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Show LINCOLN BEACH FY TAKES THE HONORS LOS ANGELT36, Jan. 27. Idncoln Eeachc:.-. the crack flyer of the Curtlss camp, took the honors at today's aviation avia-tion meet. in a Wind so ?lrons: thai many of the nvitors refused to go up, he gave the spectators a. -reat exhibition exhibi-tion of .i.irir.--. rneldentalb-'. he furnished s surprise for Miss Blanche C. Scott, one of the women aviators, by making ids first flight garbed bs womap, bis pur-pou pur-pou being to make Miss Scott believe that she had a rival. A Ihliiv-flve-mllo wind swept the aviation avia-tion field tsmen Beachey, who had announced an-nounced that a nev -ul a'.iator would appear, senl his crafl rounding "death nirvi" ;it sixty miles an hour and not nnre than twenty-live feet from the ground. Despite the gale, Beachey, as a windup to tbe day's event.-, climbed 5600 fc I iii the iir. shut off his DOOtOr and volplaned to the ground making a. beau-litnl beau-litnl landing Al the iim he came down the aerometer Indicated s wind velocity of forty-twp miles an hour. |