3 January 1913

The Boland brothers, Frank, James and Joseph, were aircraft designers from Rahway, New Jersey who started the Boland Airplane and Motor Co. They worked with tailless aircraft that were early predecessors of flying wings. Frank Boland was killed on January 3, 1913 during an exhibition flight in Trinidad. 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." In 1914, the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company took over the manufacturing rights of Boland airplanes and engines.