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1910 Boland 1e-v at the Mineola fair grounds in 1914

Frank E. Boland (c1880-1913), James Paul Boland (1882-1964) and Joseph John Boland (c1880-c1970) were early aircraft designers from Rahway, New Jersey who started the Boland Airplane and Motor Company.

They had set records for bicycle racing in 1898. Frank Boland was killed in on January 3, 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 is in the Smithsonian.

In 1904, Frank and Joseph, started a business servicing bicycles, motorcycles, and automobiles in Rahway.

In 1914 the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company of Avondale, Pennsylvania, 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 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." James died in 1964 in Frederick, Maryland.

See also

  • Wright brothers
  • Wittemann brothers