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While flying an exhibition with this plane at Battle Creek, Michigan, on August 4th, Beachey had another bad smashup, severely injuring his shoulder, and suffering a compound fracture of the upper right arm. He was badly shaken up. The accident was attributed to structural failure of the center wing section. This smashup put him in the hospital for some time and as a result, later in October he was operated on at Mercy Hospital, Chicago, for a dislocated and broken shoulder bone which hospitalized him for over a month. Beachey was out and going again in November.
During the winter of 1912-1913 he designed and built another new plane, entirely on his own, working in a basement room supplied by Max Stupar of the Chicago Aero Works. It was a single seat, tractor biplane with an enclosed fuselage, slightly backswept wings, Farman type landing gear, powered by a 500 h.p., 6-cylinder, Kirkham engine, and designed for ease in dismantling and crating for shipment in exhibition work. Beachey made the first trial flights of this plane at Clearing, Illinois, about mid-May, 1913, then soon moved his operations to Cicero Field where the performance of his fine new plane soon proved to be quite a sensation. He continued tests and practice there until the latter part of June then started out on exhibition flying tours.
On July 19th he flew cross-country from Canton to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he was engaged to give flight exhibition. In mid-August he flew for one week at the Wilton Fair, Wilton, Iowa; the first week of September he flew at the Western Michigan State Fair, Grand Rapids, Michigan; October 1st to 5th he was flying at Allegan, Michigan, and October 9th to 11th at Albion, Indiana. Later, Beachey flew at Monon, Indiana, his last flight of the season as well as his last personal exhibition flying.
With the close of the 1913 season, Beachey decided to give up the exhibition game and returned to working with his brother Lincoln. During the winter months of 1913-1914 he assisted in the design and building of Lincoln's special loop
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