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one of the Long Island aviation fraternity. [[crossed-out]] The renowned Captain Thomas Baldwin complimented him on his rapid progress. [[crossed-out]] Haupt soon decided to buy his own plane [[crossed-out]] and go into the exhibition business. [[crossed-out]] Accordingly he placed an order with Fred Hild, of the American Aeroplane Supply House of Garden City, for a single-seater Bleriot Monoplane copy, with a 4-cylinder, 50 [[crossed-out]] Roberts engine. This order start-ed Hild in the [[crossed-out]] airplanes construction business, as up until that time his firm was merely a [[crossed-out]] upply [[crossed-out]]ouse, specializing in Bleriot parts and materials. Reportedly this plane was made from measurements taken from Earl Ovington's new Bleriot which he had brought to the United States only a few weeks previously.
 
Haupt's new plane was completed in June, 1911, and he made his first [[crossed-out]] 12 [[/crossed-out]] twelve-minute test flight with it at Mineola, Long Island, on June 30th. The flight was entirely successful and was quickly followed by two more flights. Haut flew his plane again the following day and was so pleased with it that he shipped it to Altoona, Pennsylvania, at once for an exhibition there. Henry Neely, an Aero Club friend, was his exhibition manager. After filling the Altoona engagement Haupt flew at Alcyum Park near Philadelphia. During the week of July 17th he flew at Cape May, New Jersey. 

On July 28th Haupt was back at Mineola to con-duct the initial flight tests of a two-seater for Hild. This plane was built for J. Albert Brackett

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