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Its flight tests at Baltimore were highly successful. Reportedly they soon had some orders, and the first plane was shipped to W. D. Davidson, Detroit, Michigan, on April 28. Tony went there to supervise the assembly and make some demonstration flights. About this time the Jannus Brothers Company signed a contract with the Toledo Railway and Light Company of Toledo, Ohio, to operate a flying boat at Toledo Beach Resort for two months starting July 1. A second flying boat was under construction at Baltimore, then for some unknown reason Tony left to join the Curtiss-Toronto Company in mid-June, as instructor and test pilot. Meanwhile, he and Rodger decided to move their business from Baltimore to Toledo, where Rodger flew for the summer at Toledo Beach. They also operated a school there.
In early July, Tony and Walter Johnson were sent to Russia by the Curtiss Company. In September Tony was back in Toronto to flight test a new large military plane, called the "Canada," which was at once successful. It was a huge biplane of 80 ft. span, with two Curtiss V-2, 160 h.p. engines. Tony's title was now Flight Engineer and he conducted all tests of this plan. Evidently while he was with the Curtiss-Toronto Company the Jannus Brothers Company was dissolved. After completing the tests of the "Canada" Tony was sent back to Russia where he remained until March, 1916. He then returned to Toronto for about a month, after which he was again sent to Russia as Engineering Representative and Acceptance Test Pilot for the Curtiss Company. Russia's increasing schedule for planes and parts made Tony's position there of increasing importance to the company. During the late summer and fall of 1916, the Buffalo Curtiss Division was sending over a prolonged series of Model K flying boats and Tony was getting them through acceptance tests on the Black Sea at Sevastopol. About this time two H-7 Curtiss flying boats were also delivered and while testing the second of these, Tony met with a fatal accident on October 12, 1916. Evidently while flying at about 2,000 feet he ran into serious trouble, crashed and burned in the water.
Flying Pioneer Tony Jannus was certainly most extraordinary. Self taught, as flying first began to take hold in 1910, on a plane that did well to fly at all, he went on to become one of our most valuable and renowned early aviators.

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