Augustus Moore Herring

[2] On October 10, 1898, Herring telegraphed Chanute to come and watch him fly a powered aeroplane of his own design, based on the Chanute-type biplane structure, using a compressed air engine at Silver Beach Amusement Park in St. Joseph, Michigan.

The next year, he left Curtiss and joined Starling Burgess in Marblehead, Massachusetts to design and build aeroplanes.

Herring did some aviation design work for the United States Army during World War I, he later was partially paralyzed by a series of strokes.

Scott says Herring's glider was difficult to steer and his two-cylinder, three-horsepower compressed air engine could operate for only 30 seconds at a time.

This method was superseded by the Wright Brothers system of dynamic three-axis control used by most aircraft flying today.