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on October 25th.
After obtaining his license, Webster returned to Marblehead, Mass. and became an instructor and test pilot for the Burgess Co., testing their Burgess-Wright on floats as his first assignment. Remaining at Marblehead until late December, he was [[strikethrough]] shipped [[/strikethrough]] transferred south for the winter to Ormond Beach, Florida. There he was Chief Instructor on hydros, making his first flights the latter part of January. In addition to instructing, he carried passengers from the resort area that winter.
Webster returned to Marblehead about April 1st, 1912, continuing instruction and test work. That spring and summer he assisted in the development of their new military tractor using the French Renault 8 cylinder Vee-type air-cooled engine. This machine was flown both as a land and water plane. In early September at Marblehead he was training Greely S. Curtis and Lt. Alfred Cunningham of the U. S. Marines. In the fall of 1912 Webster left Burgess for a time.
During the summer months of 1913 Webster returned to the Burgess Co. where he remained until 1917. Early in March, 1914 he started the first test flights of their new Burgess-Dunne sweptback-wing tailless plane using a Curtiss OX engine, first on floats and later as a land [[strikethrough]] machine [[/strikethrough]] plane. This [[strikethrough]] pronounced VEE shaped [[/strikethrough]] inherently stable plane was made by the Burgess Company under license from Great Britain. In May, Webster started flying the second Dunne with changes, and on May 24th flew it from Marblehead to Gloucester and return, carrying merchandise. About this time he also started to demonstrate this unusual plane to the United States military officers. In August he flew the third Dunne machine, and continued to do considerable test flying on them for the remainder of the season. Later, planes numbers 2 and 4 were delivered to the Navy, and number 3 to the Army.
The Burgess-Dunne project continued in 1915 when considerable interest was aroused in special planes developed for wealthy sportsmen. That season they sold Dunne planes on floats and specially developed flying boat hulls to the Vincent Astor, Harry P. Whitney, Godfrey L. Cabot, Norman Cabot, and others, all of whom were taught to fly by Webster during the season. That summer he also did some test flying for other concerns while still with the Burgess Co., and in July conducted some tests on the new Timson-Albree monoplane at Nahant Beach, Massachusetts. In October Webster was sent to Port Washington,