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bad smashup. Timm then agreed to help Miller rebuild it, with the promise that he could make the first trial hop the next time. When the work was completed Timm started by the usual cautions taxying practice and did succeed in getting some meager flying experience with the plane.
Following this Timm reportedly then built a headless-type Curtiss pusher at Corry, using a 6 cyl. 50 H.P. water-cooled engine. With this plane he continued his flying practice and experimental program until mid-1913, when he returned to Cicero Field and started working with Chicago plane builders Partridge & Keller. There he began flying one of their planes and started the design and construction of a tractor-type biplane which he built in their shop. In flying the Partridge plane he was also learning three-in-one control instead of the Curtiss, with which he was accustomed. In this new plane he evolved a new wing section of his own design and incorporated a number of new and novel ideas on wing ribs, fittings, etc. 
In Mid-January, 1914 this new plane was ready for initial flight test and at once it proved highly successful and very efficient. Timm used a 6 cyl. 75 H.P. Kirkham engine and immediately began doing a considerable amount of good flying with it. This continued at Cicero through the winter months, and in May he removed the top wing extensions to increase the speed. Later that month he left Cicero on an exhibition tour with this new plane which he continued through the 1914 season. 
During the winter months of 1914-1915 Timm built a larger tractor-type biplane with which he did exhibition flying, cross country and aerial advertising through Minnesota, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Montana and Wisconsin through the summer of 1915. 
In May, 1916 Timm joined the Grinnell Aeroplane Company of Grinnell, Iowa, as their Engineer and Pilot. This Firm had been organized in January, 1914 by another Cicero Field flying pioneer, William C. Robinson, who had