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I myself have touched and have seen the device rising to a very high altitude... The most perfect balance I have seen him keep the device in the air was at the moments when Mr. García let it fall abandoned to its weight to show the slowness with which, in a given case and without the slightest bit of
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He acquired partial funding and traveled to Long Island, placing an order for the construction of the
Poliplano according to his specifications with the American Aeroplane Supply House, a Long Island airplane manufacturer specializing in Bleriot monoplanes. Construction began on 4 February 1911 using
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Zoilo
Hermogenes García Peña was born in La Vega to Maria Dolores Peña and Don Zoilo Garcia, a businessman, general in the Dominican forces and for a time governor of La Vega. Besides being a successful entrepreneur and exporter of cocoa and tobacco, his father is remembered for attempting to save
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Disappointed, Garcia ordered the plane dismantled and shipped by boat to the
Dominican Republic. Some Dominican news outlets falsely reported that the plane was destroyed in a fire, but this may be a misunderstanding stemming from a storm that ravaged the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome on 24 February
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In July of the same year he began taking flying lessons with the instructor James Lester Weeks and also engaged Weeks as the aviation instructor for the
Dominican army. Attempts were made to persuade Garcia to remove the ‘poly’ part of the plane and recognize it as a monoplane. He seemed to have
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The same article shows that Garcia later approached the directors of the
Aviation Center to recommend the dissolution of said organization. He wrote off the Polyplane as a financial loss. The plane is reported to have remained at the Sabana de Ponton landing strip where it rotted away.
219:. The first flight attempts on the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome seem to have been a failure. The pilot and flight engineer Fred Schneider who had worked with the Wright and Curtis planes, was quoted as saying that the design was to blame.
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Garcia attempted to create interest in his design and its potentials with the
Dominican government, convincing them to back his project and clearing a landing strip in the Sabana de Ponton area of La Vega on 17 January 1911.
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By August 1911 the manufacturers ran into trouble with Garcia's design, possibly due to a miscalculation in the weight of the
Roberts engine. Construction was put on hold and Garcia returned to Santo Domingo.
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rejected the name change as it is continually referred to as a 'Poliplano'.
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