "Benny" Whelan to conduct preliminary flight tests of this plane at Toledo Beach, Ohio on Lake Erie where the plane proved to be badly out of balance and very under powered. As a result the plane was taken back to Dayton for revisions and two 12-cylinder Liberty engines were installed. The plane was then taken to Leamington, Ontario, Canada for further tests and was then successfully turned over to the Canadian owners.

Following this Conover was employed during mid-1919 by Mr. Knuhl, a Uniontown, Pennsylvania financier. There he personally made an OX-powered biplane, called the "Bluebird", with a welded steel tube fuselage, probably one of the 

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