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instructing at times when necessary.

About November 15 [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]], 1911, the Wrights decided to withdraw from the exhibition business and released all of their aviators except Al Welsh, who was retained as an instructor and test pilot. Since their first training period at the Wright School Turpin and Parmelee had been close friends and had flown together many times on exhibition dates. After being released they decided to go to California for the winter and took two Wright airplanes with them, intending to do exhibition and passenger flying. One was a standard passenger model, the other an EX single-seat machine.

They entered the Los Angeles Meet, held January 14 [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] to 28 [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]], 1912, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] Turpin made check flights on both planes at Dominquez Field on January 9th just after they had been assembled. From then until the meet he and Parmelee [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] were both flying actively in preparation for the event. During the meet both did remarkable flying and helped [[strikethrough]] materially [[/strikethrough]] in making it a success. Following this both flew at the Oakland, California, meet February 17th to 25th, then on March 2nd and 3rd were at Agricultural Park, Sacramento, California. There Turpin and Parmelee entered into a seven week contract, starting March 25th, flying every weekend from [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] the beach at Venice, California. [[strikethrough]] There [[/strikethrough]] They made exhibition flights to attract the crowds, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] carried passengers, and as an added attraction to their show, they engaged professional parachute jumper, Grant Morton, to make jumps. [[strikethrough]] These were reportedly the first parachute jumps every made from aeroplanes. [[/strikethrough]]

While flying there Turpin and Parmelee decided to form a partnership and go into the exhibition business in earnest. [[strikethrough]] Evidently [[/strikethrough]] Feeling they should have new, more modern, and faster airplanes they ought two Gage tractor biplanes with Hall-Scott 60 hp. engines. Their engagement ended at Venice about April 15th and the first date with their new planes was at Hastings Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, [[strikethrough]] Canada [[/strikethrough]] on May 24th to 26th. Here they had a dangerous assignment. The field was very small and completely surrounded by trees with an electric power line at one end. Due to high customs duties they took only one airplane with them, but despite the hazards they put on a very good show and both made several excellent flights. Their chutist was scheduled to be a part of the show but was ill and could not perform

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