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Havens remained in Detroit for some time with the Curtiss craft carrying passengers and demonstrating the machine. Both Scripps and Peck had rides and five days later Scripps ordered one of these planes. A bit later Peck also ordered one, and before leaving Havens gave him some instruction. Scripp's Curtiss machine was delivered in August and Curtiss pilot representative Elwood "Gink" Doherty came to supervise assembly of the plane and give Scripps any needed instruction. While Doherty was there he also gave Peck some additional instruction on the Scripps plane.

After Peck's plane was delivered Doherty came again and completed Peck's instruction in mid-October. Peck did some practice flying that fall, then in mid-May, 1914 put his boat in operation again. On his first flight of the season he took his wife for an extended 70 mile flight over the Detroit River and Lake Saint Clair. Operating from the Detroit Motor Boat Club on Belle Isle, he was flying very actively during the 1914 summer season, purely for sport and carrying passengers. He also taught a friend, W. E. Davidson, that summer. Peck became a great ambassador of the sport and introduced flying to many of the citie's social and industrial leaders.

In 1915 Peck was flying actively again and quite often he and Mrs. Peck would fly to their summer cottage on upper Lake Saint Clair for the weekend. That winter he went to Florida for a vacation which resulted in his later decision to spend his winters there annually, beginning in 1917.

Peck did some more flying in 1916 at Detroit, then apparently was forced to give it up through World War I and it does not appear that he took it up again after the war.

He established a winter home at Palatka, Florida and while there was drowned while swimming at Daytona Beach on September 6th, 1928, at age 60. He was survived by a son in California. His remains were returned to Detroit for burial in Elmwood Cemetery.

Flying pioneer Barton L. Peck was a wealthy business man who took up water flying purely for the sport of it. He loved it and enjoyed taking all his friends for rides and in this way helped to create interest in flying and the early small aircraft industry by buying a plane and becoming an enthusiast of the sport.
 
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