The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-19
WRICHTS STUDENTS FLY
SIGNAL CORPS OFFICERS CONTROL
 AEROPLANE.
Lieutenants Lahm and Humphxsys, With Instructor at sfde, Guide Flying Machine Over College
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With HnatkUGt0E &G S10ob Guf80
 Flying Machine Over College
 Park Course.
 College Park, Md. Oct. ls--In six training flights at the government avia. tion school under the direction of In- structor Wright. / the army officers Lieutenants Lahm and Humphrey demonstrated their ability to handle the governments aeroplane purchased from the Wright brothers during the past summer by the signal corps. Each officer accompanied MT. Wright on three flights.
 Although the sky was overcast for most of the day, and showers occa- sionally sprinkled the aviation field. theanemometer registered practically no wind. Before the sun had risen in the east the aeroplane was rolled from It's shed and Mir. Wright and Lieu- tenant Humphrey made night of elev- en minutes duration. The second flight with Lieutenant Lahm on the pupils seat was the longest that has been made at the signal corps aerodrome, lasting eighteen minutes anS thirty. seven seconds. In both flights, Mir. Wright pitted the lieutenant to oper. ate the machine unaided.
 The third uight was made in slight breeze, Lieutenant Humphrey again accompanying Mir. Wright. The ma chine was in the air for over ten minutes. MT. Wright, accompanied by Lieutenant Lahm, then uew for eleven minutes and thirty-four seconds. While the machine was encircling the field, it was pitched and tossed by a ten. mile wind.
 In the evening, Mir. Wright was ae- eompanied on the first fright by Lieu tenant Humphrey, who handled the ma- chine unaided throuhg nose of the nine minutes and thirty-seven seconds that the aeroplane was kept aloft.
 On the last flight of the day. Mir. Wright had Lieutenant Lailm with him for more than eight mindtes. As the machine sped around the field, Mir. wright could be seen to take his hands off the testers and allow his pupil to guide the craft. He held himself in readiness to take hold of the craft at any moment and when a sudden gust of wind of unusual force would strike the machine, the instructor would grab the levers and bring the machine back to an even keel.
 While flying about the aerodrome with Lieutenant Lahm and MT. Wright, the aeroplane came abreast of swift ly moving express train. So close was the machine of the air to its rival on the earth that 1t appeared to be right above it. The disturbance of the air created by the speed of the train, seemed to affect the aerUplane. which swept down dangerously close to the earth. As the wind caught 1t and aided it onward, 1t seemed to gain upon the return.
 Longer flights and more dinioult ma noeuvers are to be attempted by the aviation class at the government aero drome. Lieutenant Benjamin D. Fou- 10 is the young signal corps oficer who made the famous Alexandria cross- country flight with OrrVille Wright returned today from Nancy, France, where he had been as the representa- tive of the United States at the Aero nautical Congress. He will report at College Park tomorrow. If is prob- able that he will be added to the list of students of aviation.