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[[crossed-out]]and [[/crossed-out]] Haupt became their General Manager. 
In November, 1909, Mr. Rodman Wanamaker imported a French-built type XI single-seater Bleriot [[crossed-out]]M[[/crossed-out]]monoplane with 25-35 [[crossed-out]]H.P.[[/crossed-out]] h.p. fan-type Anzani engine. The plane was on exhibition in his Philadelphia store for some time, then was sold to Louis J. Bergdoll, owner of the Bergdoll Motor Company. Mr. Bergdoll announced that he and Haupt were going to learn to fly it for sport. As a result Haupt taught himself to fly this plane during the summer of 1910. 

He became one of the founding members of the newly formed Pennsylvania Aero Club, and that year they established their own flying field at the Philadelphia Motordrome Grounds near Clementon, New Jersey. [[crossed-out]] There also [[/crossed-out]] That [[crossed-out]] F [[/crossed-out]]fall, Curtiss aviator Charles Willard made exhibition flights there on September 24th and 25th. Local Philadelphia newspaper man, Henry M. Neely was the leading figure of the [[crossed-out]]C[[/crossed-out]] club, which was very active at that time. In early November, 1910, the [[crossed-out]]C[[/crossed-out]] club put on an Aero Show in Philadelphia, managed by Neely, with a group of member assistants. Several planes, gliders and motors were shown, and as a result of these activities Haupt became extremely interested in flying, made up his mind to quit the motor car business and go into aviation full time. 

During the early Spring of 1911 he decided to go to New York where he could learn more about [[crossed-out]]the[[/crossed-out]] flying [[crossed-out]] game [[/crossed-out]]. In May Haupt was again making practice flights in a Bleriot at Mineola, and rapidly becoming 

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