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Walker, and several local plane builders. At the Meet, Wiseman was readily chosen as the star of the group; he won prizes for distance, duration, and altitude in his class. At that time he was living in Pataluma. After the Meet he decided to gon into exhibition flying. 
On February 17, 1911, Wiseman carried mail, a budle of newspapers, and a sack of groceries from Petaluma to Santa Roasa, a 14-mile flight. In the mail, which included a number of local letters, was one from Postmaster Olmstead of Peataluma to Postmaster Tripp of Santa Rosa with comments concerning the probable significance of mail delivery by air. On the next day Wiseman carried a bundle of newspapers from Petaluma to Santa Roasa, then remained there where he flew with Bleriot-pilot James Radley for the Chamber of Commerce during the local Rosa Festival. 
On April 20th, Wiseman amde several flights at the nearby city of Vallejo, then shipped his airplane to Washington state and on May 7th flew at Everett; on May 13th and 14th at North Yakima, on the 16th at Ellensburg, and at Olympia on, the 18th. Soon thereafter he flew at Tacoma, and Seattle next at Vancouver, and Victoria in Canada. He then returned to his home, overhauled his airplane and subsituted an 80 horsepower Hall Scott engine for the 60 horsepower he had been using. 
Starting exhibition flying again in California he was at Pismo Beach on July 4th and was exhibiting his airplane and flying skill in several northern California towns during that month and August. In September he flew for one week at the California State Fair in Santa Rosa. After completing an active season that year Wiseman decided to give up flying. He sold his airplane to Jack Hendy of San Fransisco and returned to the automobile business. Later he went with the Standard Oil Company of Claifornia and eventually became an executive of that organization. When he retired he had been with the company 25 years. 
Meanwhile he was pleased to learn that his airplane of 1911 had been preserved and was suspended in a hangar at the Oakland airport. He enjoyed visiting it. In 1949

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