Boland brothers
Frank E. Boland (c. 1880 – 1913), James Paul Boland (1882 – 1970) and Joseph John Boland (May 27, 1879 – 1964) were early aircraft designers from Rahway, New Jersey who started the Boland Airplane and Motor Company.[1][2][3]
They had set records for bicycle racing in 1898.[4] Frank Boland was killed in on January 23, 1913 during an exhibition flight in Trinidad.[5] They worked with tailless aircraft that were early predecessors of flying wings. A scale model of their plane is in the Smithsonian.[6]
In 1904, Frank and Joseph, started a business servicing bicycles, motorcycles, and automobiles in Rahway.[7]
In 1914, the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company of Avondale, Pennsylvania, took over the manufacturing rights of all Boland airplanes and engines.[8][9]
E.T. Wooldridge writes: "The Boland brothers were a relatively small, but extraordinary, part of early aviation history in the United States. Frank supplied the enthusiasm, ingenuity, and self-taught flying ability; Joseph provided the mechanical genius to transform ideas into some tangible, workable form; and James had the business sense so often lacking in ventures of that sort." [8] Joseph died in 1964 in Frederick, Maryland.
Legacy
During the 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 contest years, the Boland Brothers team, composed of a great-grand-nephew and great-great-grandnephew of the Boland brothers, competed in the National Association of Rocketry at the regional and national levels, setting no fewer than two US model rocket performance records,[10] and finishing in third place overall for the 1998-1999 season.[11]
See also
References
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