When it was decided that San Diego would host its own air meet immediately following the one in Los Angeles, Walsh hurried home to incorporate what he learned into his own design as he rebuilt his airplane ahead of the event. He shortened his wingspan by approximately five feet, shortened the front elevator support assembly by ten feet, and added a "horizontal plane" over the rear rudder. He also removed one of his rear rudders and abandoned his problematic chain-drive, dual-propeller configuration for a single-propeller, direct-drive system. Walsh ordered a new six-foot propeller and intended to purchase one from Charles K. Hamilton upon his arrival at Coronado for the 1910 San Diego Aviation Meet. All of this yielded a 100-pound savings in weight and better controllability. His Cameron engine was raised two feet above the lower level of the main frame and produced 2000 rpm. 1910 San Diego Aviation Meet During the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field, Charles K. Hamilton was invited by some San Diego businessmen to come to Coronado Island and attempt to beat the altitude record that Louis Paulhan set during that meet. For the people of San Diego, the event was about attracting aviation to San Diego and raising money for the Panama-California Exposition the city planned to host in 1915. Glenn Curtiss was in search of a suitable location for a winter headquarters and asked Hamilton to scout out San Diego for him. He loaned Hamilton his Curtiss No. 2 "Reims Racer" for this purpose. The 1910 San Diego Aviation Meet was scheduled for January 23–25. Charles F. Walsh was guaranteed the first $500 in profits to demonstrate his airplane on the opening day of the meet. Walsh destroyed his airplane during his demonstration on the opening day of the meet when he was forced to taxi his airplane into a fence to avoid hitting Hamilton and the Reims Racer. Two days later, Hamilton took Walsh along for a flight as a passenger in the Reims Racer. This was the first flight for Walsh. Amateur aviation career Imperial Beach, California Following the San Diego Aviation Meet, Walsh built a new airplane in less than 30 days. He was invited by a San Diego developer named E W Peterson to move his airplane to nearby Imperial Beach, California. Peterson had three 30-foot-wide by 600-foot-long runways graded for this purpose. Around April 1,