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Schmitt at Paterson, New Jersey, on a new monoplane with a Gnome engine. In early May Hild talked about the possibility of making a flight from P[[strikethrough]]e[[/strikethrough]]aterson to Washington, D. C., with this plane to demonstrate it to government officials. This cross-country flight attempt was cancelled but Hild remained with Schmitt through May demonstrating the plane to various officials. In July he was giving daily exhibitions at Secaucus, New Jersey, flying a Bleriot with 60[[strikethrough]]-horsepower [[/strikethrough]] h.p. Ashmusen engine. Apparently, in the fall of 1914 Hild went to Europe where he was connected with the French Aviation Reserve for a time at Tours.

It is not recorded just when he American Aviation Supply House went out of business but over the winter month of 1914-1915 Hild entered into a partnership with William C. Diel of North Bergen, New Jersey, to start a flying school. Diel had built a monoplane and made some hops in it at the Guttenberg Race Track there and also had acquired three other planes. They decided their chances of succes [[success]] would be better in the Middle West so they shipped all equipment to Chicago, where they opened their school in the spring of 1915. This venture was not a success, so they shipped everything back East that fall and established the Eastern School of Aviation and Sheepshead Bay, Long Island, in the spring of 1916, with both Hild and Diel as instructors. The school was quite a success and a goodly number of students were taught to fly. 

Later that spring the company announced their new Eastern tandem tractor biplane using an 8-cylinder, 120-horsepower Maximotor. Edward Marshonet joined the firm as designer and construction engineer and a small factory was set up to build planes, designed to meet government specifications. Their first airplane was demonstrated and offered for military training service at that time. First flight tests were made in late September, 1916, and favorable comments were soon received for excellent workmanship and good flying qualities. 

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