Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-06
TRIUMPHS OF CURTlSS.
Career Of the Famous Aviator In Al,
NavicatIon.


Years Of study and patience in tn.
face Of seemingly Observation-Disclosures oo
stacles have gained for Glenn II Cur.
tiss. the American aviator. his success
as an inventor and aviator. He ua>
made record after record in The air
Few men have taken the risks Curti>s
has. few men have sailed as many
miles through the air. aud few Wen
have met with so few accidents Only
once was CurtiSs near death while hy.
ing a biplane That was AT Rheims
in France. when he was preparing tor
aviation week In a practice flight
leak was sprung IN the gasoline tank.
and his aeroplane Swooped to the
ground. For several days Curtiss
walked with a cane.
Curtiss won his greatest success at
the international aviation meeting in
Rheims. He also won the admiration
Of his foreign rivals ut the meet. Cur
tiss flew for the title of champion avi.
ator Of the world ut Rheims on Aug.
%. 1909. when he wen the Coupe In
ternationale d'Aviatiou. Ia a biplaIe
invented by himself he made two
rounds of the ten kilometer course IL
distance of 1912 miles. in IL minutes
and 80 So seconds. This was ut the
rate Of forty-seven miles an hour. 1t
was great victory for America. and
Frenchmen complimented Curtiss on
his wonderful feat.
Before Curtiss went to Rheims he
made many flights over Hampstead
plains at Mineola. y. y. These flights
were sensational. for Curtiss estab-
lished record after record. His first
important fight WAS made ut MineuGa
on July Ii. 1863. when he w;S in The air
twenty minutes and forty seconds. tile
best Ameritan record up t. that tine.
The following day Curtis>s tr.eu a-aln
for record. and this time he stayed
up ffty-two minutes and forty seconds.
setting another American record and
coming within twenty-five minutes If
the Wrights' record.
1t has been CurtiSS' Knowledge of
the gasoline engine that has been the
greatest aid to him in perfecting the
aeroplane. Curtiss. who is not Yet for
ty years old. took an interest in gasn-
line engines when he WAS hut Il buy
at his home in uammond>p"rt. y J..
where he conceived the idea of put
ting Il motor Oh Il bicycle 10 aid him
III climbing the village streets. His
idea WAS successful. and the machine
he built became the wonder of the
countryside He has since built engines
for Girigible airships. for submarine
boats, for motorboats and for aero
planes.
1t was in the dirigibe airship of
Thomas F. Baldwin that Curtiss first
became known as an aeronaut In
June. 1907. he established a worlds
record in one Of Baldwin's airships at
HammondsDort Baldwin piloted the
airship while Curtiss tended the mo-
tor. The airship attained a speed of
more than twenty miles an hour.
1t was little more than three years
ago that Curtiss began building motors
for aeropianes. The June Bug. built
at Hammondsport, was one Of the first
biplanes to gain serious attention i'll
the United States. 1t was wonderful
thing when the June Bug. navigated
By Curtiss. few few hundred feet,
and a sensation was made when. Oh
July 4. 1908. Curtiss won the $500
Scientific American trophy by covering
a mile in better than l minute 45 Sec
onds. Curtiss gave the first public ex-
hibition in America in an aeroplane.
Curtiss has made flights in many OF
the leading American cities. His con-
scientious efforts to fly whenever 1t
has been possible won him hosts Of
friends. The inventor has often risked
his life rather than disappoint the
spectators at aviation meetings. When
he was flying at Hampstead plains he
once went up in fog In which be
ahead 81 him