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Show - I I ;! Wright and Curtiss Birdmen Ready for Record Breaking Meet B : With nine aeroplanes en route by express to Bjr Salt Lake, Brookins and Parmalee are expected B ; here by nightfall today, and Ely and Willard on the B ' Overland headed Zionwards, the International Av- B , iation Carnival to be held at Bonneville Park, this B side of Saltair, for five days, beginning next Wed- B nesday afternoon, will open with as splendid a B galaxy of fliers and air craft on the ground as B have graced any aeronautical exhibition of the B past year in the west. B ' ' In the past few days the importance of the B exhibition has loomed larger and larger until at B , the present writing there is every indication that B ! ' Brookins, Parmalee, Ely and Willard will, before B ' they finish their flights on April 10th, have brok- B ( en at least a record or two ana furnished the B I crowds with a series of biplane maneuvers second B to those Nof no other meet in which they have B participated. B It is almost superfluous to comment extensive- B , ly on any one of the four aviators. The wonderful B driving of all of them is top well known and their B past performances have been exploited so thorough- B ly from one end of the country to the other that B i their names have become synonymous with all B that is daring, sensational, startling and i n teres t- B ing in the driving of biplanes. Brookins is the B man who is depended upon to go after speed and B altitude records; Parmalee will proDably speclal- B ize on war maneuver tests, including the carrying B aloft of actual war bombs filled with explosives, B with which he will attempt to blow up a mlnin- B ture battleship anchored on Great Salt Lake; Bj Willard returns to town with a new Gnome motor B on his Curtiss Machine that is by far the most B powerful engine he has ever driven and bne that B he states will carry him higher and faster than B any other of the three aviators who will be seen B here can go; Ely is expected to duplicate his ex cellent flights of other meets; and from the fact that the four aviators will have nine aeroplanes at their command and a big corps of mechanicians, mechani-cians, there can be absolutely no question of the international meet at Bonneville park culminating culminat-ing in as splendid a spectacle as will be afforded the people of the intermountain country in many years. Every possible arrangement has been perfected perfec-ted at the flying field for the comfort and convenience conven-ience of spectators. The field itself lies about three and a half blocks east of Saltair pavilion on the beach of Great Salt Lake, parallel to the Saltair railroad tracks, facing out over the Lake. The field is an almost level bed of hard shale, affording splendid facilities for the starting and landing of the aeroplanes, and at the same time giving spectators the benefit of a dry park from which those who do not care to avail themselves of the grandstand may watch the flights. A general gen-eral admission of a dollar per person will be charged that will include transportation to and from the field. Grandstand seats will be twenty-five twenty-five cents extra. The train schedule will permit per-mit of a train leaving the Saltair depot for the aviation field every ten minutes, beginning at one o'clock each afternoon of the meet and the same schedule will be maintained in returning the crowds to town. A road has been constructed from the Salt works to the aviation field, so that motor parties may reach the scene of the flights by taking State street to Fourteenth South, thence west to the Redwood road, thence out the Garfield road to the point where it turns into the road to the Salt works, and from the latter point direct to the aviation av-iation field. Bridges have been constructed wherever wher-ever necessary and arrangements perfected for parking the automobiles at the west end of the big grandstand. The program for each afternoon will consist of match races between the four aviators, altitude trials, speed and cross-country flights, endurance flights; and as features of the meet, Parmalee will attempt tho destruction of a model battleship anchored a mile or so out in the lake by dropping drop-ping explosives from his plane upon it, and Ely will attempt to fly from the field to a large raft anchored in the lake and return to the field. Every effort is being made to secure the latest Curtiss invention, the hydroplane, for the contest, and if these arrangements are successful, Salt Lakers and their visitors will see during tho coming week this craft in action for the first time at a public exhibition. It is the aeroplane in which Glen Curtiss has started from the water of San Diego bay and alighted safely after his flight. . So far its use has been confined to private exhibitions exhibi-tions by Mr. Curtiss. Altogether, the meet which opens next Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon, will be the biggest thing of its kind in twelve western states this year, and it is almost unnecessary to urge Salt Lakers to attend. Willard and Ely gave us a taste of some real flying fly-ing several weeks ago and the thrills are lingering linger-ing still. With these two and Brookins and Parmalee Par-malee chasing each other through the air lanes over the lake the coming week, the promoters will probably, estimating conservatively, have to handle a crowd that will range anywhere from ten to twenty-flve thousand people every afternoon after-noon and without a doubt in the world, the throngs will witness one of the greatest series of biplane flights ever arranged in any city of Salt Lake's altitude. |
