Imperial Valley press., 1910-01-22
PractiCabiIity of Air Graft is Demonstrated by French
 Expert Aviator
Visitors From Valley Become Enthu- siastic and Organize Submarine Ae- rial Transportation company-Crowd Discovers Excuse For Monstrous Sunday Newspaper.

A large delegation from Imperial Valley went to Los Angeles this week to see the flying machines operated on Dominguez field, and some of the sub marine farmers were dissuaded with difficulty from buying aeroplanes and trying to fly home in them. The trick looked so easy that George Carter offered to bet that he could learn to pilot one of the craft in three hours. A party of valley men roasted on the top tier of the grand stand for six hours last Sunday, needless of the rain that drenched the waiting crowd, and gravely organized the Submarine Aerial Transportation Company to in- troduce aeroplanes into Imperial Val
 ley and navigate the air below the level of the sea. The directors of the company are Allen Kelly, George Car ter Harold Bell Wright, c. K. Clarke, Leroy Holt, Tom Beach, R. H. Benton and w. c. Whitescarver Some of the directors have capital and the rest have imagination and enthusiasm, all of which are useful in flying. Kelly was appointed a committee ofAone to try all the machines and select one for the company, but when last heard from he had not flown more than a rabbit
 The immense crowd on the grounds and the admirable arrangements for the comfort and convenience of the people were almost as interesting as the feats of the fliers. A vast crowd waited patiently through hours of drizzle on Sunday, hoping that the sky would clear and give the aviators a chance to demonstrate the conquest of the air by man, and for the first time in history the reason of existence of the big Sunday newspaper was dis closed. Men and women made Rob- inson Crusoe hats and umbrellas of the big sheets, spread them for lap robes and draped them over their shoulders, and when the papers be- came soaked with rain they called to the newsboys for more papers. The Sunday sheets and comic sections had large circulation on Dominguez field.
 The Frenchman, Paulhan, was the whole show on Sunday and all through the week he was in the spot light. When no other aviator would take a chance in the wind, Paulhan hopped into the air and flew around the course. He was always doing the unexpected and the seemingly i'm possible, and he showed himself the most expert aviator on the grounds. His control of the Farman flier was so sure that hardly a man in the crowd would have hesitated had he been invited to climb up beside the Frenchman and take a little trip to San Diego and back He scared a mile high, shut off his engine and coasted down the air planes to the ground as easily as a bird; flew to Arcadia and back, trip of over forty five miles, in an hour; flew out over the ocean with passenger; sail ed around the course for more than two hours at time, and generally proved the practicability of the aero plane as means of rapid and safe locomotion.
 The dirgible balloons were exhibit ed and their ability to navigate the air was proved, but they were not "in it" with the aeroplanes. They seemed to be clumsy machines to han de and fit only for acrobats to oper- ate None of them were provided with the devices which give stability to the German airships. The success ful aeroplanes are remarkable for sim plicity of construction and apparent ease with which the pilot controls their movements Flying in one of them looks as easy as guiding an au- tomobile and no more dangerous Av- iation has ceased to be mysterious and no longer amazes the man on the