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authorized mail at Lima, Ohio on June 6th-8th, Portsmouth, Ohio June 27th-28th, Hamilton, Ohio on July 13th, Benton Harbor, Michigan July 17th and 18th and at Dubuque, Iowa on July 21st, 1912.

The Curtiss Company now had Walsh flying one of the small headless exhibition type 75 H.P. pusher biplanes and he was doing active acrobatic flying at all of his engagements. In early September he flew in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the returned to Long Island, N.J. where he was to fly at Hampstead for a few days. There he created a sensation by his flights over the city and up Broadway. Following this Mrs. Walsh and the children went to Mammondsport for a few days while Charles went to Trenton, N.J. where he was to fly at the Interstate Fairgrounds. There on October 3rd, 1912 he was killed while flying before a huge crowed who were watching him give a marvelous exhibition of tight spiralling. At about 2,000 ft. the left wing collapsed and he fell about one fourth mile, outside the Fairgrounds. Waiting and watching in the stands was President Woodrow Wilson who had accepted an invitation to take a ride with Walsh after he landed. Walsh was buried in Calvary Cemetery, San Diego, California beside his mother whom he had never known, she having passed away when he was two years old.

Flying Pioneer Charles F. Walsh loved flying. Self taught on early planes be built himself without previous knowledge or training, and with no financial assistance, he struggled through those early days of hi aviation career with the help and encouragement of his good wife, under setbacks and disgouragements that would have stopped most men. Always enthusiastic and determined, he deserves everlasting credit for his many early aviation accomplishments. A very active aviator, he became one of the leading Curtiss exhibition performers in early sensational flying. His name and the recognition of his work will forever remain in the pages of early American aviation history.

Mrs. Alice Walsh-Martin is still living in California and much credit is given her for contributing a major part of this biography.


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