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so badly he was unable to compete in the Harvard-Boston 1911 Meet held August 26th to September 6th. On October 12th Martin and George Dyott spoke before a meeting of the Aeronautical Society of New York on their experiences during flight training in Europe.

Martin began preliminary test flying of his new Queen-Martin biplane at Nassau Boulevard, Long Island, early in October and continued these tests that month. It was a fuselage-type, tractor biplane with Farman-type landing gear, and a 14-cylinder, 100 [[strikethrough]] -horsepower [[/strikethrough]] h.p. Gnome engine. This machine was undoubtedly one of the first tractor-type biplanes. Toward the end of October he had a bad smashup with it at Nassau when he was forced to land in the backyard of a Garden City residence, After repairs to the plane, Martin installed a Kirkham engine and continued flying it in November.
 
Martin moved his activities to the Pacific Northwest early in 1912 and on March 10th he spoke to the Seattle Press Club. That spring he procured a Gage tractor biplane with an 8-cylinder Hall-Scott engine, and both land and water chassis. He flew it in the Seattle area that season, including exhibitions at the annual Potlach Celebration that fall.
 
In 1913 Martin took this plane to Alaska and through July and August made the first exhibition tour of that area before crowds of miners and natives. Returning to the States, Mr. and Mrs. Martin spent the winter of 1913-1914 in San Francisco.
 
During 1914 Martin returned to the sea and was in command of the U.S.S. "Lake Fray," but in 1915 he reportedly did some test flying for the Aeromarine Company of Keyport, New Jersey. At that time Martin was turning his attention toward aircraft inventions, and in December, 1916, was conducting tests of a new means of automatic stability. He formed the Martin Aeroplane Company, of Elyria, Ohio, in January, 1917, to promote his inventions, backed by the Garford Manufacturing Company, and work was being done on a new military plane designed by Martin.

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Transcription Notes:
"tractor-type" means the propeller was in the front pulling the plane rather than in the rear pushing the plane.