The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-27

mean o make that kind nl "A flight. Really
] aS-Ip' ynu that didn l..
-~hhhh'- whk!ao'd Mars and Fly
together -Dn't say b.. You've got ~
al skinned You MAKE marley Harniitnn
hook IKE an old lady IA a rocking chair
4 fancy r"-tImed Mr.. Post calmly
that dii ROT allow myself roam enough
~ which To land II ~'''tu''d certain that
I would Int the fanC'. 50 ! hal To- 60 ur
IA the air again. II -'"rn''d "a-I"r ~
turn t. th" right than ~ the l"it. 80
v"lt tina way. | had hit a hummr'k
ur 'Wo. l-'li"yr. t-''urr ia" fcnC" doomed
up.
What tam" ito Won expect tu Nv tu-
NOR o. inquired Bud
Possibly about o'clock IN IA" after
noon sad Mr.. Post. Why
-Oh, nothing replied bud. W" u
h" On the grandstand rpoi, that's all.
won't We Gpn,'-
We SUR viii said Mr. Ely firmly
\ little less than two years ago an
uninaginltlve German householder NJ
trit-dennu. 4 suburb Ut Berlin. Who hid
h'rn taking an afternoon nap wOk" up
10 $500 MIR Post falling through th" C''ii-
ng II his bedroom MIR. Post was Just
finishing a $3.50 foot tumble with the big
dlrhdg tungucrOr. IN which he had be'h
sailing With \ n Forbes 1T TN" New York
Aero 'iuh. II - said that the German
Was much NOR" surprised than Mr.. Post
The few hundred p-ppl" who waited
patiently dll afternoon IA an" grand ana
i"ld stands for tn" living men u accom-
pli-h sonnet hing spectacular yesterday
Couldnt understand why the rlght>
were straight and short The little whit"
flags that droopt.d IN the Iniield. marking
the limits 1T the ste"pleChase course.
were not indicative of the winds crank
ness They were protected and 80 clo-''
tn the ground that they didn't catch the
spinning gusts Of tn" higher airs: Bn,
- few test N ghts convinced Mars Fly and
MC urdy that very high flying would tee
foolhardy and that Mars's plan To wing
tn sandy Hook and hack following the
coast line. was impossible. Toward dark
the wind behaved itself much better.
but by this time was no fun FOR tn" crowd
Too difficult To -'o the machines
Gnne Elv made the first skim of he after
noon At AZ \. VI lie sailed low over the
lnfell hufet"d hy the Shlfty currents
and began 20 MAX" turn az ia" north
end
oh OH cried little Mrs Ely, who,
with Mars'S wife, ~ always on hand when
the fiers ar. at work 4 dom want him ~
max" turn He might lose all momentum
~ that wind and drop like "A stone.
He's all right. said Mrs Mars.
-pi course you'd say thai Rat II n
was Bud ynu wuEldn. h" - careless.
sad Mr. Fiv
ON. wouldr.t l. Hero. Bud you make
An right Boss. sad tn" aviator
Her" goes aud away he went
Ia" ttr,.'. tlv, Mars and MCCurdv
mad" two or thrr" straIRh'awav Nights
before tlv and Mars raced The length II
m" iured Fly got away q few seconds
ahead ol Mar but his motor cuuldn :
give the power that Mars's had. - he
was ds behlnd when m" dash ended
They A"w about hftv feet high with a
hundred yaTis II daylight between IN"
racing planes
~ S5l = VI Mars wont up and flow
slN minutes. cirrllng the course thr""
times and taking the turns Tx" "a swallow
\ few miuut"s later IN" thr'e lined mp
Tor a rar" bat Met 'uriv dropped ate
- low Hlgh' leaving Mars and Elv -
hgh' II ont Mars smore powerful nachiu"
CAV" HIM m" victory again few MN
utcS aft"rwsrt both Ely and Mars Sw"pi
around 'h. course j'sl feet up and con
>ldcrahly bothered hy N" purv winds
Then Augustus Post trutt"b out b aerial
bronco and wound up ~" day "'r'ar
'alnm"n'
The nesting Will cnhtIuu" thus aft"rl"un
and tu-morruw afternoon. beginning a.
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