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Show AEROPLANE Will Be Tried by an Aero Club on the Pacific Coast Springfield. Mass., Nov. 21. An unique uni-que experiment In near-aeroplanlng is to be tried in the Berkshire hills t.his winter under tho auspices of the Williams Wil-liams College Aero club and the Berkshire Berk-shire Aero club. Several tj plcal biplanes bi-planes wltheQit engines arc to bo eon-strupcted eon-strupcted with lobsleds at tholr base. These aeroplane- sledR will be taken to tho tops of some of the l.ng hills. In charge of expert coasters and as soon ns th" sled.- Tnch a speed of forty or fifty miles au hour the elc-vator elc-vator planes will re lilted and the sl'-d will leave the ground. Then by manipulating the pianos the sled can be kept a few feet alrove the snow, just skimming tho ground until the bottom of the hill Is reached. In this way, It Is believed, that a phenomenal phenome-nal speed can be male.. I |