Show The RARE SPORT of CATCHING BIRDS With AIRPLANES i HE acci accidental catching recently of an eagle easte T THE I in the wire bracing ot or a a. military airplane suggests the many possibilities of or the new newport sport port of or hunting huntin for Cor birds of or prey r y and wild fowl fowlIn In the air with flying machines The success of ot this new sport depends upon the airmans knowledge of the speed of vari various us birds Prof II H. H H. H Clayton of DC Blue Hill Observatory saw aw wild ducks flying at a height of ot 9 S feet He was at the time engaged in measuring the heigh height and aud velocity of clouds clous and was able to estimate the speed of or the time birds as nearly IS 8 mU miles s an hour Profs J J. J Stebbins and F. F A A. A Fath made careful observations with the telescope and null found that birds birda pass at al rates varying from SO to tulles miles per Jer hour bour an and these were cre minimums Heavy bomb- bomb dropping airplanes el travel at the time rate of 90 miles an m hour and fast fighters at nearly miles Prof Prot Claytons Clayton's ducks were cre poor airplanes as flying Hying speeds go Is it strange then that oven a fast bird should be overtaken in its flight ht by a a. still sUll faster machine and killed in an aim aerial rear-end rear collision 7 Aviators say sar that it Is a wonder that birds are not more often orten overtaken en as was tho the eagle cagle which was caught in a military militar flying machine With Its wide expanse of or superposed wings crossed cries with wires stay a biplane Is not unlike a aery very ery wide wide net That being the case casc writes Carl DIenstbach In ii Popular Science Monthly wh why should it not bo be possible to trail fine wire piano nets spread b by small kite buoys between bet two airplanes connected t by a long lont g wire and enmesh the con condors ors and eagles that soar over oyer Inaccessible mountain peaks That ought to be a fascinating sport Great birds of or prey lre are fl fighting hUng creatures found that out some years ago when he flew across the P Pr r- r attacked by eagles nees He was actually and had to shoot them with a pistol The sport is 15 all the more possible when it Is considered how dependable Is the modern flying fast machine Chavez the first man who ever er flew across the Alps was 1 killed in some unknown r manne-r manner as he lIe descended into Italy But the modern flyIng fly fly- in Ing machine is more powerfully more dependable motor than and has a the airplane In in which Chavez made his r fatal flight Witness Witness Wit Wit- It ness lleS the many maDY performances of ot Austrian and Italian aviators a In flying over o tho the dizzy peaks of or the Austrian battlegrounds f Nets wets OI of s enee shows that Piano Wire an eagle regards g S Spread P c read d b by y Kite an airplane Buoys B Between tween much as a dog an automobile automobile- Two Airplanes something not to tobe Contacted Connected by be frightened at but to be chal- chal chala chata a Long Wire E Enmesh h Thi Think n I. I t too 00 0 of r the possibilities the Flying t of nr capturing with witha Birds a net who whole Ie flocks of ot game same ducks and geese as well as wild pigeons Even the use uso of or hook line and bait as well as J of the net appears feasible teas teas- ble bee in the air f fI I V SI SI S i I I I o oa 4 a 1 I I fi Iiii L J |