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[[stamp]] FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE [[/stamp]]

Masson and also did some instructing that month, and through June at the Mills School in Chicago. He then successfully tested his new plane on floats at Jackson Park, Chicago, on July 1st. He took the new plane on the road at once and flew it at Washburn, Wisconsin July 4th, at Janesville, Wisconsin July 6th and made some aerial movies there. On July 13th he and Art Smith flew at Kellerton, Iowa. 

On July 24th Nelson flew for his home townspeople at New Britain, Connecticut then July 26th and 27th he flew with Charles Hamilton at the Berlin, Connecticut Fairgrounds where on the 27th they fought an aerial sham battle for the enjoyment of the crowds. Nelson flew at Jackson, Michigan August 10th to 12th, then at Eaton Rapids, Michigan on the 24th. Following this he returned to Cicero Field, Chicago, and flew his license tests on August 18th and was granted F.A.I. Certificate No. 161, dated August 22d, 1912.

On August 24th Nelson test flew a new plane, with a gyro rotary engine, for the Mills Company at Cicero Field. September 4th he flew an exhibition with his own plane at Chilton, Wisconsin, September 12th to 14th he was at the Green County Fair, Monroe, Wisconsin, and November 21st, he flew an exhibition on floats at Hartford, Connecticut to finish the 1912 season, and apparently this ended his connections with Mills Aviators. 

In January, 1913 he sold his 1912 plane to Mills Student, Al Wilson, and that winter was busy making a new flying boat, Plane No. 5. This was a pusher biplane using a 6-cylinder 75 H.P. Roberts engine. It was completed on March 22d and first tests were conducted at New Britain on April 21st. The boat flew well and he was flying it regularly through May. Reportedly it was short-lived, due to a landing accident on Long Island Sound, but Nelson was working on Plane No. 6, which was another Curtiss-type, headless pusher biplane patterned after his 1912 machine. As soon as this plane was finished Nelson used it in the New England area for the early part of the season, then shipped back to Cicero Field, Chicago where he was flying in August.

That fall he filled some exhibition dates in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and was at Preston, Minnesota on September 10th to 12th and Lancaster, Wisconsin September 

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