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Figure 6. Rebuilt as a biplane, this is the Bleriot frame before it was covered. The photograph was taken behind the Hungerford
house at right.
Fliers” Lumberton, North Carolina and finally
acquired by Clarence Chamberlain, Teeterborough,
N.J. but never received. Seems he got in a scrap
with Chamberlain?
The motor was a Detroit aeroplane 5 ½” Bore – 5”
Stroke -2 –Cyld opposed 35 to 40 H.P. aircooled—
prop was a Paragon 5’ - - Pitch x 5’ – 6” diam. We
built the prop [?] on the little biplane –
This is a picture of Hungerford Brothers Shop and
Residence at 823 W. Second St Elmira, NY and the
little biplane built from our old Bleriot Biplane
1909 model. Our “Bleriot”—was built by August
Rauschenbusch—Greenville, Pa, near Meadville,
Pa. 34
Marvin reported that the Hungerford’s rebuilt Bleriot
was replaced by a Curtiss “and two or three Wacos.” Of
his aviation accomplishments, Daniel Hungerford
wrote in Who’s Who in American Aeronautics in 1925, that
he:
Built airplane motor 1909–1910; bought and flew
Bleriot Monoplane Aug. 13, 1913; rebuilt same into
Biplane, 1919–1920; organized Elmira Aeroplane
Exhibition Corp. in 1921; reorganized in 1922; did
General Flying to 1924; built and flew glider 1920. 35
Figure 7. A photograph of the rebuilt Bleriot was used in a
Hungerford advertisement in Elmira directories in the 1920s.
In the 1990s, Ethel Hungerford, “a distant cousin,”
recalled sewing canvas for an airplane the brothers
were building. Daniel Hungerford asked to use her
sewing machine, but “I told him I didn’t let anyone use
it. I asked him what he wanted to use it for and he said
he wanted canvas sewed for his airplane. So I did it.”
She also recalled that Hungerford used to buy gasoline
for his airplanes from her and her husband Fred, who
ran a “gas station and lunch room” in Horseheads near
the Hungerford flying field. 36
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