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Washington, D.C., and at College Park, Maryland. During late November, he tested new and rebuilt planes, then left for exhibition work in the South. 

In February, 1913, Brindley was sent to the Army school at Augusta, Georgia, to test new Wright planes and demonstrate the "Wright Speed Scout" for the Wright Company. In May he demonstrated Speed Speed Scouts at College Park, Maryland, for the company. On May 31st he became instructor at the Wright School, Dayton, as it opened for spring training, and also did some of the preliminary test flying on the new Model "E" single-propeller machine. June 6th he went to College Park for tests and on June 7th announced that he made arrangements to continue exhibition flying for William Gabriel of St. Louis, Missouri, during the summer when he was not teaching and demonstrating for the Wright Company. In June his studies at Simms were: Bernard Whelan, Maurice Priest, John Bixler, Augustus Bressman, Maurice Schermerhorn, W.E. Bowersox and Roderick M. Wright. In September he taught Lindop E. Brown, A.B. Gaines, Jr., Howard M. Rinehart and C.J. Peterson. During November Brindley received instruction from Orville Wright on the new Wright hydros and flying air boats on the Miami River south of Dayton. 

In December Brindley was sent to North Island Army Field, San Diego, California, by the Wright Company to instruct military flyers on the Wright machines and, at government request, to take charge of the training at the Post over the winter months. He was still there in August, 1914, in the interest of the government and the Wright Company. In late August he demonstrated a special new Wright plane, a type "F", which had an armored pilot seat and was fitted with a foreign-made Austro-Daimler engine. On September 25th, Brindley and Lieutenant Carberry made a 300-mile cross-country flight in the special armored Wright plane, flying from San Diego to Los Angeles, and on the return from Los Angeles to the Mexican border, then back to North Island, at altitudes of 3,500 to 5,000 feet. While at North Island he trained many flight officers