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structor and, with assistance of Welsh, finished the training of Hoxsey and LaChapelle and immediately started teaching Johnston and Coffyn. A very rush training program was carried on during the first ten days of June and over 160 instruction flights were made, as the first exhibition engagement of the new Wright student group was to be held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on June 13th to 18th, and every one was having to hustle to be as ready as possible for the event. The Wright Company had five planes at the meet, and with very little previous flying experience Brookins, Hoxsey, Welsh, Johnston, Goffyn, and LaChapelle all made flights and put on a very successful showing. Over 60 flights were made without accidents. Orville Wright also made several flights carrying distinguished passengers. Having had more flying experience that the other men Brookins somewhat stole the show and was in the air a total of 7 hours, 59 minutes. On June 17th he won a $5,000 prize for the highest flight during the event, flying to 4,380 feet. The climb to 1 hour, 4 minutes, then he purposely descended in 6 minutes with a dead engine. This flight was also the duration record for the meet.
     After he had won the altitude prize the Wrights asked Brookins to go up and so some figure eights and turns as a show. Without their knowledge he had, while at Montgomery, experimented and practiced making quick turns and had developed a stunt they had not seen. He went up, put the plane in a very steep bank and demonstrated some quick turns, making complete circles in about 6 seconds, a type of falling, very tight horizontal loop, called the spiral glide or spinal drop, for which he later became famous.
    Brookins flew in air meet at Lakeside, near Montreal, Canada June 26th to July 5th with Johnston, Coffyn, LaChapelle and DeLesseps. There he made the first flight ever made in Quebec Province when he opened the meet. During the event he established the first Canadian altitude record of 3,150 feet. From