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his first venture in aviation when he organized the Pallissard and Company School of Flying at Cicero, with partners Elmer Partridge and Henry Keller, well known early Chicago plane builders.  Pallissard bought one-half interest in a plane they were building, the main purpose of their enterprise being to hire an instructor as soon as the plane was finished, and all would then learn to fly.  The plane was a dual control, school-type biplane with a 6-cylinder 80 [crossed out] hpm Smith air cooled fixed-radial [crossed out] engine.  Pallissard helped finish building the plane during his spare time and then they engaged Frank Kastory, a local pilot, to become instructor for the group.  To avoid the cold, they made very short flights through out the winter months, as weather permitted, and by early summer of 1915, after about two hours and forty-five minutes of dual instruction, Pallissard made his first 15 minute solo flight on June 15th.  Later that day, in what turned out to be very rough air, he made his second flight, and had to make three or four landing attempts before he succeeded in getting the plane down.  that evening he took his partner, Elmer Partridge up, and after that his first paid student for a ten minute instruction flight.  The following Sunday Pallissard took his other partner, Henry Keller, for a long ridge over downtown Chicago and the lake front and back to Cicero.  

     Their school was active for the remainder of the 1915 season, and partners Partridge and Keller completed their training from instructor Kastory, as well as several other students, including E. Hamilton Lee and C. C. Eversole, both of whom later became famous early United States Mail Air pilots.  That season Pallissard also went out on exhibition engagements with other Cicero pilots, as pilot-mechanic; they flew at Indianapolis, Indiana; Indianola, Iowa; Cadillac, Michigan; and other mid-western points. 

     Cicero Flying Field was abandoned late in the fall of 1915, so in the spring of 1916, the group moved the school operations to the newly formed Ashbourne Field.  There they continued to operate the school and Pallissard added considerably to his flying experience.  During the early fall there were indications that the United States Signal Corps planned to start extensive student training operations at Ashbourne Field.. so the Pallissard and Company school was dissolved

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