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required to pay the usual tuition was refunded in full as soon as he [[strikethrough]] had [[/strikethrough]] qualified as a pilot. The school grew rapidly and soon trained many men who later became renowned aviators in World War I.

Macaulay was also entered as a contestant for the Curtiss Marine Trophy event that year, flying a 160-horsepower Curtiss flying boat, representing the Aero Club of America. On September 23rd he attempted a flight for the Trophy, covering 278 miles in four hours and eleven minutes, when he was forced to give up due to magneto trouble. On October 17th he made a second attempt, flying 427 miles in round trip flights between Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario. On some of these trips he carried passengers, which added to his credits. Oscar Brindley won the event that year with a distance of 443.7 miles, but for his close-second Macaulay won the Aero Club of America Medal of Merit.

In October the Toronto School was moved to Bermuda for the winter, but Macaulay remained in Toronto and started flight testing new twin-engine Curtiss flying boats for Great Britain on Lake Ontario. This was the first flying of twin-engined aircraft in Canada. He did a considerable amount of this test flying, and on November 19th made a very notable forty minute flight with 640 pounds of ballast and four men, for a total of 2,100 pounds.

In December the Curtiss Company established a winter flying school at Newport News, Virginia, called the Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station, with Captain T. S. Baldwin in charge of the operations. Macaulay was sent there in January, 1916, assigned to experimental test flying. Flight instructors were Victor Carlstrom, Victor Vernon, Steve MacGordon, Walter [[strikethrough]] Iees [[/strikethrough]] Lees, Bert Acosta and S. W. Cogswell. Toward spring of 1916 the Curtiss Company had three new type planes under experimental test by Macaulay, a large twin-engined H-10 flying boat, a new large, high-powered pusher, and a twin-engined land tractor which later became the JN-Twin. On April 6th Macaulay flew the H-10 flying boat from Newport News, Virginia, to Baltimore, Maryland, carrying five passengers,