Weekly journal-miner., 1909-12-29
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 With the first aviation week ever in.
 augurated in America only a few
 weeks of, and with several of the
 great professional aeronauts already
 on the ground, fOmenting the en-
 thusiasm, is in any wonder that the
 people of this city are ''way up in
 the air, most of the time,'' so to
 speak9
 Aviation has taken a frmer and
 larger hold on the people of the
 Southwest than any other thing of
 the kind has ever taken, not except ing the famous "festas" held in this city in former years, and in all of the hotel Hobbies, and the other places where people gather, about all of the conversation to be heard is so punctured with such expressions as aeronauts," dirigibles,'' "front control" automatic stability" and the like, that the ordinary person has difficulty in understanding what it is all about.
 Between January 10 and 20 of next year, there will be attracted to Los Angeles, it is estimated, more than 100000 visitors, and they will come to see something that has never been attempted before-actual races be- tween airships.
 The aviation meeting in Los An geles has been so planned and ar have been so made, that it will be possible for the aviators to make here the first practical tests of the value of airships in time of war. These tests will be made at San Pedro harbor, and at night. The navy will be represented by two of Uncle Sam's torpedo boat destroyers and the revenue cutter Perry, and while these fighting ships of the sea are maneuvering off the entrance to the harbor, under cover of darkness, just as the ships of a hostile fleet might do if a war was on, the in- trepid air sailors will silently steal l away from some secluded spot on the | shore, and attempt to fly unobserved 1, over the ships, and drop on their lecks dummy bombs, technically de- 'trOying the ships.
 And there is another proposition hat the aviation week in Los An yeles is going to demonstrate, and hat is whether the airships of the future is going to be the "heavier- han-air" machines of the Wrights md Glen Curtiss and Farnam and 'aulhan,' or the "dirigibles" of 'ount Zeppelin, and Knabenshue and 4eo Stevens and the others.
 There is fierce rivalry between the viators just now, and they have oyously welcomed this Los Angeles meeting foF one thing because it will fford the opportunity they have cen hoping for to make the su- rene test. The gas bags, as well s the gliders, are to be given a rominent place in the Los Angeles vents. Knabenshue and Willard nd Heachey, three of the greatest ir sailors of the day, who are al- eady in Los Angeles with their nu- lerous machines of all types, can ak of little else but this test. That the big thing with them. The act that they are going to take part n the first aviation meeting in -merica does not enthuse them like he thought that they are going to what the dirigible can O.
 For two years the magazines and he newspapers have been filed with ictures of airships and descriptions them and stories of the men who ' andle them, until the popular imag- l nation has been set ahame. Nothing { ut aviation meetings in America I i'll Sgtisfv tba paopIa ,or, I