Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
N. AND NJ. INDORsEs MEET

The Merchants and Manufacturers
association formally indorsed the meet
yesterday.
Samuel r. Perkins, the man-kite
king, will be an added attraction at
Dominguez field aviation week. Per-
kins wired acceptance of the commit
tees offer from Kansas City yesterday
and will arrive here Friday with a
carload of kites.
II will begin to set up my kites for
practice work Friday and will do some
stunts never seen BEFORE" wired Per-
kins. Perkins chief stunt is to ride
his kites hundreds of feet into the air,
but he does other tricks that are as
thrilling as aerOplaning, and often
more dangerous.
The committee has not heard from
J. Armstrong Drexel. the millionaire
aviator, nor HarkneSS, both of whom
were wired offers to compete in the
coming meet. But whether these
aviators come or not, an imposing ar
ray of airmen never before witnessed
at a single meet in the United States
is already assured.
Up to last night the list Of men who
will be seen on Dominguez field in
cluded:
Walter Brookins, Arch Hoxsey and
p. o. Parmelee OF the Wright BROTH
ers: j. C. Mars, Charles Willard. Eu-
gene Ely and probably Glenn Curtiss
of the Curtiss aviators; Hubert
Latham, the Frenchman; James Rad
ley. the Englishman. and others.
Captain Baldwin, pioneer in aero
nautics, is sure to be signed up and
Tod Schriver is another who will at
tempt to get away to better start
than in previous meets.
NEW RECORDS EXPECTED
Airmen are confidently looking for
ward to the meet to produce a num-
Der of new records. With the aVia-
tors OF three countries competing, the
best efforts on the part of the bird
men are sure to be put forth.
1t will be a contest between diff
ferently patterned machines In a large
sense The Wright aviators will COM
pete with their fast and slow bi-
planes; the Curtiss machines, differ
ing in many respects from the Wright
craft, will go in for speed records,
while Latham in his Antoinette and
Radley in his Blerot monoplane give
promise OF taking off their share Of
the honors.
Walter Brookins has broken more
worlds records and has held them
longer than any man in the game to-
day. He broke the cross country rec
ord for flight from Chicago to SPRING
field, a distance of 1872 miles. He has
the slow flight record, made in Bos-
ton, and made this record from flying
q l-2 miles an hour only.
BroOkins has made complete circle
IN 2-5 seconds and three times has
broken the altitude record Of the world,
He broke Paulhan's record at Indian
apois with a sustained flight of 1875
miles, followed It with a flight OF 4940
miles at the same place, and at At
lantic City made 6175 miles. He has
made the fastest time in an aeroplane
ever made in competition. although
the record does not stand. He made
at Belmont Park 115 miles an hour,
struck the ground going ninety miles
an hour. and his machine turned over
at ninety-five miles. He is the man
has trained all Of the Wright aviators
who originated the spiral dip and
now engaged in active flight.
SPECIAL DAYS ARRANGED
The aviation meet has been arrang-
ing special days to accommodate out
of-tOwn visitors.
San Diego will have Friday, Decem-
Der 30, and on that date the visitors
from the southern city will be given
carte blanche
The Santa Fe railroad IS arranging
TO run special trains to accommodate
visitors. and n special train to carry
automobiles of the San Diego visitors.
, Sap Diego Gay last year was one Of