Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

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I Man Angel II....., Herbert Burke t
i Ascend from Chutes park at i
+ $3.50 o'clock this afternoon. j
{ Course to be thirty miles, IncIud- I
Z ing return to park II air currents 3
+ permit. Contest to be decided on I
+ speed, altitude and general ma 4
4 neuvering.
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Weather conditions permitting. An
geIsnos will be given the opportunity
this afternoon of witnessing the first
airship race ever held in America. The
contestants are Wordin Trombly with
his Bullet" and Alvah Reynolds with
bis Man Angel, number two"
There is many a slip 'twixt the cup
and the lip in aerial navigation, but
it is the intention Of the aeronauts to
leave the earth behind them promptly
at $3.50 a'clock at Chutes park.
Aside from the novelty of the exhibi-
ton, the contest Is doubly interesting
from the fact that both machines are
built along entirely different models
and the theories upon which the in
ventors have worked are widely at
variance.
The course will not be announced
until a few minutes previous to the
flight. 1t will be thirty miles long,
the flyers to return TO the starting
the contest is to be decided are speed.
altitude and general maneuvering. No
judges had been selected at o'clock
last night and it was said by the man
agement that a committee of promi-
nent citizens would be selected this
morning.
Owners Are AngeIenos
1t is a significant fact that both men
are Angelenos. They have worked out
their theories and their machines have
been constructed by their own hands.
Neither Trombly nor Reynolds Is a
professor" Trombly, until eighteen
months ago, was a mechanic who made
his living by conducting a novelty
shop. Reynolds is a carpenter but
gave up his vocation a year ago to
devote his entire time to working out
his scheme of aerial flight.
The Man Angel number two" was
given its initial test last night at
Fiesta park and bore out all the ex-
pectations of its builder. 1t is con-
structed on plans similar to those of
the original Man Angel, but 1t is OF
slightly larger dimensions.
Reynolds original machine has been
sent to Topeka, Kansas, and will make
an ascent today from the state fair
grounds at that point. AS soon as
todays exhibition is ended, the new
machine will be taken to pieces and
sent to Yuma. Arizona, where Burke
will make fight in it tomorrow al
the Mexican Independence day cele.
bration.
Reynolds will give an exhibition ol
low flying at Chutes park this morn.
ing. In this he claims that the MAR
chimes in that 1t is capable of flying
at a distance of ten feet from the
ground.
Aeronaut's Escape
Trombly spent most of Friday might
and yesterday in getting the Bulle
into shape for the trip and in films
the great bag with gas. The race camt
near being indefinitely postponed by ar
accident which happened to him earl!
Friday evening.
He was at work on the hydrogen gas
making machine when, through a de
feet in the cooling apparatus, the ma
chine became overheated. This caused
an overflow of sulphuric acid at higl
temperature.
Trombly was standing near the ven
and received nearly a quart of tn
boiling hot acid on his left thigh. Hi
clothing was burned off his body with
in a few seconds and his thigh ant
leg were severely burned before h
could be given assistance.
The accident will not interfere WITT
the flight and Trombly was almos
as agile as ever yesterday in working
around his machine in the big aero
drome at the Chutes, where It /
quartered.
Charles La Brue, who made claims
many and various, for his "City o
Paris" will not be entered in the con
test. The framework of his ship 1
81 the Chutes but the big gas bag an
Charles La Brue have not been 1
evidence for the past week.
Dimensions of "BuIIet"
Here are the dimensions Of the tw
ships and the claims made for them b
their owners:
The gas bag of Trombly's Bullet
seventy-five feet long and eighteen fet
at its greatest diameter. 1t has
capacity of $4,000 cubic feet of gas. 7
fill it requires five tons of sulphuric aci
and four tons of iron filings costing /
all SITS.
The frame is fifty-nine feet long, wit
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