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September 9th he was at Cedar Falls, Iowa, and carried mail; September 10th to 14th at the Wisconsin State Fair at Milwaukee, then on September 15th he flew at Wausau, Wisconsin.

September 22nd and 23rd Beachey was at the 1912 Chicago Meet at Grant Park. There he and Kearney put on a dangerous, sensational show and were flagged down by the meet officials, and Beachey's license was revoked again, for flying down Michigan Avenue just above the street lights. On the 23rd he staged his "Madame Helene" act of flying when he dressed as a woman and again had the crowds on their feet. September 26th to 28th he flew at McLeansboro, Illinois, and carried mail; at Peoria, Illinois, on October 3rd, then at Lawrence, Kansas, on the 4th and 5th. There he had a smashup when the lower wing of his plane hit the ground when he was forced to take off in a turn to get out of a very bad place. He flew at the Illinois State Fair for one week beginning October 8th and again carried mail.

Following this Beachey was in Washington, D. C., flying a Curtiss [[strikethrough]] hydroplane [[/strikethrough]] hydroaeroplane at the War College, carrying Army officers. While there he also flew a 75 h.p. Curtiss land plane at College Park which had been assembled by three enlisted men from parts they had been saving for some time. The three men were: Sgt. J. F. Hartman and Pvts. A. H. Mix and Abe Martin. Mix later became Beachey's mechanic. November 28th to December 2nd Beachey was at the Ascot Park Meet in Los Angeles, and while there did some flying with a new small Curtiss 24-foot-span tractor biplane with a 75 h.p. Curtiss engine. On December 23rd to 27th he was at the Tanforan Park Meet in San Francisco.

As 1912 ended Beachey announced he had quit flying because he felt he had caused several aviators to lose their lives trying to copy his feats of daring. There is evidence that he left the Curtiss Exhibition Company at that time and undoubtedly operated entirely on his own after this period, with William Pickens as his exhibition promoter.

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