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Following this, he entered the famed Chicago Meet at Grant Park August 12th through 20th.  There, on the first day, Beatty established a new American 2-man endurance record when he flew for 2 hours, 4 minutes.  On August 13th he set up a new world's 3-man record of 1 hour, 18 minutes, and August 19th broke his own 2-man record when he flew for 3 hours, 19 minutes, carrying Fred Wagner, a Chicago Tribune News photographer.  Beatty was one of the bright stars of the Meet flying a total of 24 hours, 21 minutes during the event to win second place for total duration, exceeded only by Cal Rodgers.
From Chicago, Beatty entered the Boston Meet where he flew from August 26th to September 6th, then entered the meet at Brighton Beach, L.I. September 8-10th.  He then flew at the Nassau Boulevard meet September 23rd through the 30th and again made a very creditable showing.  Following this he went to St. Louis, Mo. and flew in a meet held at Kinloch Field starting October 14th and continuing through several days.  There he carried many notable passengers, including E. Percy Noel, Editor of AERO Magazine.  Beatty continued his flying at Kinloch through October into November, doing school and passenger work.  He left St. Louis December 4th for Dayton to get a new plane at the Wright factory.  This was shipped to Buffalo, N.Y. where he had a new FRONTIER 60 H.P. 8-cyl. Vee engine installed, then made several test flights on December 21st and 22nd, following which it was shipped to Nassau Boulevard for school and passenger work.
January 1, 2 and 3, 1912 he was again flying at Nassau Boulevard, carrying passengers and starting his school activities.  On January 20th he established a record there by flying for 10 minutes carrying three passengers.  Later that day he made an extended flight over Queens, Jamaica, Hyde Park and back to Nassau.  February 13th Beatty flew over New York City and landed in Central Park, to become the FIRST person to land on Manhattan.  Return to Nassau was made the next morning.  By March 1st he had a large class of pupils and by mid-April had completed the training of sixteen students and was also busy with passenger work. March 28th he made another record by flying for 12 minutes carrying four passengers.  Beatty remained very active with his 

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