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late in the season and gave up the idea. December 23rd, he entertained the Rhode Island Boy Scouts at his hangar at Darlington. He gave the boys a talk on flying and then made a number of flights, taking some of them for a ride. 
He remained at his home over the winter months and started flying again in the spring of 1914. In June McGee flew to Nyatt, Rhode Island, to visit his friend, J. J. McCoy. On July 14th he flew to Springfield, Massachusetts, for a month's exhibition engagement at Riverside Park, an entertainment resort, where he made daily exhibition flights and carried passengers. Following this he finished the season at Pawtucket. 
In March 1915, McGee became test pilot for the B. Stephens and Sons Company of Field Point, who were finishing a new flying boat, the first ever built in Rhode Island. It was a two-seater, side-by-side pusher biplane, using a 12-cylinder, opposed-type, air-cooled 105 h.p. Ashmussen engine. McGee started taxiing tests on this machine in April and shortly thereafter began flying it, and in August flew it at the Oakland Beach resort, Rhode Island. Later that month, while flying the Stephens flying boat over Attleboro, Massachusetts, the engine crankshaft broke, but McGee made a safe alighting. In September he filled some exhibition engagements for his friend, Curtiss pilot W. S. Lucky, who had suffered serious injuries in a crash in Canada and could not appear. September 28th and 29th McGee flew at the Greenfield, Massachusetts, Fair, making two 20-minute flights a day, as well as carrying passengers while there.
Apparently McGee retired from public exhibition flying in 1916, but in the sprint of 1917 he wanted to help with the war effort when the United States entered World War 1. As a result he became Chief Pilot for the Gallaudet Aircraft Company in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. This firm was in the process of designing and building new type planes for the war effort and

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