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FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE

take passengers up for brief periods, then down by winch. 

After the Exposition that fall Beachey went to Toledo, Ohio, determined to build an airship of his own. Roy Knabenshue was making and operating dirigibles there, and through him Beachey became acquainted with Charles Hess who assisted him in making an airship in a loft over a drug store and laundry in Toledo during the winter of 1905-1906. 

In the early spring of 1906 Beachey operated this new ship at Inna Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There Hillery joined Lincoln and they started making a second airship. Charles Hess also came from Toledo and when it was finished Lincoln taught Hess to fly it and was sent out on exhibition engagements by himself under Beachey's management. In June Lincoln made a series of flights in Washington, D.C. using the airship made at Toledo, the first airship ever seen in the Capitol. In July he was the first United States air invader of Canada when he made flights in his airship at Dominion Park, Montreal. In October he flew at Hagerstown, Maryland, and from there was at Birmingham, Alabama to end the season. 

In February, 1907 he was at Mexico City, Mexico and there Hillery split with Lincoln and left. Hess was also with Beachey at Mexico City, then he left to go with Knabenshue. In mid-May Beachey was at the Jamestown (Virginia) Exposition, then on May 30th to June 6th was in Boston, Massachusetts. There on the last flight his engine quit and the balloon drifted out over the harbor, but he was able to get it going again and return to base. He then went to New York and made several flights from Staten Island from June 20th to the 25th. While there he sailed over Manhattan, landed in Battery Park and flew over the the Hudson and East Rivers. On July 7th he was at Luna Park, Washington, D.C. when he flew over Washington, landed on a downtown building, then circled the Capitol and the Washington Monument. In August Beachey was back at the Jamestown Exposition, then in September he made a series of flights at a fair in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. October 19th to 22nd Beachey flew in the Gordon Bennett International Dirigible Races at St. Louis, Missouri. Competing also were Captain Baldwin, Horace Wild and Jack Dallas. Beachey won the event. Reportedly he also flew his dirigible in Cuba later that fall. 

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