Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-06
FLYING BOAT TO
Be TESTED HERE
New B0Iand Machine, Equipped
With StabiIizer, Ready
for Launching.
HAMIL TON TO MAKE
THE PIONEER TRIP
Famous Altman Will Take Out
FIier-Wright Patent Al
legged infringement.

After months OF labor in which ex-
perts from this country and Europe
have been engaged, the Boland Aero
plane Company of Newark is ready
to launch, first in the water and then
in the air, their flying boat. The craft
Is the latest departure in aircraft. 1t
Is equipped with a stabilizer, the lat
est safety apparatus for aeroplanes.
3 The Boland people have been man
~ufacturing aeroplanes and hydro
aeroplanes for the last five years. On
1.-THE west shore of Newark bay is To-
Gated the hangar from which all or
the machines are tested.
9 The flying boat was towed to the
@hangar today and tomorrow 1t will
: be tested for the first time.
g OF the various types of aircraft the
flying boat is declared to be the SAT-
est and that 1t will in the course of
Z. time become something more than
= the rich mans toy. IT is now in its
T present development safe when con-
fined to waterways and flown few
s feet above the water.
The Boland machine is of the flying
boat type and is practically a motor
z boat with a pair of wings attached.
. The boat is seaworthy. When the
I. wings fail or the motor stops drop
into the water brings the ,.viator to
safety.
Not One Accident.
The Curtis Company, one of the
= pioneers of aviation and the first to
= construct a flying boat, have met with
fiattering success, and during the year
Just passed have not had single ac-
cident while flying a craft of this
kind. This is in marked contrast to
the hundreds of fatal accidents that
have marked the progress of the land
machines.
"a The Boland Company hope for
wonderful future for their flying boat
lin commercial way. They and the
Wright company will control the field
In this country, 1t is believed. The
Wright brothers hold the patents on
which all other machines with the
exception of the Boland, are said to
infringe It is claimed that the Cur
tits machines are direct infringement
on the Wright patents here, and that
las result the Curtis company is now
moving their plant to France.
With the exception of the Boland
-machines all others are controlled by
"a vertical rudder used in conjunction
with a warping of the wings. The
Boland machines are controlled by
jibs which are located at the ends
and between the planes or wings.
= Three days ago the latest type of
Wright machine with II much
Wanted sta bilizer. which. according
TO Wilbur Wright, is the means or
making the aeroplane absolutely
fool proof" was given a trial at the
Wright aviation field at Dayton. A
committee of experts viewed the trial
and pronounced the stabilizer a sue
cess. This is considered a new epoch
in the progress of the aeroplane.
Prior to this public trial the mech
sanism of the stabilizer was a pro.
found secret and was guarded until
IL was perfected and the public trial
made. Now that the Wrights have
made known their latest invention.
1T is declared that it is nothing more
or less than the control embodied in
the Boland machine from the time
the first aeroplane was turned out
by the Boland company of this city.
AS the control of the Boland machine
has been patented. the Wright stabil-
izer. according to a statement made
today by an officer of the Boland
company. is a direct infringement on
their patents.
Charles K. Hamilton has been en-
gagged to fly the Boland flying boat in
the trial which will be made tomor-
row. He is a pioneer student of avia-
tion and a daring air navigator.
There is probably no other airman
with a better knowledge of practical
aviation. Hamilton first gained fame
by flying across New Jersey from
New York to Philadelphia, four years
ago. This was the longest continuous
fight made in this country, up to
that time. Mr.. Hamilton has been in
studying the flying boat as it neared
Newark for the past two weeks.
studying the flying boat as it neared
completion. He is confident it will
prove successful.