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was to supervise the assembly and test of those planes, with an extensive program of demonstrations and sales planned for other South American countries. On April 15th McCulloch took President Hermes da Fonesca of Brazil for a ride over Rio Bay. In June President Fonesca bought a plane for his son and McCulloch taught him to fly. That summer McCulloch established a flying school at Rio de Janeiro and five training planes were delivered. He did a lot of flying that summer and taught a number of students in addition to giving demonstrations. He returned to New York in December and remained in the United States for an extended visit over the holiday season. On December 24th he flew tests for a pilot license at Hammondsport with a 100 hp., flying boat and was granted F.A.I. Hydro Certificate No. 16 dated January 28, 1914. On January 14th he became a member of the Aero Club of America.

After his visit home he returned to South America for the Curtiss Company where he had aroused much interest in flying and Curtiss planes. There is evidence that McCulloch remained in South America through 1914, then in June, 1915, he was flying a Curtiss flying boat for the Pennsylvania National Guard at Philadelphia, where McCulloch was training Naval Militia recruits. In August he and F.C.J. Eden considered starting a flying school in the New York area. McCulloch entered the Curtiss Marine Trophy Contest for 1915 and on October 10th made ten round trip flights between Hammondsport and Penn Yan, New York, over Lake Keuka, totaling 480 miles. He started at 8:55 a.m. and finished at 4:37 p.m. Reportedly he bettered this record later but that year he did not win the contest. Later he was given the Aero Club of America Medal of Merit for these flights.

In late October he sailed for Italy for the Curtiss Company to train Italian Naval officers to fly Curtiss planes sold to the government. Also flying there were American pilots Harold Kantner, J. Lansing Callan and Charles Fay. McCulloch returned to the United States in June, 1916, and became an instructor for the Eastern Seaboard Aerial Coast Patrol unit at Port Washington, Long Island, using a Curtiss flying boat donated by Rodman Wanamaker of the Trans-Oceanic Company of America. 

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