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in October, 1914. [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] Kantner did considerable flying with this plane there at that time. The various planes entered in the competition were: a Glenn Martin Tractor Biplane with 125 H.P. Hall-Scott engine; a special new Wright biplane with an imported Austro- [[strikethrough]] Damlier [[/strikethrough]] Daimler engine; the new Curtiss Model J Tractor Biplane with OX engine and the Burgess-Dunne with a French Salmson engine.

In January, 1915 Kantner joined the newly formed Huntington Aircraft Company, of New York City, as Factory Superintendent and Company Pilot. Work was started at once on a new Gyro- [[strikethrough]] motored [[/strikethrough]] engined tractor Scout biplane, and Kantner conducted the initial flight tests of this plane on March 7th, all of which were highly successful. He continued active testing and almost at once began carrying passengers. This activity continued through the summer months, during which time Kantner carried many notable passengers and demonstrated the plane before military officials of both United States and foreign governments. That summer a similar plane was built and delivered to Blair Thaw for sport use. About October Kantner left Huntington and went to Italy where he became an instructor for the Italian Ministry of Marine at Taranto. Also instructing there at that time were U. S. aviators J. Lansing Callan and Charles Fay. Kantner remained in Italy about one year then returned to the United States in the fall of 1916.

Over the winter months of 1916-1917 Kantner was an instructor on flying boats at the Curtiss School in Miami, Florida. During 1917 he instructed the twelve [[strikethrough]] -man [[/strikethrough]] student pilots of Yale Unit No. 2 at Buffalo, New York. On July 23rd he flew a Curtiss HS-1 Flying Boat from Buffalo, New York to Detroit, Michigan, via Toledo, Ohio, carrying Wallace Buch as passenger. The return flight to Buffalo was made the next day. By late October Kantner's Aerial Coast Patrol Unit had passed all the qualification tests at Buffalo.

In 1918 Kantner joined Continental Motors Corp., Detroit, Michigan, where he remained until 1922. While there he did some instructing, and designed and built a flying boat for Corporation President R. W. Judson, also doing considerable business flying for the Corporation. Following this Kantner returned to

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