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A resident in Dayton, the fact that he knew Hoxsey may have influenced the Wright's decision. The Wright Brothers had decided to go into the exhibition business and hired the renowned dirigible and balloon man, Roy Knabenshue, to become their exhibition manager and take charge of the entire program. They need a team of young new civilian aviators for this program and Hoxsey became one of the first students to be trained for exhibition work.
To get an early training program started, a flying school has been established in March at Montgomery, Alabama, and Hoxsey and A.L. Welsh arrived there as students in early April. Orville Wright was then teaching Walter Brookins, J.W. Davis and Spencer Crane, and the arrival of Hoxsey and Welsh made a total of five students. By late April Brookins was flying alone and on May 8th Orville Wright and Welsh returned to Dayton, leaving Brookins in charge of the school. On May 26th Brookins carried Hoxsey as a passenger on several moonlight flights, among the first in history. Brookins continued the training of Hoxsey and Crane until the end of May when they broke camp and returned to Dayton. Meanwhile, the Wrights had opened their school for the summer at Simms Station where Orville Wright had completed training Welsh's and started teaching Duval LaChapelle. When the group fro Montgomery arrived in Dayton, Brookins took over as instructor and with the assistance of Welsh, completed the training of Hoxsey and LaChapelle and started teaching Johnstone and Coffyn, immediately. 
A concentrated training program was carried on during the first ten days of June and over 160 instruction flights were made. The first exhibition engagement of the new Write student group was to be held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, on June 13th to 18th everyone was hustling to be as ready as possible for this event. During this school period hoxsey and Johnstone became close friends, but a rivalry was starting between them that later developed into quite a problem for the Wrights.
The upright Company had five planes at the Indianapolis Speedway meet, and with the very little previous flying experience Brookins, Hoxsey, Welsh, Johnstone,