Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-30
AERONAUTIC NOTES

Horace B. Wild recently made sue
cessful dirigible flight over Terre
Haute, Ind.
The test suit of the Wright brothers
against the Herring-Curtiss interests is
mainly based on the claim of patent
control of flexible tips which have so
far been a feature of every diplane
manufactured. This claim includes not
only warping the planes, but the use
of wing tips of any description, and If
successfully carried through the courts
it will have the effect of giving the
Wrights a monopoly on biplane con-
struction along present approved lines.
The Air Craft club of Peoria has Of
ficially decided that the balloon race
from that city, in which three balloons
were entered, was won by II. e.
Honeywell of st. Louis in the $4,000
cubic foot balloon Peoria, who landed
go miles away at Dixon, Mo-, after
seventeen hours in the air.
A feature of the military maneuvers
recently conducted in Massachusetts
was the war reporting from the Bos-
ton Travellers balloon, which at one
time hung over the battlefield in a
calm.
A race in which a thousand yachts
will attempt to capture balloon VIII
take place at New York in the second
week of September Leo Stevens will
down in the ocean or inland waters
according to the direction taken, and
yachts will be watching along the
coast and in the inner waters. The
first yachtsman to pass his cord to
Pilot Stevens will be the prize winner.
e H. r. Green, who is in the market
for an aeroplane, is planning to or
ganize an aero club at Dallas, Tex.
An airship shed is being built at
Nestre. five miles northwest of Venice
for the new Italian military dirigible
which has been making successful
flights at Braccianto.
Delagrange is figuring on hylne
across the English channel in a Wright
aerODlane.
Through the cooperation of the
Australian minister of defense and the
Australian Aerial league a fund OF
$50 900 is available for the builder OF
the first Australian-ma aeroplane
suitable for military defense.
The president of France has given
his patronage to the Aviation Salon
which will be opened in the Grand
Palais at Paris next month.
LYMAN Gilmore of Auburn. Cal, has
interested capital in that city in the
construction of a triplane with which
he is reported to have made success
full flights. o.-.,--
The capacity of the Herring-Curtiss
aeroplane factory at HaInllonusPoll T.
n. Y. is being doubled. A. NJ. Her
ring says the company has 12O men
working on aeroplanes alone, and the
factory is run night and day.
General Allen, chief signal ofhcer' Is
planning to issue new specifications
calling for a heavier-than-air machine
- Aeronautics says: "It is curious tc
note the aeroplanes cropping up all
over the country, in backyards, wood
sheds. barns and outhouses. Nearly
every boy in the country Is building a
glider, and the books telling how TO
make them, published by Aeronautlcs,
are nearly exhausted already Almost
every large city has its embryonic
The large Langley flying machine
tie Buzzard, will soon be placed on
exhibition for the first time since thG,
death of Professor Langley 1t Will
make the start toward an extremely
valuable collection of flying material.
The highest officially recorded bal
loon ascension in America is that MADE
in 1887, from st. Louis, by the late
prof. r. A. Hazen OF the United states
signal service, who, with three com
panions. reached an altitude of l5'4OO
feet