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In July the Wrights "borrowed" Coffyn from Alger for exhibition work and his first date was at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, from the 15th to 22nd. There he put on a highly satisfactory show, carried several passengers and raced a car and motorcycle at the Fairgrounds. Following this Coffyn was a contestant at the famed Chicago Meet at Grand Park August 12th to 20th, where the Wright Company had all their available aviators. There, on the first day, he established a new record with a Wright plane when he carried two passengers for [[strikethrough]] 12 [[/strikethrough]] twelve minutes. During the event Coffyn entered most of the daily contests and made a good showing. He was then a contestant at the Harvard-Boston Meet August 26th to September 4th. Immediately following this Coffyn and Howard Gill flew at the Minnesota State Fair at Minneapolis-St. Paul [[strikethrough]] with Howard Gill [[/strikethrough]] for one week where they put on a fine show in good weather.

After this event Coffyn returned to Detroit and resumed his work with the Algers. Toward the end of September the new floats were completed and on October 3rd he made the first flight from Lake St. Clair with ease. Other flights followed that day and they were delighted with the performance of the plane as it took off with only the 30 [[strikethrough]] H.P. [[/strikethrough]] h.p. engine. These were undoubtedly the first flights from the water ever made with an early Wright plane. Soon he started carrying passengers and on October 16th took Mrs. Russell Alger for a ride and then several of her lady friends. Later that day he took Fred Alger on a flight across Lake St. Clair and back, 23 miles each way. On the 18th he took Russell Alger across the lake; [[strikethrough]] where [[/strikethrough]] they had lunch at a Club on the Canadian side and then returned. This plane on floats was operated there for the remainder of the 1911 flying season by Coffyn and the Alger brothers.

During the fall of 1911 the Wrights decided to discontinue the exhibition business and dismissed all of their aviators except Al Welsh, who was retained as instructor and test pilot. At this time Coffyn went to New York where he soon had a contract with the Vitagraph Film Company to make aerial photographs of New York City and vicinity. Russell Alger very courteously lent the use of the plane with floats he had been flying in Detroit and Coffyn started operations from

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last line in 2nd paragraph = edit mark in left margin referencing Alger Brothers where the "B" is crossed out.