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Over 60 flights were made without accidents. Orville Wright also made several flights carrying distinguished passengers. Having had more flying experience than the other newly trained pilots, Brooking stole the show and was in the air a total of seven hours and fifty-nine minutes. On June 17th he won a $5,000 prize for the highest flight during the event, climbing to 4,380 feet. The climb took one hour and four minutes, then he purposely descended in six 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 do some figure eights and turns as a demonstration of the airplane's maneuverability. Without their knowledge he had, while in 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 six seconds. When he landed he found the Wrights very alarmed, concerned that he might have crashed. Brookins later was able to make these turns in five seconds, a type of very tight horizontal loop, rapidly losing altitude, called the spiral glide or spiral drop, for which he became famous.

Brookins flew in an air meet at Lakeside, near Montreal, Canada, June 28th to July 5th with Johnstone, Coffyn, LaChapelle and DeLesseps. There he made the first flight ever in Quebec Province when he opened the meet. During the event he established the first Canadian altitude record of 3,150 feet. From there Brookins flew at Atlantic City, New Jersey, July 8th to 12th with Glenn Curtiss, where he put on a great show of dips, dives and short quick circles. On July 9th he established a new world altitude record there by flying to 6,175 feet in one hour and three minutes, becoming the first man to fly over one mile high. 

Brookins then returned to Toronto, Canada, where he flew in a meet starting July 14th. There also were Johnstone, Coffyn, and DeLesseps. On July 22, 1910, Brookins made the first flight in a Wright plane with wheels at Dayton, starting without the use of the monorail. Between exhibition engagements, Brookins and 

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