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Plains Flying Field, Long Island, with Rinehart as Chief Instructor. There on May 17th he obtained his Expert Pilot License, No. 50. In July he conducted the first flight tests on two new Wright planes, the new single propeller tractor fuselage Model "L" and the twin-propeller, short-span fuselage pusher Model "HS". In August the newly organized Wright Company merged with The Glenn Martin Company to become the Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation, and Rinehart continued as Chief Instructor of the school, assisted by Arch Freeman. The school was in operation until late fall and trained a large class of students.

Following this Rinehart returned to Dayton and sold E. A. Deeds and Charles F. Kettering on the idea of going into the aeroplane business and The Dayton-Wright Aeroplane Company was the result. Rinehart also wanted to start a school, and realizing the need for a good training aeroplane, it was decided to design and build one at once as their first venture. The Wright Field Company was formed, land procured and North Field established on the site which later became McCook Field. With the aid of Orville Wright and some of his earlier Dayton staff the first training plane, designated as Model FS, was in the air in eight weeks. A second was finished in another two weeks. Using these planes Rinehart and Freeman conducted a flying school at North Field throughout the spring and summer months of 1917, and trained a large number of students, including many Canadians sent there under contract with the United States Government. Also during this period, Rinehart conducted the first preliminary flights on new aeroplanes for other companies, including the Wright-Martin Model "V" during March, 1917. 

[[Stamp]] FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE

The Dayton-Wright Company was formed in April, 1917 and Rinehart was made Chief experimental test pilot and put in charge of the flight staff. Factory facilities were not completed until August, at which time the company started to build Standard J-1 Trainers. In October the Government leased the North Field site for a central engineering post and experimental flying station to be known as McCook Field. At this time Rinehart and instructors Arch Freeman and Benard Whelan permanently moved their operations to the Experimental Station at South Field near the main Dayton-Wright plant. There they conducted the first flight tests of the Dayton

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