Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-09-13 | Page 8 | Glenn Martin Stars at Aviation Meet

".! 1 GLENN MARTIN STARS i, j : AT AVIATION MEET CHICAGO, Sent. 12. For picturesque - flights and thrilling descents, Glenn H. ' i ; Martin, In a biplane, won tho chief honors In the aviation meet today. The opon-lf opon-lf . ing event of the moot, which Is held this , j year on the prairies west of tho city at 'ij ' Cicero, was a contest for tho best land-Ijil land-Ijil lng at a given spot from an altitude of 10Q0 feet with tho motor stopped, ! Starting from an altitude from which ' ho was stopped from seconding higher I than 1000 foet only by a frantic signal ; ; from the Judges' stand, Martin stopped his motor Just at sunset and In a grace- , fill sweep to the earth landed twenty-nine f feet from the spot marked by a flag not !' much bigger than a handkerchlcr. Other distances made by tho contestants contest-ants were: Max Llllle. second, fifty feet; Delloyd Thompson, elghty-thrco feet; George Mestcch, 106 feet. All flew In biplanes. bi-planes. In dropping Into a "postofflce" from 100 feot while in flight, bags filled with mall, Anthony Jannus, In a Benolst biplane. ' won first prize. He stopped within forty . 1 feet of tho receptacle. Thompson was second, with fifty-one feet, and Martin j third, with elghty-threo feet. Maurice , Prevost of France droppel tho bag so , ' far from the mark his descent was not taken. ; .! Spoed contests were had over a twelve- M . i mile course, but no records were broken.