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successfully flew the plane for some little distance, managed a turn, then closed the throttle and made a good landing. Overjoyed, he made three short flights that day and remained at the lake to complete the contract. Tweed continued his practice and reportedly that summer bought a Thomas hydro with a Kirkham engine. He did some additional exhibition flying for Thomas Brothers that summer and in January, 1914, bought a Blasiar flying boat with Kirkham engine.

He flew exhibitions on his own during the early part of the 1914 summer season and made some flights along Long Island Sound for the Shoreline Electric Trolley Company. On August 1st that year Tweed started a passenger-carrying business at Madison, Connecticut, on Long Island Sound, using his Kirkham-powered Blasiar flying boat, remaining there through the fall season. In 1915 he continued flying exhibitions and carried passengers. In May, 1916, Tweed became assistant instructor for Walter Johnson at the new Philadelphia School of Aviation at Essington, Pennsylvania.

As World War I approached in the spring of 1917, Tweed enlisted in the Navy as a Seaman 2nd Class, and was sent to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a special aviation course. Following this he was assigned to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Florida, where he obtained his Navy wings as a Lieutenant, Junior Grade. He served there as an instructor for a time then was sent to Panama where he helped build the Naval Air Station at Coco Solo. He remained on active patrol duty in the Canal Zone and was one of the first to fly the jungle route over the Isthmus.

Tweed was mustered out after the war and returned to New Haven, where he purchased some Navy surplus boats and with his brother conducted a charter and passenger business for four years. During this period Tweed also did some exhibition flying and instructing. In 1925 he established New Haven's first airport, the New Haven Terminal

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