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 the Boland Airplane and Motor Company.
Biographies
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 wing
A flying wing is a tailless fixed-wing aircraft that has no definite fuselage, with its crew, payload, fuel, and equipment housed inside the main wing structure. A flying wing may have various small protuberances such as pods, nacelles, blis ...
s. A scale model of their plane is in the
Smithsonian.
In 1914, the
Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company
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.
History
The beginnings of the c ...
of
Avondale, New Jersey, took over the manufacturing rights of all Boland airplanes and engines.
Legacy
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."National Association of Rocketry
The National Association of Rocketry (NAR) is a non-profit tax-exempt scientific organization dedicated to consumer safety, youth education, and the advancement of technology in the hobby of sport rocketry in the United States. Founded in 1957, t ...
at the regional and national levels, setting no fewer than two US model rocket performance records,
Aircraft
* Boland 1911 Tailless Biplane
The Boland 1911 Tailless Biplane was an American pioneering aircraft.
At the end of 1909, Wilbur R. Kimball bought Dr. William Greene's 1909 biplane and took it to Rahway, New Jersey where he and Frank Boland removed the tail and began expe ...
* Boland 1911 Conventional Biplane
The Boland 1911 Conventional Biplane was an American pioneering aircraft.
During the winter of 1911-1912, Frank Boland built a conventional pusher biplane. Boland built this aircraft to compare it with the tailless aircraft that he'd been bui ...
* Boland 1912 Tailless Biplane The Boland 1912 Tailless Biplane was a refinement of the Boland 1911 Tailless Biplane. The major change in the 1912 biplane is the addition of a central nacelle that contained the pilot, passenger and the engine.
Design and development
The Bola ...
* Boland 1913 Tailless Flying Boat The Boland 1912 Tailless Biplane was a refinement of the Boland 1911 Tailless Biplane. The major change in the 1912 biplane is the addition of a central nacelle that contained the pilot, passenger and the engine.
Design and development
The Bola ...
* Boland 1914 Monoplane Flying Boat The Boland 1914 Monoplane Flying Boat was a tailless, pusher flying boat built by the Boland Aeroplane and Motor Company
Design and development
This aircraft was the only monoplane development from the Boland brothers that used their unusual ' ...
* Boland 1914 Biplane Flying Boat
Boland may refer to:
People with the surname
*Boland (baseball), a 19th-century baseball player
*Boland brothers (early 20th century), Frank, James, and Joseph; early American aircraft designers
*Akeel Boland (born 1991), BJJ Practitioner, Good Ji ...
Engines
* Boland V-8
The Boland V-8 was an aircraft engine that was developed by the 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 – Se ...
See also
* Wright brothers
*Wittemann brothers
Paul W. Wittemann and Adolph (Walter) Wittemann and Charles Rudolph Wittemann (September 15, 1884 – July 8, 1967) were early aviation pioneers.
Biography
They were the children of Emily Wittemann (née Schirzinger) of Missouri. Their fat ...
*Voisin brothers
Aéroplanes Voisin was a French aircraft manufacturing company established in 1905 by Gabriel Voisin and his brother Charles, and was continued by Gabriel after Charles died in an automobile accident in 1912; the full official company name then b ...
References
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People from Rahway, New Jersey
Members of the Early Birds of Aviation