Winter 1904

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Winter 1904

• Lawyers and patents
• St. Louis competition
• Dealing with the press
• Reports of the first flight
• The Rascals D.A.Willey and A. Herring
• Begin work on 3 engines
• 4 inch bore - 4 cylinder
• 4 1/8 inch bore 4 cylinder
• 4 inch bore - 8 cylinder (never
  completed)
• Begin work on 3 airframes
• Assemble the 04

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Spring 1904

• Begin mid-May
• Press Invited
• Engine problems
• Weather problems
• Handling problems
• Stalls
• Decide to move CG in July
• Propulsion tests

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Summer 1904

• Gaining experience
• Begin to make turns (Flt 15 - Aug 2)
• Take-off problems (236 ft track)
• Many crashes - pine spars
• Propulsion tests
• Exceeds KH flight (1340 ft Flt 28 -Aug13)

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Fall 1904

• First use of catapult (Flt 40 Sept 7)
• Half circle (Flt 49 Sept 15)
• First complete circle (Flt 52 Sept20)
• Spectators
• Propulsion tests
• Cant stop turns (Flt 54 Sept 26)
• Increase altitude fly over cattle (Flt 70
  Oct14)
• Stake pulled out!
• Multiple circle flights (Flts 68, 70, 75 ,80, 82,
  87, etc.)
• 4 circle-5 minute flights (Flt 82 Nov 9) (Flt
  100 Dec 1)
• Accidental engine shut-offs
• 105 flights - 45 total minutes by Dec 9

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Winter Spring 1905

• Alternate locations
• Propulsion tests
• Finish new airframe
• Letters to the War Department
• Foreign visitor

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Summer 1905

• Begin new flight tests Jun 23
• Problems with early flights
• Design changes
• blinkers
• separate rudder control
• Big crash (Flt 9 Jul 14)
• Re-design front rudder
• Resume flights Aug 24
• Duplicate best 04 flight by Flt 21-Sep 6

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Fall 1905

• Multiple circle flights (Flts 15, 17, 21, 22,
  23, 24)
• First figure 8 (Flt 25-Sep 8)
• Propulsion tests
• New props and sprockets on Sept 25
• Enlarge and move rudder
• Sep 26 18 min flt, Sep 28 9 min flt
• The Honey Locust
• Sep 29 - 20 min flt, Sep 30 17 min
• Oct 3 25 min, Oct 4 33 min (hot bearings)

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October 5, 1905

• (Flt 48) 24 ½ miles - 38 minutes 3 sec
• fuel exhausted
• Mission Accomplished
• Story appears in Daily News and Cinci Post
• Experiments discontinued for the present
• Letter to Secretary of War