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at Los Angeles on March 16th, 1915, while flying for the Universal Film Company.  Campbell then returned to LaGrone as a mechanic at the Schiller School and LaGrone taught him to fly that summer.  He made his first solo flight there on October 17th.  [[strikethrough]] Then continued his practice and [[/strikethrough]] Improving in skill, he became the fourth pilot Co. B, First Aero Squadron at Monterey, California, through 1916.

In late 1916 Campbell started to work for the Glenn L. Martin Company, Santa Ana, California, where he remained until mid-1917 when he went to Buffalo, New York, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] to become an inspector.  He then tested engines and machine guns for the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company until November 15, 1918, when he left to join the Naval Air Station at Akron, Ohio.  There he was a flight engineer on blimps.  The job was mainly flight testing and Campbell made several [[strikethrough]] worthy contributions [[/strikethrough]] improvements in the development of the Navy Class "C" dirigibles.  While there he had his first personal experience in [[strikethrough]] "wing walking" and other [[/strikethrough]] aerial acrobatics when quite often his duties required him to leave the [[strikethrough]] nacelle [[/strikethrough]] airship car in mid-air, crawl out and hang on to the motor-supporting structure [[strikethrough]] in mid-air [[/strikethrough]] while he worked on a malfunctioning engine [[strikethrough]] in flight [[/strikethrough]].

In March, 1919, the Army's Balloon Section took over this work and Campbell decided to join George "Buck" Weaver and his brother-in-law, Charles Meyers, on a barnstorming tour of the middle west [[strikethrough]] as one of their crew [[/strikethrough]].  They were a couple of seasoned World War I pilots flying in war-surplus Curtiss JN-4 planes.  Campbell started with them as a mechanic but [[strikethrough]] also had other ideas. He [[/strikethrough]] soon induced Weaver and Meyers to allow him to try wing walking as an added stunt attraction. [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] He made his first exhibition of this aerial dare-deviltry at Buffalo, New York, on May 16th, 1919.  It proved to be a tremendous hit [[strikethrough]] from the start [[/strikethrough]] with the crowds when he climbed out on the wings, walked back and forth, then slid back onto the tail and ended up by hanging on the cross axle of the landing gear.  This was without doubt the very [[strikethrough]] start [[/strikethrough]] beginning of wing walking and aerial gymnastics in flight, which was soon widely copied by others and continued as a barnstormer's star attraction for 

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