Show 4 4 4 4 A I 1 Z n W 4 hundred feet above my creditors hung in space twixt heaven and earth at peace V with god and the world and yet traveling at the rate of 0 sixty or more miles an hour what I 1 felt on my first I 1 aeroplane trip and mighty sorry was I 1 to have to come back to earth writes irene vandy in the new york press there is nothing in the world quite like flying some have compared it pith sailing water sailing others have comp alwi it with autoine on a very smooth road but it t h incomparable once or twice during my trip I 1 looked aloft almost expecting to find the big white winged mechanical bird hung from a wire attached to gigantic telegraph poles and operated on a pulley so BO easy did it ride on space once or twice the machine rocked a hit bit and the sensation was delightful until the fie ma chine rocks one can scarcely believe it Is moving no matter what ane rate of speed once we got lost in a cloud I 1 and my aviator but I 1 never knew it I 1 could still look down and realize tl blat at the world Is round tor for if there la is any vantage point from which to P giove piove ove the roundness round nees of the earth it is in an aeroplane provided you are high enough why 1 tried to explain 1 I never kner how bow small the world was before for it seer seeded led all stretched below me like toy farms where one could pick up the houses in ones hand and play with them but the rush of wind caught the words and I 1 thought I 1 should never again get my mouth closed when there was a slight dip on one wing and the machine turned in another direction we were now passing over the belmont racetrack and the hurdles showed plainly below like so many matches or maybe toothpicks painted white the grandstand was no bigger than a copy of some popular novel I 1 wished there had been some activity it would have been interesting to iee see those tiny horses but I 1 was to be rewarded for my love of the horse As AB we passed over westbury bury they were having baving a practice game on the polo field I 1 looked down and saw the midget be astles rating racing lither and thither with momentary gleams of a mallet raised in the air like a splinter I 1 saw a train pull into the hempstead station a train no bigger th than in those olie one buys for baby on the street five cents the train I 1 saw the garden city hotel hetel st pauls school the salisbury golf links with men and women moving about like tiny china dolls the buildings no bigger than toy blocks that a baby could handle imagine the glory of all this under a perfect sky and a setting sun reflecting that peculiar radiance of scintillating lights on a background of greens and browns with here and there a red root roof blending into the whole and trees you wanted to pick tor for a somehow it never occurred to me to be afraid an utter relaxation came over me and I 1 gave my belf up to the thrill ot of the beauty all round me it seemed as though upon leaving terra firma farma my last worry had vanished I 1 wished I 1 might spend my summer vacation in the air but then I 1 had absolute confidence in the ability of my aviator absolute confidence in the stability of his acro aeroplane plane which I 1 suppose Is halt half the game the flight was from the hempstead plains aviation field which by the way never had the right to the name because it lies in garden city and not in hempstead at all it Is really old camp black of 0 spanish american war tame fame and is as large as central park the usual a flight Is once round the field a distance it if about four miles and takes about as many min A 4 MOM M V A A newl 15 utes at a height of feet however the aviator does not really care about flying so low and it if you show no sign ot of tear fear you are liable to go higher and there is less danger for it is harder to shut off the engine and down from a height of a few hundred feet than it Is from a height ot of a thousand feet and not vol down means sometimes landing with a thump the 1000 foot and easy landing Is one of the tests the aero club requires before granting a license my trip was with mr albert heinrich ot of the heinrich aeroplane company who owns one ot of the lightest and prettiest craft afloat a monoplane of about six hundred and fifty pounds with a very narrow graceful fu silage lage laced up the center dainty and attractive to women especially he finished second last july in the race round new york and has never had a tall fall since the days when he was learning to fly that Is perhaps the reason I 1 lost all sense ot of tear fear I 1 could readily realize the fascination of flying to women and once in the air myself the desire to learn to fly an aeroplane all but conquered me but the monoplane had tipped its nose and we were vol down the tip I 1 scarcely felt but when I 1 realized the engine had been shut off and we were coming down riding on air at an angle of more than forty five degrees it sort ot of caught my breath but we landed easy as a bird without so much as a bump and then tor for the first time since the flight began I 1 felt like a hero how did it feel you feel a sort ot of all here placing their hands bands on the spot where stomachs ought to be you afraid when yau you got la in the cloud could you see aee usa us these were a few of the questions fired at me from the rapid fire gun ot of my bundle ot of friends but the beauty the absolute peace of it all was upon me how long was I 1 up I 1 replied ignoring their questions just twenty three minutes they answered and I 1 looked my amazement tor for it seemed but five at the most I 1 no said 1 to all their questions except the one as to how does it feel and to that I 1 gave the same answer that colonel vanderbilt anne morgan mrs charles whitman mrs W K X vanderbilt jr mrs clifford B harmon and a host of others who have flown have given 1 I never enjoyed anything more in my life andl andi was not surprised as I 1 used to be that women had bad gone into the game but why you will ask it if this Is so have the women who flew dropped out one by one till today there Is but one of the trio who used to appear at international meets left flying mlle mile helen dutrieux Du trieu a french woman there are several reasons one is that the day ot of aviation as an exhibition is over unless one can cater to a morbid public the aviator who today can fly upside down and inside out who can loop loops who can tango and hesitate in the air balancing first on one wing then on the other and keeping the audience in momentary expectancy of seeing him smashed to death amid a wreckage of engine aires i v ires wood and canvas is the man who draws from war to aeronautics there Is but one hero in the public eye he or she nho defies death and comes out alive tho the days of darius green and his flying machine and flying over the celebration to astonish creation are over down on long island where the ground Is flat and flying is comparatively sate safe if i one knows how the buzz of the aeroplane Is as familiar as the buzz ot of the mosquito over in jersey women are naturally more cautious than men A man may imay do and dare before he knows how to do and dare but if a woman does and dares you may be pretty sure he knows what she is doing and daring of course always with the exception which proves the rule now that straight flying is no longer interesting because it is comparatively safe women will not go into the trick flying therefore there is no commercial market for them the only thing left is aerial navigation and necessarily passenger carrying few women will carry passengers at the moment ube only passenger carrying woman in america just at present is ruth law now in newport who owns and operates a wright biplane perhaps women place a higher value on life than men and will run no risks but more probable Is the effect of the tragic death of miss harriet quimby killed in flight two years ago since then miss matilda colsant Mol sant one of the trip who was always on oil hand at international meets with miss quimby and mile dutrieux Du trieu has dropped out the baroness de la Is roche the first woman in the world to fly has also dropped out but possibly because she broke both legs in a tall fall another reason why women have dropped out of the game or given up momentarily is thit that the expense expense of buying and maintaining an aeroplane Is too great since the circus days of ordinary stunts have culled their death roll and are over there Is not sufficient thrill in the mere fact of a woman flying to draw and managers will not put up the funds tor for a machine and still another reason is that men the aviators themselves vea do not like to see women risk their lives in the game despite all this however there Is today a dear little woman pretty as a picture who has entered the game and intends to win she Is afro marlon marion sims a widow and a pupil of mr heinrich sho she has declared her intention of being ready next may to fly at the panama pacific exposition in california and afterward to take a trip in a flying machine round the world she became interested te in aeronautics about a year ago and could not rest till she had learned how to fly though to date she has not taken her pilots license |