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

that type of flying. As a result he spent the early months of 1914 at Hempstead practicing acrobatic flying. His major objective was looping, but in the process he worked on "wing overs", falling leaf, upside-down flight and about every flight maneuver in the book, and he had some hair raising experiences trying to loop. On February 3d his plane dropped tail first during one of these attempts and he had a difficult time recovering control. On April 27th he had a bad smashup while flying inverted at a low altitude when his engine quit and he was unable to recover. He wrecked the plane but walked away with only a broken nose. On April 30th he flew a Kanter-Moisant plane to 11,000 feet before Mexican agents and cut some capers on the way down, resulting in the sale of some planes to Mexico.

By May Niles was looping, and on June 23d looped over lower Manhattan. On July 4th he flew a Boland flying boat in a race from Governors Island, New York. On August 1st he was engaged to loop and put on a show of his aerial antics daily for one week at Coney Island Resert [[Resort]]. There one day he dropped a "dummy man", to the horror of thousands of spectators. Following this he obtained an extensive contract to put on his show for business men at various neighboring Long Island beach resorts. September 28th to October 7th he stunted at the Trenton State Fair, Trenton, New Jersey, then filled a similar engagement at Ithaca, New York.

After this engagement Niles was sent to Mexico to demonstrate Moisant planes to that Government. There it soon developed that Niles was Chief of the Carranza Aviation Corps and had charge of several Mexican aviators who had previously trained in the United States at the Moisant School. Later Niles and Carranza split and he became head of the Federal Air Service.

Niles became ill with malaria fever and returned to the United States in March, 1915. While in Mexico he was reportedly the first man to fly over Mexico City, where he landed in a public square. Niles evidently was no longer working for Moisant and after a rest and recuperation he started flying again on Long Island, New York where he put the new Huntington biplane through its first flight tests at Garden City about May 1st. At that time he was having a new 2-seat loop monoplane, with 90 H.P. Gyro engine, built by the Huntington Aircraft company for exhibition

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