OCR Text |
Show WRIGHT DISGUSTED WITH TACTICS OF EUIiOPEAH FLYERS Says Sensational Flights Hart Development of the Art NEW TORE, Aug.- 10. Wilbur Wright oa hi latest tour of Euros has increased his disgust st ths daredevil tactic oCtb European aviators. The ''sensational flights" are harttng the art, he declared oa his arrival here. "They do sot work toward maintaining maintain-ing n healthy interest is aeronautics or hslp ia practical development of ths machine,' he continued. "Take the rarest internatioss) circuit cir-cuit aviatioa race, for example. That waa, in no sense, a test of what the machines ma-chines ar the pilots eould do. It was merely s reckless sporting event in which the men bet their lives against a certain amount of money. It wss a gamble with death. Beaumont, the winner, narrowly escaped being silled. His motor stopped at oae time when be wae ia a position where he eould not have leaded witaout courting almost sure death. By some freak his motor started whoa he was within a few feet of the ground aad saved him from being be-ing dashed to death. He might have had a funeral instead of the $30,000 prixe. "This is the sort of thing to be discouraged. dis-couraged. 6uch eeasatioaar eveata are exploited ta the detriment of the art. What the average maa not the daredevil dare-devil nor the simpleton caa do with aa aeroplane, is the problem we are concern con-cern sd with." - |