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tion planes being built. Being winter, and too cold for flying at the Simms Station field leased by the Wright Brothers, (also known as Huffman prairie),it was necessary to move to warmer climate and a site at Montgomery, Alabama, was selected. This is known today as Maxwell Field. The flying school was opened on March 19, 1910, by Orville. The first pilot he trained was Walter Brookins of Dayton. "Brookie" made a series of historic night flights on April 18 and became the Wrights' first instructor in May, 1910, at Montgomery. He trained Arch Hoxsey, Spencer C. Crane, and others. Orville, upon his return to Dayton in May, 1910, opened a school at Sims Station and trained A. L. Welsh and Duval La Chapelle. Brookins returned to Dayton in late May and trained Ralph Johnstone and Frank T. Coffyn. Later, Phil O. Parmalee and C. O. Turpin were trained. The team of flyers was now ready for their first public performance.
    The first exhibition event entered by the Wright Exhibition Team was the Indianapolis Air Meet held between June 13 and 18, 1910, at the Indianapolis Speedway. While the weather was far from perfect, the crowds were well pleased and the team received good newspaper coverage. Five Wright airplanes participated in the meet.
    Next came the Atlantic City Air Meet sponsored by the  Atlantic City Aero Club in early July. Walter Brookins became the first man to fly to a height of a mile on July 9. He attained an altitude of 6,175 feet in his Wright Biplane, winning a prize of $5,000.
    The average charge by the Wright Brothers for a series of exhibition flights at a county fair or elsewhere was about $5,000 for each plane used. However, Knabenshue knew, from his experience in