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late 1910 he returned to California where, during the second Los Angeles air meet, he secured Willard's old passenger-carrying, extra span, Curtiss-type biplane. Masson installed a new 8-cylinder 60 H.P. Hall-Scott engine, and with this plane he really learned to fly. Willard had called the plane BANSHEE, but Masson changed the name to the PEGASUS. With this plane he a fine flight on January 1st, passing over Santa Barbara. On January 7th he made an outstanding flight of 75 miles, carrying a bundle of Los Angeles TIMES newspapers. On the flight he cross Los Angeles, over Pomona and Rochester and on to San Bernardino. He continued his practice and in late January teamed up with Early Bird B. F. Roehrig to start an exhibition tour of the southwest. After dates at Bisbee and Globe, Arizona they gave up the venture as a financial failure.

On May 7th Masson Clarence Walker made exhibition flights at Oakland, California, and May 27th they left for an exhibition tour of Hawaii and Australia. In June they were flying in Hawaii.

After returning Masson and two mechanics but;t a new 50-Gnome-powered Curtiss-type biplane with parts made by the California Aviation Company of San Fransisco. When it was completed Masson started flying exhibitions with the new plane and was at Calgary, Alberta, Canada October 17th to 26th at the Victoria Park grounds.

About this time Masson met Ivan R. Gates who was recovering from a serious automobile accident, Gates had learned to fly that year and the two men became close friends. As a result Gates, still on crutches, became Masson's exhibition promotion manager. In December Masson and Weldon B. Cooke flew at the Oakland, California motordrome for several days.

In February, 1912 Masson was at San Rafael and filled other dates in California. In May their operations were moved to Chicago, Illinois where they joined Mills Aviators exhibition circuit of the midwest for the season, along with Art Smith, Nels Nelson and Fred Hoover. Gates became promotion manager for the group. After an active season Masson and Gates returned to California that fall where they parted company, and Masson joined the Glenn Martin Flying School at Balboa, California as instructor. There on December 29th he flew his tests for pilot license and obtained F.A.I. Certificate No. 202, dates January 8, 1913, flying a 60 H.P. Hall-  

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[[left margin]] From the flying pioneers biographies of Harold E. Morehouse