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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.〔Frank E. Boland (c1880-1912), James Paul Boland (1882-1964) was born on August 20, 1882 and Joseph John Boland (1879-c1970) was born on 28 May 1879 according to the World War I draft. There was a John Andrew Boland, born on 8 August 1878 who worked at their garage〕 They had set records for bicycle racing in 1898. 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 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." 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of the Flying Wing )〕 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,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=US Rocketry Records )〕 and finishing in third place overall for the 1998-1999 season.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Final 1998-1999 NAR points list )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boland brothers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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