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associated with Wright Company instructor Oscar Brindley, who had been sent to North Island to instruct military officers on Wright machines. As a result they became very close friends which was to last for several years. In the Spring of 1914 Wildman went back to Hammondsport as an instructor and test pilot.

In May, 1914 the Curtiss Company started working with the original Langley plane sent there from Smithsonian Institution, first to see if it would fly with the Manly motor, and without changes to the original configuration of the plane. Floats were added to enable trials to be made over water, and Curtiss began flight trials. Putting the old plane in condition, making tests, revising and adjusting consumed several weeks of time, and later the Manly engine was removed and an OX engine and propeller installed. Wildman assisted with all this work, and in late August was assigned to further flight testing of the plane when Mr. Curtiss left for California. With the OX engine installed Wildman succeeded that month in making several quite satisfactory flights with this historic old plane to complete the project. One day while movie men were there in connection with this program an exhibition of water flying was put on for them by Wildman flying the Langley plane. R.V. Morriss, in his monoplane Flying Boat, and the camera men took pictures from a Flying Boat flown by Lanny Callan.

Another major project was in progress at Hammondsport that Summer. Curtiss had contracted to build a large twin-motored Flying Boat for Rodman Wannamaker to attempt a trans-Atlantic flight. It was a very ambitious undertaking at that time and difficulty was experienced with both insufficient flotation and the necessary power to get off the water with the required load. After numerous hull changes a third engine was added in an attempt to meet the requirements. British Naval Pilot, Lt. J.C. Porte, had been selected to fly this plane, with veteran Curtiss mechanic, George Hallett, as co-pilot. Wildman also assisted with this project and gave both Porte and Hallett some instruction in preparation for the undertaking.