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Show EXPERIMENTS WITH j THE AIR CURRENTS I LOS A XG EL ICS. Feb. H. Intci.csting experiments with air currents of southern. south-ern. California wore conducted here today to-day with the two. big Ferris racing bnl-Ioons, bnl-Ioons, the United States and the America Amer-ica which ascended at Chutes park at :t o'clock, one of them carrying a party of four people, including United States Assistant Weather Forecaster W. B. Fuller Ful-ler and Captain Mueller, and the other three. Including Paul Cowles of San Francisco and Roy Knabenshue, the well-known well-known aeronaut. Both of tho big bags, ascending at almost t lie same "time, struck a strong current of air. which carried them rapidly rapid-ly to the southeast, where thev disappeared disap-peared from view about 5 o'clock. The last word received from them was as thev were passing over the vicinity of Santa Ana. Here they appeared to strike a land breeze, which was carrying them eastward. It was not the intention to make a lengthy flight, but merely to experiment ex-periment with the air currents and observe ob-serve atmospheric conditions. The dav was Ideal for the trials. |