Emerson College

On January 1, 1914, while much of Europe was embroiled in a war. Jannus did flying demonstrations for Benoist planes throughout the Midwest and was a contestant at a Chicago air show in September 1912. Jannus also made air-to-ground radio tests for the Signal Corps during that flight. Emerson Marine sent Tony to install a marine engine in a modified Curtiss-type airplane in College Park, Maryland. It was at this time Tony fell in love with flying. He had received only basic instructions (which was standard procedure in those early days) and soon became very active in aviation. Petersburg with the airboat and once the plane was reassembled from the rail trip, he flew test flights in preparation for the newly formed passenger service. Tony Jannus was the pilot of that first scheduled passenger airline flight on January 1, 1914, for a very simple reason. He knew the plane and also how to fly it!

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