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

events at Fairs with two airships. In September they were at the Tennessee State Fair at Nashville, and in early October St. Louis, Missouri held a centennial celebration including balloon races. Roy and Beachey attended with their airships, while Glenn Curtiss was engaged to fly his aeroplane on three days.

After seeing Curtiss fly Roy approached him about the possibility of holding an aviation meet at Los Angeles that winter. Curtiss agreed and largely through Roy's efforts the very first aviation meet in America was held at Dominguez Field, Los Angeles January 10th to 20th with Curtiss, Willard, Hamilton and Paulhan flying planes while Roy and Beachey raced their airships. The meet was a success and it was evident that Roy was experienced and capable of promoting and managing Ballooning and aviation exhibitions.

At this time the Wright Brothers were convinced they should enter the exhibition business and approached Roy about heading up such a department for them. As a result he started at Dayton about May 1st, 1910 to promote air meets for the Wrights, furnish airship flights and select and engage a team of exhibition pilots to be trained at the Wright School. He remained with the Wrights in this capacity until the fall of 1911 when they decided to eliminate the exhibition portion of their business. He stated later that during that period they had wrecked eighteen planes, killed two pilots and netted the company over $500,000 earnings. It is recorded that Roy tried his hand at flying a plane at Simms Station, Ohio, during that period.

After leaving the Wrights Roy at once became exhibition manager for Glenn Martin and arranged his flight schedule through the southwestern states during the last of 1911. 

After returning to Los Angeles he again helped promote and manage the air meet at Dominguez Field held January 19th to 28th, 1912. The affair was a distinct success and one of the first early meets to show a profit. After the event Roy teamed up with former Wright pilot Walter Brookins to start construction of a large 12-passenger airship with which they planned to make regular intercity flights between Pasadena and Long Beach, California. Roy continued on 

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