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Show FANCY AER0PLANIXG AT HARVARD AVIATION FIELD BOSTON, Sept. 11. Fam-y aeroplaning was on the programme at the Harvard aviation field today, with Ralph Johnstone and Walter Brookins as tho star performers. per-formers. Johnstone's favorite act was to indulge in deep slides, shutting his engine nl-mos. nl-mos. completely off. then snddcnlv shooting shoot-ing down until ho almost touched the ground. Then would follow a series of Dutch rolls. Brookins performed the most darinc Teat of the afternoon in making IHh famous fa-mous short turns, standing his liiplane almost on edge as he made a complete circle In scarcely moro lhan six seconds. Ills machine reached an angle of more than ij degrees at times. Glenn II. Curtiss, with a high-power inachln..;. won in a speed race, covering live ,n,i a rjunrtor miles in 0:1!) 3-5 Grahamo White, the Englishman, was out In his Blerlot monoplane and sailed out well over the city and harhor. Tho meet will closr tomorrow, when Glenn TI. Curtiss will race White rive and a quarter miles for a $3000 cup of. terod by the Harvard Aeronautical sod- . W |