Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I haere hoki a Parmelee ki Texas i te puna o te tau 1911, i rere ai ia i te Wright Flyer me Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois. I whakahaerehia e te tokorua nga misioni mataaratanga hōia tuatahi, e rere ana i te rohe me Mexico i nga mahi i whakahaerehia e te ope taua o Amerika hei whakaaturanga kaha ki te
He hunga whakakeke Mekemeke. Kāore te waka rererangi i te mana o te US Army, kāhore hoki te waka rererangi i whakawhirinakihia, i nga teina Wright ranei, engari i riihihia mai i a Robert J. Collier, rangatira o "Collier's Weekly". I to rātau rerenga tuarua, ka whakamutua e Foulois rāua ko Parmelee te pūkaha. I te teitei iti rawa i runga i te Rio Grande, ka whakaara anō a Parmelee i te pūkaha, engari me te tere tonu. Na te nekehanga ohorere i hinga ai te waka rererangi ki raro ki te wai, a, ka huri ki runga ki tona tihi. Kaore tetahi o nga paerata i whara, ka whakaorangia te rererangi ka whakatikahia. I muri mai i te tau 1911, ko Parmelee te paerata o te Wright Model B i te wa i peke atu ai te 54-tau-tawhito a Grant Morton i runga i Venice Beach, California. Koinei te peke tuatahi e mōhiotia ana e te tangata mai i te waka rererangi mā te whakamahi i te paraihe.