 His departure from France was delayed after a relapse of the typhoid he contracted in the spring of 1907 and he took convalescent leave at a rest home in St. Germain.It was in the home's garden on August 1, 1907, the very day that the Aeronautical Division came into being, that Lahm's father introduced him to Wilbur and Orville Wright.The elder Lahm had personally investigated the claims of the brothers and had been quietly promoting them among his colleagues in France since 1905.