Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-12-28

= Race Meet. Il
u Sunday, Jan. I. 3:
u Airship Flight-Moanalua. q
Il Monday, Jan. 2. q
u Airship Flight-Moanalua. q
q Two Soccer Games Hawaiian q
u Association Football League. u
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Mars had started out to break the
Pacific Coast record for altitude made
| by Louis Paulhan at Los Angeles.
| Gracefully he rose into the air, and
as he swept around the field he
mounted higher and higher into the
sky until no longer could the crowd
| below hear the whirr OF his engine.
Suddenly the other aviators were
Mortified to see Mars suddenly dart
| toward the earth. Involuntary cries
broke from the lips of both Curtiss
and willard, and Mrs. Mars, who was
seated in an automobile, shriekeG
with horror as she, too, realized
what was taking place thousands of
feet above her. Once around the
field Mars glided, his machine swift
| ly losing its momentum. Unable to
hold 1t in the air any longer, he
tilted the planes downward and
swooped toward the earth.
Mechanics made frantic efforts to
remove Wizards machine, which
seemed to be directly in the path of
the oncoming aeroplane, but Mars
passed 800 feet over them, heading
directly for row of automobiles
which lined one edge of the field.
| His cool nerve saved the daring
young birdman at the last moment.
Had his machine gone straight ahead
II would have crashed into the auto
mobiles but Mars almost stood It on
end as he turned II right about and
glided down in perfect safety.
| Glenn Curtiss described the drop
as one of the most thrilling bits of
aerial navigation he had ever seen.
He was the first to grasp the hand
of Mars when he left his machine,
and congratulated him on his sue
cess.
While climbing upward Mars
struck cold strata of air which
froze his engine and put his biplane
out of commission for the remainder
of the afternoon. Earlier in the day,
however, he made a thrilling glide
to earth from a height of about 1900
| feet.
Perfectly satisfied, is the way the
three aviators who reached Honolulu
yesterday expressed themselves with
| Moanalua as site to start their
flights in this city, after visit paid
to the polo field In company with
Whipple Hall and Ed Lewis.
Mars is the only one of the three
now here who took part in the avi-
alton meet at Fresno the middle of
the present month, the other two fly
ers there being Glenn Curtiss and
Charles Willard, and all three of!
them were In the air at the same
time during the first day of the meet.
This was the second aviation meet
that Fresno held during the present
year, and on that account the city
holds itself more progressive than its
California neighbors.
Mars did lots OF spectacular work
at Fresno, and Curtiss' new ma
chine proved its power well by over
taking both the others after they
had a start OF several minutes.
Willard made some cross country
flights which covered distance of
forty miles, and during which he
attained a speed of sixty miles an
hour.
The military authorities are TAX !
Ing great interest In the flights to
be held here, and Mars will do some
bomb throwing from his machine,
showing how accurate this can be
done.
AT Fresno he dropped bomb, an
orange, his target being circle of
thirty feet, within which stood Lieu
tenant McClockey of the Marine
Corps. He was at an altitude OF $50
feet when he successfully dropped
the bomb, which landed within
twenty feet of Lieutenant McCIosky.
The flights at Moanalua will be
high ones, as II will be necessary
for the machines to rise higher than
the surrounding hills, in order to
have room for maneuyering properly,
said the aviators after returning
from their visit to the polo field yes /
terday afternoon.
Two machines were brought to Ho-
nolulu by the ayiators. and both will
be in the air at the same time dur
Ing the flights in this city.
Captain Baldwin is the oldest avi-