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[[stamped]] FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE [[/stamped]]

He soon started to use parachutes and added jumping to his growing schedules. He became known as "Daredevil Campbell" and during the summer of 1920 made an exhibition tour of several Canadian cities and eastern United States putting on his latest acts.

In November, 1920 he returned to California and at that time was employed by the Irving Parachute Company on chute developments. During the winter months of 1920-1921 he again worked for the movie concerns and made exhibitions at various California cities. Again in 1921 Campbell made the Canadian and eastern United States exhibition tour, and towards the end of the season broke his ankle in one of the jumps, which necessitated the cancellation of the balance of his contracts to return home.

In the spring of 1922 he was back in business and working for the Marshal Neilan Pictures Corporation. Campbell continued this work until the spring of 1923 when he gave up his aerial acrobatic antics, deciding he had better quit while he was ahead. During this work he devoted considerable time to the development of parachutes, and even though he had never received any credit for it, the same basic vital features he worked out at that time are still used in modern parachutes of today. All of this was done before the Army Air Service had accepted parachutes for their aviators. Air Service officers visited Campbell on several occasions for demonstrations of his chute during the course of Government parachute developments. 

During his exhibition work Campbell had also done a lot of flying and had become a very expert aviator. Although others copied his act and became aerial stunt men Campbell always remained "tops" in his field, and during his extended career in this hazardous work he performed many hair-raising aerial feats. It is known he filled over 400 exhibition engagements in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and made a fabulously unknown number of parachute jumps under every condition. He was first to jump

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