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Show i PLANECDHTESTS ! Latter Has Two Light Ma- ) ' chine Pitted AgainstNine j Heary Fliers at Meet in Selfridge Field, Michigan I MAIL SERVICE TO GIVE EXHIBITION j Hoodoo of Friday the Thir-j Thir-j teenth If Not Feared by , Aria tors; Onrille Wright Is One of the Spectator ! j . MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich.. Oct. II j (By A. P.) The second day of the na-! na-! tlonal air race t ftelfrldge field iv spectators their first opportunity to witness the flight of the new speed creations of the army and navy, eleven of . which were entered In the Liberty I engine bulldere trophy race. Two ' Uxt narz machluea wara pUlad I swalnst Mine heary planet carrying the j honor of the army. This waa the only race on today'a j proa-ram, but thrllle aplenty were In I proapect In other events, which Includ- ed a try for a new world's speed rec-i rec-i ord by asversl machines built rape-t rape-t dally for this meet. A spectacular feature waa an exhlhl- tion hy the entire first pursuit ffroup, : rerularly atatloned at Belfrtrtae field. . The doaen or more mall planes, hera for the races, also were scheduled for A formetlon fltaht. Interspersed with the air eahlhltlofie were addressee on the development and lOTselhtllilee of aviation by flerretarv of the Navy Kdwln Ikenby and Major Oeneral Msson af. 1'alrlrk. chief of the army aMr service. HOODOO NOT PEAREO. Triday the thirteenth." the bane of he superstitious, apparently had no terrors for the US pilots here. Dread of that date haa paesed for the service men. accordln to Major Carl Hpats, eommandlna; officer at Selfrldue field, who recalled instances at air stations In Franc during the war and then pointed to the feverish bustle about the banears where pilots and mechanics were preparing machines for their dar. In rushes throuh the air. Pilota of the hue army bombera wiada a discovery In yeeterday'e race for multlmotored planea which they declare de-clare may prove of great value. As the g planea aklmmed over Lake Bt. Clair, almost touching the surfaca of the water with their undercarriage, ther encountered a new air denelty, an air cushion, whlth manually Increased their speed. ' DISCOVERY ACCIDENTAL. The discovery was msde sw accident the planes having been forced to a low altitude by m hailstorm Of such intensity in-tensity that paint was scraped from the marhlnee. One of the most Interested epecta-tora epecta-tora at the national meet waa orvllle "Wright, who. with his brother Wilbur, made the first flight at Kitty Hawk. N. C, la leoa. Mr. Wright, watching the powerful machlnee of today In sustained sus-tained rights at 100 miles an hour, apoke of the pioneering daya and the 1 1-horsepower motor with which he waa able to remain aloft for twelve seeonde nearly twenty years ago. Ha did not expect then, he ssld to see aviation meets deveUied to their present magnitude, nor did he dream of such speed ee le now attained. Thie year's meet, Mr. Wright said, marked the greatest advance since ths beginning begin-ning of aeronautics! development and the next few years, he propheeled. would eea aviation established as a commercial as well as a military agency. - |