Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-21
LONG TRIP WITH PASSENGER
Louis Paulhan Takes His Wife OF
Twenty-T wo-Mile Tour in Air.
TO SEASIDE AND RETUR
Mrs. bishop and Two Newspaper Men
Are Also Taken on shorter
Aerial Jaunts-COnditiOnS
Are Perfect.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 2.-By carry
ing one passenger in his biplane on a
twenty-five mile cross-country trip from
Aviation field to a point half a mile out
over the ocean, by taking another passen-
ger on a twelve-mile flight over the fields,
and by taking three other passengers, one
at a time, on short flights, Louis Paulhan
yesterday established a new worlds record
for heavier-than-air machines.
No other aviator has taken up so many
passengers in one day and no other aviator
has taken a woman for a high flight over
fields and woods and villages and surf
for more thai twenty miles.
Paulha sailed at an altitude of from
500 to 1000 feet over Redondo Beach, We
nice-by-the-Sea and other resorts toward
Point Firmin. There were no life buoys
tied to the machine to save them from
death in the waves should they fall. He
made this trip and other perilous flights
this afternoon with the ease Of a run in
a taxicab.
The passenger carrying record is held by
Orville Wright, who flew with Captain
E~ngelhardt for one hour and thirty-five
minutes at Berlin last fall, but Wright
did not leave the course where he could
land at will.
Mrs. PauIhan and Mrs. Bishop.
Paulhan was gone thirty-three minutes
on his twenty-two-mile trip. He had as
a passenger his wife. His twelve-mile trip
was made with Clifford B. Harmon of New
York. Besides these. he took up Mrs. Cort-
landt w. Bishop, wife of President Bishop
of the Aero club OF American, Lieutenant
Paul Beck of the United States Army Sig
nal corps. William Randolph Hearst, a
newspaper publisher. and another news
paper man.
The flights were made under perfect at
mospheric conditions. Earlier in the after
noon, the wind had been puffy and the
other aviators had gone back to their tents
after trying the course for a few laps.
While the crowd waited patiently in the
burning sunshine. Paulhan went over the
parts OF his machine. At 1927 o'clock he put
on his yellow cloak and helped his wife
up to her high perch. Then he flew out
over the grand stand TO give the big crowd
greeting. With their cheers sounding family
he left the course on his next lap and
headed for the ocean. In ten minutes he
had become a blur against the sunlit
clouds that curtained the Pacific. At $50
O'Clock. Paulhan again came in sight. and
at 3 o'clock he landed directly in front of
the grand stand. lie received congratula-
lions and was taken down the narrow aisle
OF frantic people, so that all could get a
good look at him.
Dummy Dynamite Bombs.
AS ne was in an amiable mood he was
besieged with pleas to take friends up. He
returned to his machine and began to make
this. part OF the program.
Lieuteant Beck. on his trip. took dummy
dynamite bombs to attempt to throw them
from a height TO a measured place on the
ground. This was a test made for the bene-
fit OF the army. While Lieutenant Beck
WIS not successful in placing the bombs
within the square they did not land far
away and 1t was demonstrated that the
aeroplane could be used for such a pur-
pose and that 1t was only a matter Of prae-
tiee to place the bombs where wanted
Paulhan's last flight with Mr.. Harmon
was not made until 8 o'clock. Again he
disappeared in the direction OF the ocean,
but he did not go 10 the shore. He re-
turned after circling the fields in the west.
an approximate distance Of twelve miles.