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[[stamped]] FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE [[/stamped]

but Uppercue objected to entering into Government contracts. As a result Albert and Uppercu dissolved their operations and Albert formed the A.S. Heinrich Company with offices at 141 Broadway, New York City, to go on with the bomber development by himself. He then went to Washington, D.C. to see Captain V.E. Clark and General George Squires about arranging for bids on the bomber, and following his visit a contract was given him for two planes. However, the conditions to be met were so severe that he cancelled it, and at Captain Clark's suggestion went ahead on a single engine military fighter plane, to be powered by an American-built Gnome rotary engine. A contract was awarded for two of these planes and he then took over the former Heinrich Shop at Freeport, Long Island to build them.

Meanwhile Arthur left Bellance in the fall of 1916 and moved to Jacksonville, Florida as instructor for the Dodge School of Aviation, remaining there until the spring of 1917 when he returned to Long Island and rejoined Albert. The first single seater fighter was completed and test flights were made by Albert at Langley Field, Hampton, Virginia in early 1917, where it had an average speed of 114.7 miles per hour and a service ceiling of 15,000 feet. About this time Albert changed the name of the firm to Victor Aircraft Corporation, and following tests received a contract for the four additional fighter planes, redesigned somewhat, two with 110 H.P. British Clerget and two with 150 H.P. Gnome engines. In early 1917 Albert became one of the founder members of the newly formed Aircraft Manufacturers Association.

The four fighter planes on contract were complete and delivered to McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio in 1918, but Albert did not flight test these as he was busy on another single engine fighter design for Colonel J.G. Vincent, Commanding Officer of McCook Field, using a liberty engine. This plane was under construction at the Starr Piano Company, Richmond, Indiana at the time of the Armistice in November, 1918, following which the contract was cancelled. Arthur was not working with Albert on this project at that time.

Albert kept his personal airplane ventures going until 1920. In April, 1920 Arthur conducted the preliminary flight tests of the new Orenco Biplane for the

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