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season. April 6th to 10th he assisted Curtiss with the demonstration of a hydro at Salt Lake City, Utah, and April 12th to 14th he probably made the first flights in South Dakota when he flew at Rapid City. His flying was wonderful and he had the entire section of the country at his feet. Even the deadpan local Indians broke into wild applause. Then he made the first flights ever made in Alberta Province, Canada, when he flew at the Edmonton Horse Show from April 29th through May 1st. May 4th to 7th Robinson was at Washington, D.C., with McCurdy and Beachey where they flew at the Benning Race Track. Robinson made several flights and while there attempted to fly for his license but failed when his engine quit, forcing him to land in a marsh.

He then flew at Paducah, Kentucky, May 18th and 19th and joined James Ward at Chickasha, Oklahoma, where they flew at the State Editors Convention on May 23rd and 24th and at Lincoln, Nebraska, May 25th and 26th. In June Robinson and Ward exhibited at Joplin, Missouri; Little Rock, Arkansas; then Topeka, Ottawa, and Salina, Kansas. June 24th to 26th Robinson was at Kinloch Field, St. Louis, where he carried passengers, including A.B. Lambert and newspaper men. July 3rd and 4th he flew at Cairo, Illinois, then at Mayfield, Kentucky, on July 7th and 8th where he made six flights before huge crowds and flew over the city. From there he went to Hammondsport to fly a new hydro which he was to use extensively for the remainder of the 1911 season, becoming the first of the Curtiss exhibition pilots to do so. July 13th to 15th he was in Rochester, New York; July 20th to 22nd at Seattle, Washington; and July 29th and 30th at Vincennes, Indiana.

On August 5th Robinson was a close second in the Gimbel Brothers $5,000 race from New York to Philadelphia. Beachey was first, Ely third. The flight started from Governors Island and each pilot was required to circle the New York Gimbel's store, fly to Trenton where they stopped for gas, then to Philadelphia and circle the store there. Enroute they passed through a bad 

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