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soon a crowd gathered at the flying field. Not to disappoint them he went up again, but soon saw that people were crowding on to the field so he decided to land at once. In doing so he just missed the top of a Navy tent hangar, striking two sisters who were perched up there to observe his flying, knocking them to the ground, killing one girl and seriously injuring the other. This caused Beachey to crash, wrecking the new plane, but he was not injured. [[strikethrough]It was felt T[[/strikethrough]] this accident [[strikethrough] might [[/strikethrough may have been due to [[strikethrough]]the fact that he was using[[/strikethrough]] his use of a new and faster plane after an extended layoff from flying.

The plane was rebuilt and shipped to North Island, San Diego, California, where Beachey began flying it again on November 16th. There he practiced acrobatics and inverted flying, leading up to looping, which he accomplished for the first time on November 25th, 1913, when he made three loops in succession over the Polo Grounds at Coronado. At that time [[strikethrough]EB] Early Bird Art Mix became Beachey's mechanic and continued with him for the remainder of his flying career. Beachey continued his practice and developed what he called the "Beachey Bore," a spinning dive which he added to his [[strikethrough]]antics[[/strikethrough]] acrobatics. On this machine he was using both lap and shoulder safety belts. By December 28th he had made 32 loops at five coast towns and was attracting huge crowds. He also raced Barney Oldfield's Stutz racer at tracks wherever possible. As an added attraction.

On January 2nd, 1914 Beachey took of from [[strikethrough]]outside[[/strikethrough] a field and flew into the huge new Machinery Hall Building at the Panama Pacific Exposition Grounds. This was a stunt for the movies, ut he smashed against a wall in attempting to land inside the building. On January 4th he made seven loops before crowds at San Francisco, then on January 10th he had a smashup at Oakland, California while racing Oldfield and was slightly injured. Beachey made his 67th loop at San Francisco on January 25th, and that month ordered a special small loop-type biplane from Glenn L. Martin, using a 50 [[strikethrough]H].[[strikethrough]P]. Gnome engine. He looped at Santa Barbara, California on March 1st and had another minor smashup in landing. During march he [[strikethrough]] reportedly [[/strikethrough] wrecked the new Martin tractor during early tests. In late March, Beachey obtained [[strikethrough]]the first[[/strikethrough] a Wright license to do exhibition flying, then he sailed for France to buy Gone [[strikethrough]] motors[[/strikethrough] engines, for future use in his exhibition

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