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

In February, 1907, he was at Mexico City, 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 from May 30th to June 6th, he was in Boston, Massachusetts. There, on the last flight, his engine quit and the balloon drifted out over the harbor, but he able to get it going again and returned 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 Hudson and East Rivers. On July 7th he was at Luna Park, Washington, D.C. 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. From October 19th to 22nd, Beachey flew in the Gordon Bennett International Dirigible Races at St. Louis, Missouri. Also competing were Captain Baldwin, Horace Wild and Jack Dallas. Beachey won the event. Reportedly he also flew his dirigible in Cuba later that fall.

In February, 1908, Beachey and Wild flew at the Exposition in Jacksonville, Florida, and in October he was Philadelphia for a Founder's Celebration, flying under the auspices of the Philadelphia Inquirer. While there he flew over

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