The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-16
TOBE HELD IN JULY
Aviator Mars Still Hopes for
Topeka-Kansas City Fly.
Will Return After Present Con.
tracts Are Fulfilled.
A LARGER MACHINE.
He Would Have New Curtiss s.
Cylinder AerOplane.
Make Flight in One Hour With
No Stops.
| LARGER MACHINE.

The Topeka to Kansas City flight
has not been given up by Bud Mars,
the p1ucky little aviator who has been
holding a series of exhibitions in To-
peka and who has just been forced to
abandon the fight on account of con-
tracts in Louisville, KY
According to an account of his plans
given to a State Journal reporter this
morning Mars will make an effort to
secure from Glenn Curtiss one of the
powerful sixty horsepower eight cyl
inder aeroplanes when in Louisville
next Sunday and with this machine he
will attempt to make a record break
ing fly between Topeka and Kansas
City-without a stop.
81 want one of those big engines"
said Mars in speaking of the matter.
With an eight cylinder sixty horse
power machine like the biplane used
could easily fly between Topeka and
Kansas City. Not only would l feel
that the power behind me would carry
me in fast time between the two cities,
but 1 believe that 1 could make the
fly and not drop to the ground once"
Topeka Machine Too Small.
His attempt to take the cross coun-
try fight of eighty miles with the
small twenty-four horsepower aero
plane which he used in his exhibitions
III topeka, was one OIL the features OF
the flight. 1t was conceded by those
who had studied the situation that
with flight of this kind along the
Kaw valley which is favorite trysting
place of treacherous air currents and
wind gusts, the little biplane with its
limited power would have to make a
hard fight to win
All of the distance between Topeka
and Lawrence was accomplished by
Mars through his clever work at the
IL, Al Trrrl. HE a1NIT
manipulation of the machine. At every
turn of the game when there was the
least gust of wind the little machine
swerved ducked, dropped and swayed
in the air like toy balloon. The
power of the engine was not heavy
enough to carry the aeroplane against
the wind and the gusts-it was at
their mercy.
With a go horsepower biplane similar
to the one used by Curtiss in his fam
that the Topeka-Kansas City flight will
be the prettiest in the west.
eff / make the fly in that machine
I will not think of any stops unless
have an accident of some kind" said
Mars. Not only would l be able to
buck the wind gusts and fly high in
the air at ali times but I think that
sn hours time would be all that was
necessary to make the trip"
|, Mars does not feel very enthusiastic
| CpOQl Ills Ill WlliSh S<1liAS ~ AAi NAAN
last night.
"I want to go back to Topeka with
a big machine and make this all over
again., he said. II want to show the
people who have backed this that it
can be done and that with the right
conditions it can be done successfully
to everyone. OF course We have had
trouble ali along the line and at no
tine has the engine worked as it should
but I am not blaming anyone or any
~ T ,I,o 10 n Ia a
up want to clear up this flight and
leave with a clean record.
Up to the present time Mars has con-
tracts which will hold him away from
this part of the country until after the
Fourth of July. 1t is just after this
date that he desires to renew the at
tenpts of a Topeka to Kansas City
flight and show the people that it can
be done successfully.
Strang Called 1t OFF.
The flight from Lawrence to Kansas
City or the second grand lap of the
Topeka-Kansa City fly was called off
tcGay by Strang, the Kansas City pro-
moter, who. had held the purse for Mars
to win on completion of his successful
fly Feeling that under the conditions
the flight would be a losing proposition
and conferriug with Mars over the
matter Strang asked that at this time
the purse be called off and Mars con-
scented.
1t will be remembered that in the
contract it was agreed that if Mars
should land in Kansas City before to-
night the IqIrSe should be his. Techn1-
cally speaking Mars could have secured
the purse by making the flight today
but realizing the loss it would mean TO
the promoters the aviator gave up the
f1igtt-to be set at some future date.
The Mars aeroplane is in good shape
today. All night the mechanics worked
on it and not until about O'Clock this
morning were they able to discover
that one of the valves was broken in
cylinder. 1t was finally repaired but
the waiting crowds with despair heard
CT the postponenent of the flight.
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