The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-24
Honolulu Girls Shy.

Honolulu Girls Shy.
No applications were received yes
terday from Honolulu girls for a flight
with Aviator Mars. Perhaps they are
trife shy of the game, or maybe just
little diffident. and want to be coaxed,
BY the time the daring birdman gets
here, however, they perhaps will have
mustered up the courage. Whipple Hall
flew out to Moanalua Field yesterday in
an auto and pronounced it an ideal place
to start flights from
Captain Thomas Baldwin, who will
be one of the trio of performers to ar
rive here on the Wilhelmina next Tues
day, is one of the oldest men at the
game, being about sixty years of age.
He was the first one to 90 up in bal
loon and take the parachute route back
again. These feats he used to perform
at dollar per foot altitude, said Hall
yesterday, some times dropping from a
height of two thousand feet. which net
ted him two thousand dollars.
Then he took to experimenting with
dirigibles. and in company with J. c.
Mars built the California Arrow, which
was sold to the United States govern
ment. Glenn Curtiss. Lieutenant Self
ridge (who was recently killed. and
!. A. r. McCurdy then started flying
in the Curtiss biplane, while Baldwin
developed a biplane of his own, which
is a slight modification OF the Curtiss
model In this heavier-than-air machine
Baldwin made a lOng-distance flight
over the Mississippi River from st.
Louis, and every time he passed over a
bridge he swung around and swooped
down under it.
Teaches Mars to Fly.
Curtiss met Mars after the California
Arrow was built. and on the strength of
his reputation he took him to his place
in Hammondsport, New York, provided
him with machine and taught him to
tv He took his course of instructions
on Kauka Lake in the winter, when
il was frozen over. His first exhibition
flight was in Memphis, Tennessee, in
company with CurtIss and Willard.
Mars won every prize in this meet.
In the course Of his maueuvers he
fell with his machine four hundred feet.
lighting on an automobile. The auto
anu ana DlpIdNt were IbiH NItthtI,
and Mars got a bump on his ankle. \
week later, with his foot in a plaster
cast, Mars made an exhibition fight at
Kansas City. Later. over Sheepshead
Bay. off Long Island, his machine went
dead. and Mars dropped two thousand
feet into the water. He was all tangled
up i'm his wings and fishermen had to
cut him loose to rescue him. He pro-
ceeded at once to the aviation field,
borrowed Filler Elv's machine and made
another fight while his clothing was
still wet from his ducking.
The latest stunt which Mars has
added to his aviation record was taking
an army officer mp with his gun to shoot
at targets on the ground from varying
attitudes and at different rates OF speed.
Does Spectacular Stunts.
Mars IS considered the best aviator
ou the CurtIes staff, as wen a. the most
daring His maneuvers are Of the spec
raruIar kind, while Tod Sebriyer eXcels
ia rro>~comtrv flying. Mars does the
most thrilling dips. Turns and gjiles,
and cuts fancy figures our OF the at
n5spbrre One of his srarIaltirs S the
spiral glide. Ina which Aviator Johustonc
vas recently Killed while trying 10
negotiate.
..Tbe engine is off while the Itr3man
is circIinL around. 80 sa.d WhiupIe Hall
Yesterday. "aud it WAS when Johustone
attempted TO make the turns that he
lost his balance and was preeiultated
ro eartu II that fata. catastrophe -