The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-11
HAMILTON FLIGHI DELAYED.
Minor changes to Ne Made In Hk Machine
HOpes TO start Tomorrow.

Charles X Hamilton will not attempt
his fight from New York to Philadelphia
and return to-day. NJ was scheduled. II
the weather conditions are favorable he
hopes Co get away Tomorrow morning
~ O'Clock The delay was attributed
,o some changes IN tho machine which
was transferred yesterday from the Hemp
stead Plains aviation field where he has
hoen making flights tp Governors Island,
tho starting place Tor the proposed trip.
Mr. Hamilton was up At daybTeRk yes
terday with hope ~ hyinR from Mneola
IN Ssa Clih. hut high winds and a steady
downpour dispelled his plans.
Instead the aero left Us shed about q
4. w. on wheels and was towed by an
automobile. After going some distance
the mechanicians who were following
and keeping the machine in the middle u
the road found IL difficult TO keep pace with
the automobile and decided IN pull Il
along They kept this up until they
stopped for breakfast and secured a horse
and buggy to pull the biz machine along
After It's ten mile journey Il was pui on
a barge and arrived al Governors Island
about Z clock IN the afternoon.
The military prisoners lifted the aero
plane from the dock and wheeled il 70 a
resting place IN q white tent erected on
the place from which Wilbur Wright
made he Hudson Fulton fght. Il was
discovered that a strut had been damaged
slightly Otherwise the machine was not
injured by the trip II was found that IN
supplanting the seven and one-half gallon
oil tank With one that holds twenty gal
Ions the position u the radiator will have
tO he changed somewhat II was also
necessary % adjust a new propeller. ~
repairs will he made to-day and in the
afternoon Mr. Hamilton expects 20 try
out the machine over the ISLAND and possi-
bly, up the Hudson.
Mr. Hamilton In making The flight
from New York TO Philadelphia and re-
turn has a leeway Of twenty -four hours
and with a. many stops A. he finds neces-
sary His twenty gallons Of fuel j. calcu-
lated 10 keep him up three hours. tie
thinks he can make the trip each way
IN Two hours and q half
The aviator who makes the first flight
across Long Island Sound will win the
trophy offered Ivy COuHiTy Ldfs ~ America.
] he trophy ~ offered Tor The HTHt Chtlnu %
o,lS aeroplane Aight across the Sound
from anv place within one mile Of the Mas
sau County Court HOUSE al MineOla. where
the AVIATION grounds ~ the Aero Club Of
America are. % any place north Of ong
Island Sound and east Of the NlAInaroneck
River on the NeW YORK State shore. This
ia a distance of about fifteen miles
The Sound n about FIVE miles vide and
the ten miles from Mineola could be made
overland by flying OFT nv Sands Point
or Great Neck on the west Or over Glen
Cove toward the east FULLY five miles
Gould he hOvn over Hampstead bay
which lies between. Il tho aviator desired
10 Az over water before coming 10 IN"
Sound
Clifford n. Harmon will compete for the
prize and another probable entrant -
Can't Thomas 3 Baldwin. Walter l..
Faircbild. Glenn n Ctlrtisa and Charles
X. Hamilton are expected 70 enter the
composition.
The trophy 10 NJ solid silver-a winged
aoddeas npholding q biplane on tho tips
OF her fingers The Aero Club Ot America
has charge Of the composition,