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September, 1919.

Simon then joined Sperry Aircraft Corporation, Farmingdale, Long Island, as Factory Manager and test pilot, and assisted with their many extensive postwar aviation activities. The most notable of these were the Aerial Torpedo and Automatic Pilot, the Amphibious Flying Boat, the development and extensive demonstration program of the Sperry Messinger, and later the Verville-Sperry Racer which incorporated many novel and advanced features for its time. Simon's contributions on the Aerial Torpedo and Automatic Pilot program were especially noteworthy.

The program was initiated by the Sperry Gyroscope Company, of Brooklyn, New York, and the necessary equipment to accomplish the objectives were inventions of Mr. Elmer Sperry and his son, Lawrence. All development and testing of the devices was carried on at the Sperry Aircraft Corporation at Farmingdale where Simon was assigned to this project. Basically, the Automatic Pilot, devised to fly an Aerial Torpedo, was designed around a horizontal and longitudinal Gyro and a separate Azmuth Gyro, and three distinct groups of vacuum mechanisms with a vacuum pump and generator. The functional development of these units was carried on in several stages using Standard E-1, English Avro and Sperry Messenger aeroplanes. Three Sperry Messenger Aerial Torpedos were delivered to McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio for U. S. Army experiments. In 1924 two Avro aeroplanes were rebuilt and equipped with the Sperry Aerial Torpedo equipment, sold to the British Government and delivered to the Royal Aircraft Establishment and Experimental Station at Farnborough, England. After the death of Lawrence Sperry, Simon was assigned to complete the testing and instruction of Royal Air Force pilots in the operation and handling of these Aerial Torpedo units. The following tests were required by the British Government before formal acceptance and delivery of these units could be made.

1. Aerial Torpedo to take off automatic with Simon and a British Pilot and fly 60 miles to a prescribed target and make photographs of same.
2. Fly two Aerial Torpedos, one after the other, both automatic and photograph and prescribed target.

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