Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-27
AERONAUTS PLAN
BIG EXHIBITION
AVlATORS ARE BUSY WITH
PICK AND SHOVEL
ARRANGING SHOW TO BE HELD
MAY AND2
Members of Club, with Help of Poly
technic Boys, Are Trans
forming Fiesta
Park

Aviators have come down from the
clouds at Fiesta park and are making
dirt fly with pick and shovel, a score
of members of the Aero club OF CAN
fornia being as busy as though tney
were trying to qualify for jobs in the
municipal public works department.
But they are only building low that
they might fly high, constructing
giant catapult and sundry other ac-
cessories to enable sthem to give the
elders boost when the airships are
brought out during the big aero show
May l and 2.
The great arena and track of the
Fiesta park are nearly finished, the
Aero club has been admitted to the
Enclosure to complete the preparations
for it's own entertainment and there is
much to be done by the members, all
of whom have demonstrated their
readiness and willingness to slip into
overalls and turn a hand with the
best of them. Professor H. l.. Twining
of the Los Angeles Polytechnic high
school, when through the classes at
the school, hurries to Fiesta park and
shows the boys the most approved
method of scientifically graphing with
heavy timbers or of welding pick in
the most effective way. The students
of the Polytechnic, members of the
Aero club of the school, are as full of
zeal, WORKING Hdru " GeI eNoi tiiiii6
ready.
The transfer of the big Zerbe ma
chine from the old barn to the inside
of the park was a problem which was
solved by Captain A. e. Mueller, who
volunteered to hoist the flyer over the
walls with a balloon. The airship is
practically ready for fight, but cooped
up in a big barn at the southwest cor
ner of the track. The walls of the sta
n t,ri1 q
barn, leaving the airship a prisoner.
Captain Mueller, with the balloon
American, will pick the airship up
after the barn roof has been removed
and gently deposit it inside the track,
whence it can take it's flight with be-
coming dignity at the proper time.
AeronauticaI Exposition
The aero show will be distinctly an
aeronautical exposition, and the pro-
motors have thought it fit to boost it
aerially. To this end five complete
balloons, eleven feet in diameter and
nineteen feet high have been con-
structed by Rilliet. One of these ball
looms, carrying a season ticket to the
show, will be set free at noon today.
and another at noon of each day until
the opening of the show. The balloons,
each of which cost about $40, will be-
come the property of the finder, the
Aero club only asking that the recov-
cred balloons be brought back to the
show for exhibition, together with the
names of the finders and other infor-
nation.
A large kite has also been built by
the students of the Polytechnic high
school to display a large banner high
above the streets and kites will be
used to drop parachutes all over the
city during the remainder of the week.
Captain Mueller, the expert balloon
list, has nearly completed the reassem-
bling of the parts of the great balloon
American, which will be used to give
captive flights. The American will be
moored inside the track, near the east
ern side, where the various airship
models will be exhibited. This will
leave ample space on the west side for
the glider contests, wind wagon races
and other events, any of which may
be viewed from the balloon car by pas
sengers on the famous American.
All told, the entertainment promises
to be one of the most original and in
teresting ever attempted by any or
ganization in California, and the Poly
boys and members of the Aero club
of California are working like beavers
to be ready in time.