Stone's plane crashed into Lake Michigan from a height of 1,000 feet on 17 August 1911 at an aviation meet in Chicago.
[1] Stone also toured New Zealand, and flew at Auckland Domain on 19 April 1913, where "The aircraft made a forced landing after 400 yards; it and the pilot were attacked by members of the disgruntled crowd who felt they had not got their money’s worth.
"[2] Stone was in Hamilton on May 12, then on 4 June the monoplane was "written off by a fence on the boundary of Napier's racecourse.
"[1] Arthur Burr (Wizard) Stone was earmarked to carry the first Government official airmail from Melbourne to Sydney on 23 May 1914.
Five days before the scheduled flight, the American barnstormer, while test flying his Metz-Bleriot at Sunshine, Victoria, suffered a mishap and damaged the plane.