The Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company was an early American aircraft manufacturer founded by Inglis M. Upperçu which operated from 1914 to 1930. From 1928 to 1930 it was known as the Aeromarine-Klemm Corporation .
6-464: The beginnings of the company dated to 1908, when Uppercu began to finance aeronautical experiments by the Boland brothers at Keyport , New Jersey . In 1914, Aeromarine itself was founded at Keyport with Uppercu as president. Aeromarine built mostly military seaplanes and flying boats , the most significant of which were the models 39 and 40 . The company broke new ground in aviation by offering some of
12-579: Is in the Smithsonian . In 1914, the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company of Avondale, New Jersey , took over the manufacturing rights of all Boland airplanes and engines. 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
18-668: The Boland Airplane and Motor Company. They were the children of James Francis Boland (1834–1913) and Catherine Julia Kavanaugh (1843–1925). They had set records for bicycle racing in 1898. In 1904, Frank and Joseph, started a business servicing bicycles, motorcycles, and automobiles in Rahway. Frank Boland was killed in on January 23, 1913, during an exhibition flight in Trinidad . They worked with tailless aircraft that were early predecessors of flying wings . A scale model of their plane
24-463: The first regularly scheduled flights. Aviation promoter Harry Bruno worked with Aeromarine to commercialize the transportation potential of airflight. In 1928, the firm was renamed Aeromarine-Klemm Corporation and began producing mostly Klemm aircraft designs, until the Great Depression forced its closure in 1930. The firm also built aero engines. After Aeromarine itself went out of business,
30-680: 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." 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, and finishing in third place overall for
36-925: The production of Aeromarine engines was continued by the Uppercu-Burnelli Corporation . A subsidiary "Aeromarine Sightseeing and Navigation Company" merged with Florida West Indies Airways, Inc to form the Aeromarine West Indies Airways , later renamed to "Aeromarine Airways". it operated the Aeromarine 75 and Aeromarine 85 aircraft. 40°26′35″N 74°11′22″W / 40.443097°N 74.189394°W / 40.443097; -74.189394 Boland brothers Frank Edward Boland (July 31, 1873 – January 3, 1913), James Paul Boland (August 20, 1882 – December 19, 1967) and Joseph John Boland (May 27, 1879 – September 12, 1964) were early aircraft designers from Rahway, New Jersey who started
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