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[[strikethrough]] to their deaths [[/strikethrough]] occurred. After Johnstone's death, Hoxsey took over and did the flying [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] while Brookins departed with Johnstone's remains to his home in Kansas City. [[crossed-out]]As a result Peterson and his friend saw Hoxsey fly on the remaining days of the event.[[/crossed-out]]

As soon as Peterson saw Hoxsey in the air he was so thrilled [[crossed-out]]and overcome by the spectacle[[/crossed-out]] that he told his friend, "Man, there's real sport. Some day I'm going to fly like that." His enthusiastic decision made there during Hoxsey's flights remained firm and the following year he joined with other aviation enthusiasts in an unsuccessful attempt to start an aeronautical venture in Denver. Peterson's determination to learn to fly kept growing and by 1913 he had saved enough to go to Dayton where he enrolled for flight instruction at the Wright Company Flying School. He started his lessons during mid-September from company instructor Oscar Brindley. Other students also [[strikethrough]]there at that time[[/strikethrough]] enrolled were Howard Rinehart, Lindop E. Brown and Albert B. Gaines. Peterson was an apt pupil and made excellent progress. By mid-October Peterson and Gaines took their flying license tests together, Peterson being issued License No. 270 on October 18, 1913, at Simms Station, Ohio, on a school Wright. His test fights and the required spot landings were unusually accurate, [[crossed-out]]and well executed,[[/crossed-out]] landing precisely on the mark every time, to the admiration of the judges and spectators.
   
Upon completing the course and his tests at Dayton, Peterson returned to Denver where he had been engaged to fly a plane built by the General Aviation Company of that city. This firm had been formed in October, 1910, headed by E. J. Cavanaugh and a number of local businessmen. They proposed to manufacture and sell [[strikethrough]]aero[[/strikethrough]] airplanes. [[crossed-out]]and[[/crossed-out]] Their first, [[crossed-out]]machine[[/crossed-out]] a monoplane, was completed in 1911 but it was not successful. This was followed by a modified Wright-copy, designed and constructed by Arthur C. Wagner. It was ready to test fly in 1912, equipped with floats. [[crossed-out]]and[[/crossed-out]] Ivy Baldwin made numerous short partially successful flights with this machine at Sloans Lake [[strikethrough]]for[[/strikethrough]] during the remainder of that year and into 1913, many of which ended [[strikethrough]]in mishaps[[/strikethrough]] with minor damage.

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