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Work. His fist date with this new machine was at Dayton, Ohio, on May 22nd he flew at Watertown, New York, then to Ogdensburg on May 24th. June 10th and 15th he put on a great show at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, Connecticut, and raced a car as an added attraction. June 16th he looped and flew upside-down on Long Island carrying Steve MacGordon as passenger. 

Niles continued exhibition flying in the east, then on August 8th took over the "exhibition spot" at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco as Art Smith left. He was there doing a great job of daily acrobatics, looping and night flights with fireworks until his contract expired on November 6th [[strikethrough]] and did a [[/strikethrough]]. While in San Franscisco he was having the Christofferson Brothers build a new exhibition biplane for him. With this new machine and his monoplane Niles left the United States on November 20th on an exhibition tour of the Orient. There he received tremendous ovations when he put on his acrobatic shows before great crowds including royalty. During this period he flew at Shanghai, Hongkong, Peiping and Canton in China.

In April, 1916, Niles flew at Manile, then went [[strikethrough]] back [[/strikethrough]] to Japan. He returned to the United States in late May and in mid-June was in New York where he initially flight tested the M.F.P. tractor biplane at Garden City, Long Island, after which he started on an exhibition tour of the midwest. On June 25th while putting on his show at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the left wing collapsed during a maneuver and he fell into a wooded area. He was taken from the wreckage alive and rushed to the hospital where he died on June 27, 1916, at age 26. His bride of about one month was from the Philippines. His body was returned to Rochester for funeral services held June 30th and he was buried in nearby Williamson, New York [[strikethrough]] Cemetery [[/strikethrough]].

Flying Pioneer Charles F. Niles was indeed one of the most active and daring young aviators of that early era. He originated and developed a science of acrobatic flying which proved to future World War I flying Aces what could be done with an [[strikethrough]] aeroplane [[/strikethrough]] airplane. His fame at stunting led to his being called "Do Anything Niles." His flying ability was obviously ahead of the [[strikethrough]] safe [[/strikethrough]] limited structural knowledge [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] of airplane building at that time. [[strikethrough]] and it [[/strikethrough]] This limitation eventually cost him his life. He apparently was one

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