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|}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.
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== Design and development ==
The Boland 1912 biplane was more of a refinement of [[Boland brothers|Frank Boland's]] previous tailless aircraft. Still using the wing 'jibs' he developed for lateral control, this aircraft introduced a crudely constructed nacelle for the pilot, passenger and engine. This was the aircraft that Boland took on tour to [[Venezuela]] and the [[West Indies]] in 1912, becoming the first person to fly an aircraft in Venezuela. It was also the aircraft he was flying in [[Port of Spain|Port of Spain, Trinidad]] on January 23, 1913 when a failure in the forward structure of the aircraft caused it to dive unexpectedly into the ground, killing him.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/aircraft419131914newy|title=Aircraft Vol. 4|date=1910|publisher=New York, Lawson Publishing Company|others=Smithsonian Libraries|pages=10,77–79}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/aeronautics1112aero|title=Aeronautics Vol. 11-12|last1=Aeronautical Society of America|last2=Aero Club of Pennsylvania|date=1907|publisher=New York|others=Smithsonian Libraries|pages=34,170,171}}</ref>
After Frank's death, his brother, Joseph, continued the development of the aircraft. Working with the financial backing of [[Inglis M. Uppercu]], by 1913, he had substantially revised the nacelle and front structure of the aircraft and improved the overall fit and finish of the entire aircraft. He also had a pair of floats designed for the aircraft that could be easily bolted to each of the skids with six bolts, turning it into a seaplane.<ref name=":0" />
In 1914, Uppercu bought out the Boland brothers and reorganized the Boland Airplane and Motor Company as the [[Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company]] and marketed this as the '''Aeromarine Model B'''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YOYEAAAAMAAJ&q=editions:BzdhTlzaoMgC|title=Aircraft Year Book|last=Faurote|first=Fay Leone|date=1919|publisher=American Aviation Publications|pages=60,61|language=en}}</ref>
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== Specifications (1913-Aeromarine B) ==
[[File:Boland_1912_Seaplane_Aircraft_magazine_Nov._1913_Cropped.jpg|thumb|Boland 1913 Seaplane Aircraft magazine Nov. 1913 (Cropped)]]
[[File:Boland_1912_Tailless_3-view_Aircraft_magazine_May_1913.jpg|thumb|Boland 1913 (Aeromarine B) Tailless 3-view Aircraft magazine May 1913]]
[[File:Aeromarine_Boland_nacelle.png|thumb|Aeromarine B Biplane Nacelle]]
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