Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-04
WRIGHT THRILLS CITY
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was opposite some skyscraper and the
wind would be tumbling down over il.
so l headed over to the Jersey shore
to get away from the skyscrapers as far
as possible l suppose | was 100 feet up
in the air. / could see the Metropolitan
tower, and l was not as high as it is. l
could also see the Jersey meadows over
the palisades.
THE vapors from the warship tunnels
made a little trouble. too. That is,
could feel when l was among them
Made an Awful Noise.
How about Admiral SEYMOUR" asked
some one. Did he fire salute in your
honor as YOU passed over?''
Il don't know what it was they did .
replied the Dayton man. but it was
something that made an awful noise
Continuing the narrative of his ex-
perience aloft. Wright said:
When l caught sight Of Grants tomb
on my right l decided I had gone far
enough. and. turning in a large circle.
1 faced back to the south. l think l
came back in half the time ! used 90
ing up the river against the wind.
Il Rugged the water much closer and
kept farther toward the Jersey shore
as / passed the downtown skyscrap-
erS."
Frank Taylor. Mr. wright's mocha
friends to ask Wright what to do with
the machine.
Mr. Wright turned aside to direct him
to run it into the aerodome and then
announced to the crowd that IL the
weather continued favorable he would
go into the air again. Secretary Ham,
mer Immediately spoke up to announce
that the afternoon flight would be off
cial," which is his way of saying he
would forgery 1t through the signal
system.
The official time for the flight was
given out by Secretary Hammer as 3i
minutes 33 1-5 seconds, and the dis
lance as 10 miles. ek miles each way.
Duty Sergt. William Ray as soon as he
could spare the time from pushing the
distance from the end of the monorail to
the spot where the aeroplape came down
on its return. He found 1t to be twenty
three steps Of official military length.
which Capt. B. H. Wells. being an ex-
pert In such matters, figured out to be
exactly twenty yards.
The island flags fluttered out into a
breeze that was estimated at between
eight and ten miles an hour while the
flight was in progress.
For an hour after daylight this morning
the flags on Governors Island fagpoles
tapped lazily in northern zephyr and 1t
seemed that an ideal day for the island
aviators had at last arrived. Wilbur
shed at $50 o'clock and announced that
he would be ready to go up at $50.
Curtiss Doesn't Venture Up.
tage Of the calm by Glenn II. Curtiss.
who had abandoned his plan to break
camp on Saturday in the hope Of catching
fair breeze by today. Curtiss did not
stay on the island last night and was not
at his aerodrome this morning.
Last night he had appeared at his shed
on the made island extension near Sunset
and taken his machine out in a quiet
breeze for a forty-five second skip above
the made island.
On dropping to the earth after two live
ly tits, one to the left and one to the
right, Curtiss had announced that there
was boiling air aloft, which made 1t dan
gerous for him to stay up.
1t was then his intention to sleep on
the island and to try again this morning.
but later on he changed his plans and
remained at his hotel. His shed was lock-
ed when Wright arrived at $3.50 O'Clock
and announced that conditions were suit
able for flight, but would grow worse,
he thought, for which reason he would
try to get into the air at once.
Curtiss to Claim Prize.
Curtiss, it is understood, will claim the
entire amount of the ive-thousand-dollar
prize Of the Hudson-Fulton commission
and will go west at once. basing his
claim on the fact that he was here ready
to fly, but the weather would not permit.
The flight at Rheims, in which Curtiss
won the international fame by capturing
the prize for speed. was made on calm
day, it is said, and the Hammondsport
aviator is not equipped to fight anything
sitter than the gentlest breezes. His BIZ
plane frame is rigid, while that of Wright
warps at the ends. and it may be trim
med to suit the winds as the sails of a
ship are trimmed at sea.
This, Wright says, is the real secret of
his invention. the thing that makes avia-
ton practicable. The rigid plane theory
is the thing, he says, he worked On IN his
earliest experiments and the thing from
which he worked away as he began to
achieve success.
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