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New York, for G.C. Beidler of Rochester, New York.  In December the American Aeroplane Supply Company suffered a bad fire at Hampstead, losing three completed planes.

About April 1 [[crossed out]] st [[/crossed out]], 1914, Hild was engaged to do test flying for his Maximillian Schmitt at Paterson, New Jersey, on a new monoplane with 

[[margin]] Paterson or Peterson [[/margin]]

Gnome engine.  In early May Hild talked about the possibility of making a flight from Paterson [[crossed out]] e [[/crossed out]] 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 hp" [[crossed out]] H.P [[/crossed out]] 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 the American Aviation Supply House went out of business but over the winter months of 1914-1915 Hild entered into a partnership with William C. Diehl of North Bergen, New Jersey, to start a flying school.  Diehl 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 success would be better in the Middle West, so they shipped all equipment to Chicago, where they open 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 at Sheepshead Bay, Long Island in the spring of 1916, with both Hild and Diehl 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 a 8 cylinder 120 hp"[[crossed out]] H.P. [[/crossed out]] Maximotor.  Edward Marshonet joined the firm as a designer and construction engineer and a small factory was set put to build planes, designed to meet government specifications. Their first [[crossed out]] finished [[/crossed out]] 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 re-

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