Show AEROPLANE 81 STARTS ARTS fROM AND ALIGHTS ON WATERS SIM ACE Hydroplanes Support Machine Machine Machine Ma Ma- chine and Turn Easily as Motor Boat SAP BAN DIEGO Cal CAt Jan 27 For For the tho 1 first time it was d declared lared in the history of aviation an aeroplane rose from the surface of the water yesterday yesterday yester yester- day sailed about and returning to the starting point landed on tho the water as easi easily y as a gull 11 This feat was Ras achieved by hy Glenn H. H Curtiss in his specially equipped aeroplane aero plane piano on San Diego ba hay bay The machine machine ma ma- chine covered a a. distance of about two miles and the flight fight was made aft after r about two weeks of experimenting to rise dovis B special appliances appliance to float the mad machine n and allo allow it to attain a 8 hi high h speed on tho the surface of the water before before be be- fore fare lifting Both the army army- and the navy were represented at th these experiments on North island the former by Lieutenant John C. C Walker Jr and the latt latter r by Lieutenant T T. T G. G Ellyson both specially detailed b by their departments to learn aviation When the aeroplane was brou brought bt out at n noon oon and floated on the shallow shallow- water water wa wa- ter between Coronado and North island it was vas equipped with mth hydroplanes lanes and anda a a. new arrangement ement of front sur faces Curtiss climbed clinked into the seat and started the powerful motor The aeroplane scudded up the bay bayat bayat bayat at a 8 mile forty clip for a quarter of a 8 mite mile then lifted out of tho the wa water ter and rose to a 8 height of fifty feet Curtiss Curtiss Cur Cur- brou brought ht it down on the surface casil easily after flying a half mile and turned around as easily as as a motorboat motor- motor boat 1 Putting Patting on his full lull power he be again rose roe this time Ume to a height of a hundred feet sailed tailed out ont over the tho bay a a. milo mile from tho starting place circled around near the revenue re cutter B Bear ar and the repair ship Iris and landed l lightly on the water in front of his hangar on shore I have bare succeeded in in solvin solving theone tho the one problem tho the secretary of the navy re regarded as is the most difficult and the theone theone theone one necessary to mako make the aeroplane of value to the navy J said Curtiss ashe as ashe ashe he stepped ashore I I can now start an aeroplane from the tho theater water ater alongside a warship mako make my trip and return return- returning ing ina light alongside and be he hoisted aboard This I believe is is of great reat importance importance im im- im to the navy Lieutenant Walker of or the army reported reported re reo re- re ported to Curtiss on orders from from Gen pral anal Bliss BliES nt at San Francisco o. and Paul Beck will report on Saturday Tho rho instructing of ot the two army officers and Lieutenant Ell Ellyson of tho the na navy will begin on North is island and Monday fonda fonda- |