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Show IEHTHL AVIAIi MEET Day Given Over to Preliminary Pre-liminary Trials and Flights. IKRFUL MANIPULATION IF THE AERIAL CRAFTS an Creates Sensation, and Applauded by 20,000 Spectators. ANGELES. Jan. 10. Making a and dramatic appearance while 00 spectators were watching the 5ht of two dirigible balloons at i park this afternoon. Iouts threw the great throng into a if enthusiasm and excitement by ocular flight in a Farman bl-the bl-the first day of the big aviation ras given over to preliminary id flights to give the aeronauts alors a chance to shake riown chines. Curtiss had given an ox-In ox-In a new and untried machine In " IK later Clifford Harmon mado some i flights. Charles E. Willard. In the j fs No. 1. hud also made a suc-jj suc-jj Jul flight and several times Roy 5 i benshue and Lincoln Bcachy had as-3 as-3 1 kd In two 3mall dirigibles and man-S man-S rcd their craft, but nothing to 3 fl the crowd occurred until Paulhan 31 pt into the game. a!flchv and Knabcnshuc were piloting r dirigibles around the course when lug Frenchman appeared sudden-of sudden-of a gully hidden from the view grandstand, circled the course lines, went out acrons country, ack over the grandstand and I In the center of the field, o later flights he gave a remark-Iilbltlon remark-Iilbltlon of control over his ma-gracefully ma-gracefully making sharp turns, pplng almost to the ground to In frightened lllght a group of gathered on"1 the field, again ig the grandstand only a few ovo Iho heads of the spectators, tig. descending and. finally, np-ug np-ug from the rear tent that houses aplane. Just clearing the top and g within 100 feet of its cn-an cn-an was given a demonstration is seldom witnessed at a public )g In this country. Men shouted ves hoarse, while women ap-and ap-and waved handkerchiefs, and i, elated bv the furor he had denced gaily Into his tent. Flno Weather, lay opened with weather condi-isplelous condi-isplelous for the Initial contest of rd men." The sun shone brightly ire was but the semblance of a from the cast. Before the fore-id fore-id waned however, the sky bc-ereast bc-ereast with clouds and there wns clon of dampness In tho atmos-The atmos-The wind llnally whipped to the lowing strongly an unfavorable n, the aviators said, throng began gathering early, lout the forenoon hours train mln. running on a. five minute . poured in Its addition to the intll long before tlje time schc-or schc-or the ilrst event to be called, clal returns gave CO.000 as tho that had passed through tho a thousand automobiles were In the quarters reserved for ars. While, waiting for the avla-makc avla-makc their appearance, the iniused itself on the plalsanco, or ,. ..-hliig the flight of two halloons Wi :had ascended from Huntington park III city. From ihc rising ground on Ljl A the aviation ramp structures are. ihcd. a splendid view could be had of m Gabriel valley, slretrlilng to the dls- L foothills of the Sierra Madrc. with city of Los Angeles, thirteen miles H if. plainly outline!. fcaiptly at 1 o'clock Glenn II. Curtiss jtf tf upon the starling stretch to open H International meet with a chrlstcn-Bflipht chrlstcn-Bflipht for a new monoplane, that he Minever before used. Leaving the HfllM In front of the grandstand, the Bit rose gracefully with a rise in the w,& to the west, made a short flight le course, returned and alighted at ilartlng point. The distance, cstl-4by cstl-4by the Judges at five-eighths of k.was covered In 2S.0.1 seconds, the 18 1 height reached being fifty feot. rfflachin was under perfect control the 'American was accorded a thun-i thun-i cheers for his feat. Charles F Willard appeared upon norse in his Curtiss monoplane No 1 after a short preliminary flight, allied al-lied to circle the official course. to Is a trlflo more than a mile and" ill In length Rising to a height of uy feet he maintained this altitude I half the distance had been tra-di tra-di when his motor gave 'out and descended, lie was in the air 1 lilt. 23 seconds After readjustment he motor Willard arose again nnd glttcd tho course. "i Curtiss in Flight, irllss. using the machine with which nde tho previous flight, circled the w an estimated distance of one and -flghth miles. In 1.51. J lis maximum Me was 200 feet. wtcoln Beaehy nnd Roy Knabenshue Wtfd upon the eonrsc with their balloons, sailing dlroctlv over jSnfndstand at a height of 200 feet st n stiff breeze and returning at prpcrd with the wind In their backs, dirigibles - fratl-looklng. cigar-shaped gj-s6emed to be under the complete p?y o tho two pilots, who directed Kcuirse as they willed and descended Rrlh without a Jar. Fwe this time Hie crowd had begun gWulrc for Paulhan. All was quiet VPS. OUartnrs of the French aviator. Wiytr work wa:i being done In sRratlnn tn nuki ...l.l.,.t ItflMffl. doors," and Jt seemed probable r'nt throng would be disappointed 'Peflatlon of seeing the holder iK1 rnllo speed record. enn't do anything with that 'aEmian'" 1,1,1(1 Ferris, master of JoniB, "jj payS no attention to MHr i'M regulations, nor to the course ITlBKf f,or 1,10 flights- I wouldn't' be J KCC ,1UU appear suddenly on WW- through tho lop of his hES'uT" a,,rin!5t what Paulhan did. i lAM!? 'M spectators were watching the lr HB i.i! 'n 'JlrlgiblPH. a Farman biplane ' JKIBbY" fiuletlv from the Paulhan tent liKLL10 a Pnll' hidden from tho view '2MrjjS ;'1 tbe starting stretch. .Inst Bn.':?a,'?en8hiie and IJcaehv were pass-jr. pass-jr. "'n grandstand on 'their return K. jy neck was crnned backward, lSmt .fc .a '"'"dden shout and out of the fl Kif. ? Pa,,lln. the motor of his . 'JIKiin. "U'Timlng at a tremendous rate-aBk? rate-aBk? nround the course and came f0Bfi.DvPr5 the grandstand at hich JK.v.H? Kfitlculatcd tlrst with his -JjW -and then his left and at 'Ki 'ti,,?0 11,0 steering wheel and XB,,1" ormn and shouted to the 'iTFte 1,1,3 fu" course once. Paulhan M AflMfcTi i,a ficcond round, but stopped liABiiri ''ay polo lo out across tho JiMfcv?.l5hl ,ror Uw grandstand. Sud-Mllr Sud-Mllr V?i.n(J 110 rteHcrlbcd another clrele, )'S3Vi?iJr.,f)C.arln'' ,rom vlow to the ,lBrV'10d the grandstand. He noarcd l'aSBHrr ,n(f ,,,nt- W(l' m adjacent -JjBli 5P1l11 lieadlng directly for the 5?m&t ftiich 1,0 don red from behind. , tniir . ft frw 'cot above the top-cJirmtyt top-cJirmtyt elHl,e0!ltH al shouting greetings VQiJW W."5'' u' lucUIng crowd bo-jjfPm bo-jjfPm la,8JS out on to the Held, the machine descended In front of Paulhah's quarters. Paulhan Dolivers Goods. Paulhan had remained In the air eight and a half minutes nnd sailed three and a quarter miles. Ills highest altitude was lf0 feet. While the dirigibles were preparing for their second flight, tho Irrepressible Frenchman decided to start upon another anoth-er Jouniey. Covering the full course in -.07 2-5, ho started around again and ucarcd the starting point Just as Knab-enshuo's Knab-enshuo's balloon had caught the wind at the head of the stretch and was coming along at high speed. Panlhan's aeroplane aero-plane shot upward and soon was abreast and directly over tho dirigible. The two craft raced with thJ wind at their backs, that of the Frenchman soon distancing the big gas bag. Continuing his flight at high speed. Paulhan gae a thrilling exhibition of his control of the aeroplane. He darted this way and that, ascended suddenly and shot downward until It seemed that he muet surely wreck his aeroplane against the earth. Where groups of men had gathered on tho field he scattorod them with sudden dips of the machine. Once he headed directly for the grandstand, grand-stand, waiting until almost upon It before be-fore pointing the bow of his craft upward up-ward and skimming just above the heads of the crowd. Throughout It all he gesticulated with his handtt and shouted In a language, understood by his countrymen alone. Paulhan loves the air and seemingly Is carried away by the exhilaration of his erratically daring performances. On this second flight he remained up ten minutes and two seconds, reaching a height, of 400 foci and traveling about four and a half miles. In descending, he Just cleared the top of his own tent from the rear, alighting a short distance dis-tance from the entrance. In his third flight, Paulhan arose directly di-rectly in front of the grandstand, passed over It and turned bnck to tho official course, where ho rose to a height of 300 feet. Covering the mile and a half In 2:5S, he took another shot Into the country, came back, went around the course a sfeond time, and had started on his third lap Just as Beachy. In his dirigible, and Charles IC. Hamilton, in a Curllas monoplane, had made an ascent as-cent nnd got under full headway. Tho French aviator fell In behind Hamilton and acted as a. rear guard for the American Ameri-can until tho latter descended, after a flight of four minutes. Then, after completing com-pleting his third lap, he made a series of graceful turns In the middle of the field and Balled low over tho grandstand again and again. Tho lllght lasted twon-ly-nlno mlnutea and two seconds. Some Special Rocords. In the machine In which ho made the world's speed record of 12:42 miles in 15:052, at Rhelms, Glenn II. Curtiss attempted at-tempted another flight. He rose to a height of twenty feel In 500 yards flight, when his propeller broke and ho was compelled to stop his engine. He sailed gracefully to the ground. The only accident that In any way marred the dny's programme occurred when the engine of the Glll-Dosch machine ma-chine was startcil before the biplane hail been taken from the tent and a flare-back flare-back tore out a portion of the upper plane. Thin accident, prevented the GI1I-Dosch GI1I-Dosch machine from being flown during the day. Tonight Dlek Ferris, manapcr of the events, announced that Louis Paulhan will attempt to break tho world's altitude alti-tude record for lieiivler-than-alr machines ma-chines tomorrow. The atlompt will be made In the Farman biplane In which the daring aviator today thrilled the crowds by his flights over the new field While the flights by the well-known aviators were being made today, several machines of local construction and un--known design were wheeled onto tho flold and paraded before tho spectators. One. a graceful, blrd-llkc thing, mnde a noise that could hardly be distinguished from the. noises made by Iho aeroplanes that sailed, after Its engine was stnrld. but It did not leave the ground, nor even tho Hpot where It rested. Another, a multiplane, built by Prof. J. B Zerbe of this city, brought out great applause on account of its appearance, but not even Its engine would go. |