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remained at Cicero through July, then flew at Cascade, Iowa, August 3rd to 5th. Returning to Cicero, he gave the EX a thorough overhauling, installed stronger spars in the wings, and on August 29th was flying again. September 16 to 18th he flew at Aledo, Illinois, September 23rd to 25th at Vassar, Michigan, and September 30th through October 2nd he was at Bellaire, Michigan. That fall Wiggin again shipped South for the winter months and he, with an aunt who was the Gerogia State Librarian, and Mrs. Wiggin, went to Georgia Institute of Technology in an effort to have them establish a "Chair of Aviation" but were turned down.

That winter he formed the Wiggin School of Aviation at Jacksonville, Florida, with H. K. Crowell as assistant instructor. They based their operations at Atlantic Beach and also had a resort guest passenger-carry-ing business with the Atlantic Beach Hotel. In mid-March, after several routine flights Wiggin and Crowell were making a special flight together to take air-view pictures of the hotel, when the elevator broke and jammed in such a way that they completely lost elevator control. Wiggin kept his head and steered the plane out to sea. Leaving Crowell to operate the lateral control, he climbed forward on the skids and  [[/crossed-out]] forced  [[/crossed-out]] nosed the plane down into a glide. From a height of about 250 feet they succeeded in bringing the plane down about a mile off shore and were promplty rescued by a motor launch. This [[/crossed-out]] skillfully  [[/crossed-out]] spectacular ending of a [[/crossed-out]]n [[/crossed-out]]near-accident was witnessed by resort crowds on the beach.

Wiggin continued exhibition work until World War I, when he became an instructor at several government flying fields. Toward the end of the war he became an experimental test pilot, flying, among other types, the large multi-motored Caproni bomber. During World War I Wiggin reportedly con-ceived the initial idea for the pilots' ejector seat and gave the plans to the Air Force for their development and use. He continued active flying until 1925, after which he made occasional flights in small planes for his

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