Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-20
BY SHIRLEY A. OLYMPUS

n NE more worlds record-that Of
cross-country passenger-carrying
" flight-added to Louis Paulhan's
long list of victories, the CHILDISH BIZ
plane a wreck, a dirigible balloon race
won by Lincoln Beachy and the failure
of C. K Hamilton to make a serious
dent in Paulhans altitude record are
the brief words which tell the story of
the. aviation events at Dominguez yes
terday.
1t was a day of strange accomplish
ment5 and stranger failures. For the
accomplishments, there is Paulhan tu
be credited. For the failures there
only mystery as to their explanation.
Hillery Beachy, plotting the artist
cratic CHILDISH biplane, made a beat
tiful flight of a mile or more, and the en
suddenly came to disaster while hoa
ing serenely through space some for
feet above the earth. He thinks it WI
his engine which failed to work. Wha
ever the cause, he now has machil
with planes bent, broken and tor,
rods twisted and broken into kindlil
wood; running gear which never W..
run again; a damaged engine and aag &
headache. He will be compelled to r.
build his aeroplane before it ever max S
another flight.
Paulhan made a successful eros
country flight of twenty-one miles wit
Madame Paulhan as a passenger. Ia
set a new worlds record in so doir
and repeated the operation with sligh
ly varying success when he carried
Clifford B. Harmon as a passenger Is
first flight was made in thirty three
minutes and his second in nearly the
same time.
Starts for seashore
To those who stood with upturned
faces, wildly waving their hands and
loudly cheering, while their eyes bulged
with amazement, the sight of Paulhan
and his wife skimming through the air
$50 feet above where Redondo Beach
and Hermosa go down to the sea, was
the wonder of wonders. They We're be-
holding for the first time the newest
form of travel. To Paulhan the view
of the clear blue waters of the Pacific
was grand, but the ride was more like
one taken in a taXicab to a favorite
club or place of amusement. He had
gone out to the sea to give his wife her
first sight of the Pacific ocean, so the
flight was more or less of an aerial
"joy ride with thought only on fun
and not of worlds records.
It was just past 230 o'clock when
Paulhan and his wife rose into the air
near the Frenchman's hangar. No an
nouncement of any cross-country flight
had been made, and it was not until
after he had winged off into space that
Paulhan's destination was made known
to the judges and spectators.
Once he circled around the course,
passing high before the grandstand.
Again he circled the course, swinging
far to the south and passing over the
western end of the spectators seats.
AS he reached the northwest corner of
the course he headed straight for the
sea. At first it was thought he was
fOr 10
soon turn in his tracks and come back
to aviation field. Smaller and smaller
the biplane grew until at last it was
lost in the clouds which rise near the
coast. Then the judges knew Paulhan
was "going down to the sea in an
airship."
circled Over Hermosa
Fifteen minutes after Paulhan was
lost to view of those on Dominguez
field he was circling around Hermosa
and Redondo Beach. Below him boomer
and roared the surf, mingling its sonor-
GUS tones with the quick explosions of
his motor. For just few minutes
Paulhan pointed out the grandeurs of
the ocean and the shore to his wife.
Used to strange sights as she is, she
clapped her hands with delight, and
waved gaily to those $50 feet below.
Sightseeing in biplane is like watch
ing a panoramic. II Takes place So
quickly that but a few seconds gives
one a clear view of everything worth
seeing at all. 1t was just so with
Madame Paulhan's view of land and
sea. She saw much, quickly, and then
was ready to return. To the east the
biplane was headed, and at a 30-mile-
an-hour gate the two air voyageurs re-
turned to camp.
They came to earth amid deafening
cheers. 1t was with difficulty that the
mounted deputies restrained the crowd
from breaking through the wire fence
and surrounding Paulhan and his wife.
AS it was they were surrounded by the
hundred or more on the field, and were
compelled to run a perfect battery of
camera men before they we're allowed
to go in peace to the hangar.
The descent was made within a few
feet of the press boxes and was one of
the prettiest ever made by Paulhan.
He glided to earth from height Of 200
feet with all the grace of a bird.
For the first time since Paulhan has
made flights at Dominguez he went out
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