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October 10th while flying at Sea Cliff he saved a man from drowning [[strikethrough]] while flying at Sea Cliff [[/strikethrough]]. During that time he also made several basic improvements to the plane and its handling capabilities. At the close of the 1912 flying season the Wright Company abandoned the project and Wald was released. 

Following this, Wald and some of his former Brooklyn Aero Club colleagues formed the Manhattan Aeroplane Company in New York. During 1913 they built two land planes and one flying boat, using Kirkham 6-cylinder engines. These planes were flight tested and proved quite successful but the project was abandoned due to a serious general slump in aviation. In 1914 Wald went with the Curtiss Company in Buffalo, New York, first in the shop working on the controls of a large tri-motored plane for the British government. He remained with the Curtiss Company through 1915 and for a time was located at the Toronto plant, where Tony Jannus gave him some instruction on Curtiss Flying Boats. 

In 1916 Wald enlisted and flew Curtiss Jennies in Texas with General Pershing's Border Patrol Unit. In 1917 he joined the Naval Aircraft Inspection Service. His first assignment was at the Curtiss Buffalo plant and while there he did some flying on their HS-1 Flying Boats. In 1918 Wald qualified as a Senior Naval Aircraft Inspector and during that year was transferred from Buffalo to the Garden City Curtiss plant, assigned to their HS-1, 2, 3 and 4 Series twin-engined flying boats. That year he [[strikethrough]] also [[/strikesthrough]] wrote an official Navy Aircraft Inspection Manual which was used for many years. At Garden City Wald [[strikethrough]] also [[/strikethrough]] assisted with the Navy N C flying boat program which went on to make aviation history by the [[strikethrough]] ir [[/strikethrough]] Atlantic crossing [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] of the NC-4. 

In August, 1923 Wald was sent to Great Britain by the Navy Department, reporting to the Officer-in-Charge U. S. Navy Schneider Cup Team to assist with the race activities there. During the years 1923-1927 he was given various assignments at the Vought branch of the United Aircraft Corporation on their UO series planes where he also assisted with some major flight tests. He was Inspector in charge at the Loening Aeronatical Corporation in 1926 during construction and acceptance of three special Loening Amphibians for one of the Byrd Polar Expeditions. In 1927 

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