Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-27
FLYING SCIENCE
To Be STUDIED
PURPOSE TO PROMOTE NAVl-
CATION OF SKY
FIRST IN THE UNITED STATES
WordIn Tromby, Inventor and Builder
Of the Bullet, Is Elected Tenn
porary President Of the
Association
FIRST IN THE UNITED STATES

United States to have an association
for the promotion of aerial navigation.
The organization bears the name of the
Southern California Aerial Navigation
club, and came into existence last night
with charter membership Of twenty
five persons. Only a temporary Or
ganization, with Wordin Trombly, in
ventor and builder of the Bullet, as
president has been perfected, but an
other meeting will be held some time
next week at which time the election
Vof other officers will take place.
The object of the club is said to be
desire to promote the science OF flying,
and particularly to give aid to the An
gelenos who are seeking to work out
their own ideas as to the form of the
successful aerial craft.
Business men of the city and nearby
towns will be asked to take out a
membership card in the new organiz-
alton and support the scheme to make
Los Angeles the center for the exhi-
bitions which are now promised. All In
all the aim is to make Los Angeles for
the United States what Paris is to
Europe in aerial navigation.
Climate Great Aid
Los Angeles, it is admitted, holds
. out more perfect atmospheric condi-
n tions for experiments in the new
science than any city in the country.
Its climate is perfect throughout the
year and the winds, with few
exceptions, are not of sufficient strength
to menace the navigators of the air.
Whether or not the new club is sue
the coming winter will send most of
the prominent aerialists, now before
the American public, to Los Angeles.
In addition to the conditions which
make possible a flight during almost
any day of the year, the aerial navi-
Agators are ready to admit that the
financial end, which they refuse to lose
sight of, is entirely satisfactory. At
the first flight Of Baldwins airship
from the Chutes last winter the park
was not able to accommodate the
crowds, and the management pocketed
over S170O. The following flights made
by Knabenshue were not less patron
lied.
Knabenshue will probably be seen
again in Los Angeles during the COM
ing winter with his new ship, for which
he claims much higher state of per-
fection than the Arrow which he ma
neuvered under Baldwins agency.
At the close of the Portland expo
sition, Baldwin is also expected to take
up his winter headquarters here, and
he is now negotiating for the rental Of
the aerodrome at Chutes park.
Building "city of Paris"
Charles la Brue, representing the
French Aero Manufacturing company
of Paris has possession Of the big barn
like structure at the present time. and
with an assistant, whom he brought
with him from st. Louis, is busily en-
gagged in the reconstruction of his "City
Of Paris
1t is probable that the Chutes will be
the scene of the flying contest of Sep
tember in which there are now five
entries. Just. how the park is to ac-
comodate the large crowd which is ex-
pected and the airships all at the same
time is a question which has not been
fully decided. Long Beach would like
to have the novel contest take place
within it's city limits but the atmos-
pheric conditions are not as satisfac-
tory as farther inland, and besides the
aeronauts have not had to dodge large
punches of money which they expected
the seaside resort and the Pacific Elec-
trio company to throw at them.
La Brue expects to have his ship
ready for fight three or four days be-
fore the contest, in which event he has
signihed his determination to take a
spin over the business portion of the
city and put Knabenshue's sensational
maneuverings of last winter far into
the background.
Trombly is saying little but saving
wood. He has high hopes as to the
capabilities of his airship Bullet. but
asserts he has the plans for a new ship
which If he can procure the necessary
financial backing to construct it will
far surpass his first effort.
Built Own Ship
Trombly made the plans and con-
structed the Bullet almost entirely
with his own hands. from the making
of the frame to the construction of the
gas bag. His designs for the new ship
call for a machine with gas bag
eighty-five feet long and twenty-four
feet through at its largest diameter.
this to be entirely constructed OF Jap
anese silk The frame is triangular in
shape. having a base of sixtyfive feet
and an altitude Of three feet nine inches.
The machine is to be driven by two
propeners geared to twenty-four-
horse power. double opposed cylinder
gasoline engine, which TrombIy says
will not weigh more than 110 pounds.
Alva Reynolds, with his Man Angel,
hut one ats.kk o.,f OP n