Arizona republican., 1910-01-12
FLEW WITH \ PASSENGER
Faster Than the Feat Had Ever Been Performed Before-Paulhan and a Companion Fell Short of the Americans Time.

| Los Angeles, Jan. 11-Broken rec ords. thrilling flights with passengers
 and without, four aeroplanes in the air at the same time and breasting a | semi-gale that sported dangerously with the delicate contrivances made | for the 25.000 spectators at Aviation | Field today thrilling finale to an afternoon that had promised only a tame program.
 i Curtiss, the silent. quiet American. l defeated his French rival. Paulhan in | a keen race for honors and shattered | the speed record for aeroplanes carry l ipg passenger. Rising in high wind ! that held thetwoi ponderous dirigibles ef Knabsnshue and Beachey helpless i he flew a wide circle in front of the grand stand at the rate of 8 miles an hour with his manager, M. Fanciulli, beside him on the aviator's seat, Not to be outdone Paulhan took up
 one of his mechanicians and flew twice around the, mile and half course. but failed to equal the speed Curtiss developed. However he cover ed more ground than his opponent. His flight was with a Belroit machine the first with monoplane in the coun- try Mere pigmies beside the big Far man machine the monoplane looked puny and unable to raise a man in the air much less withstand the assaults of a fifteen to twenty mile wind. Yet. after an abortive attempt by Mis- carol, one of the other French flyers. Paulhan took it and sped twice around the field, although he never rose high CT than 50 feet from the ground. Curtiss all the while remained si- lent Clad in oil spotted working clothes, an old cap and shoes that had
 seen heavy duty. he spent his time
 tuning up the eight cylinder motor on the Rheims bi-plane with which he
 won the international cup at Rheims and a flyer of which he never likes to
 talk. Never once did heslook at what
 Paulhsn was doing in the air. But when the latter's fourth flight had ended. his mechanicians trundled the
 Farman machine to the starting point
 Without preliminaries of any sort he motioned to the Fanciulli to get in the
 machine. That was the first anyone knew positively that any of the aero
 planes on the field were equipped for passengers.
 Exciting events began at once. Climbing in beside his manager. Cur
 tiss gave the word to one of his as- sistants A pop and rattle like ar tillery, and the most remarkable flight of the day had begun. This was the flight that established the passenger speed record. Describing a wide circle in front of the grand stand Curtiss flew with Fanciulli at all angles to the wind. and he landed almost at the same spot from which he started. Lieut. Paul Beck of the army signal corps. and one of the judges announc- ed that he had figured the speed at B miles an hour When the record breaking figures were announced the tremendous crowd went wild.
 Paulhan, standing beside his bi- plane on the other side of the field saw the performance through his binoculars. These he dropped sudden ly and gesticulating as he rattled in structions to his crew of mechani- clans. made them race to get his mo- tor started immediately. He mounted
 
 same time that Willard and Hamilton brought their machines to the start in front of the grand stand.
 Directly after they got off Curtiss took Clifford Harmon. the New York sportsman and balloonist into the seat beside him and rose again on another flight-with passenger. All four aero 'planes in the air at once presented a thrilling sight that sent the crowd into renewed frenzy. Paulhan landed in a few minutes and. determined to regain some of the lost ,laurels. ordered one of his assistants into the seaH with him. Then he rose and twice circled the course, his great bi-plane soaring as gracefully with the extra man as it had done~with Paulhan alone.
 In quick succession Curtiss tried for starting record and a record for landing. He succeeded in establishing both. But Willard. coming next to the trial at the landing beat the best his chief could do. He started from a marked square of ten feet, flew for two minutes and returning landed on exactly the same spot. Curtiss, how ever. set a new record for getting away to make up for the landing honor he lost. He rose from the ground ninety eight feet from the start in 63s seconds from the time his engine started. Paulhan tried to beat both marks but the best he could do was to raise in 12k seconds from the time his engine started. and his ma chine ran more than 100 feet along the ground before it rose.