Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-03
WEDNESDAY TO
BE BIG DAY OF
AVIATION CLUB
BIG CROWD EXPECTED To GO
TO MT. LOWE
BIG MoNoPLANE CONSTRUCTED
AT OCEAN PARK
Capt. Augusta E. Mueller Expects to
StartIe World with His lnvena
ton During "Avlation
Week"

Wednesday will be the red letter day
of the Women's Aviation club, for on
that day the women will give their
excursion to the top of Mount Lowe in
aid of Aviation week. 1t is expected
that at least $500 people will avail
themselves of the opportunity of maxi
ing the trip up the famous mountain
at a reduced price and at the same
time learning something about avia-
ton. Tickets will be sold in the booths
in Hamburger's, Vile de Paris, the
Broadway Department store and Coul-
ter's. The price is 50 a ticket.
Aviators and their representatives
are arriving fast in Los Angeles just
now. Owing TO the storm, Clifford b.
Harmon, owner of the New York, the
$4,000 balloon, did not reach the city
yesterday. He probably will arrive to-
day. He is tied up in the Santa Fe
washout. He will make several ascents
next week to test air currents.
Indiana Party Coming
Information was received yesterday
at the aviation headquarters in the
Security building that a party of sixty
will come to Los Angeles from Indian
apolis. While no balloons dirigibles
or aeroplanes are entered from Indian
apolis, the interest in aviation there
is great, hence the party of inyestiga-
tors from that city.
The extremely inclement weather in
the east is having its effect. Every
mail brings information that owing to
the cold weather in the east, and the
Aviation week in Los Angeles. tourists
are making tracks for the land of sun
shine and flowers. This means that
every section of the United States will
be we'll represented during the meet
&c aCfi111ata6 that q 1paSt I'm -
900 strangers will come to Los Angeles
for the exhibition of air craft and air
kings.
Frank J. Kanne, one of the best
known balloonists in the United States,
wired the aviation committee yesterday
that he would start from Peoria, ILL.,,
next week, bound for Los Angeles He
will enter his balloon in all the races
and contests scheduled for craft of his
kind.
Making Final Arrangements
Overells store and the Hayward hotel
sent checks to the aviation fund yes
terday. The former contributed $100
and the latter $125.
Interest in aviation among local as
pirants for flying honors has been
keenly aroused. Dozens of craft of
every kind are being built and will be
entered. Southern California is now
recognized as the ideal place for avia-
tors, and it probably will be the loca-
tion Of all the big aviation events of
the future.
Captain Augusta z. Mueller, with two
associates, has been at work at Ocean
Park for several weeks on a mono
plane with which he expectes to win
a good many prizes. His flying ma
chine is built on radical lines. His
working model proves all his conten-
tions, he says, and if the actual mono
plane does what Captain Mueller
claims it will, he will create somewhat
of a stir in aviation circles.
Mueller Monoplane Built
The Mueller monoplane is built of
light wood and aluminium, and has not
a nail in it. All the joints are made
with thongs of leather and silk. 1t
weights 100 pounds and carries a so
horse power Tourist engine, from
which power is generated. The mono
plane looks more like a fish than a
flying machine. Two driving shafts,
each seventy feet long, operate along
each side of the machine, and revolve
four propellers, two at each end. The
forward propellers each have three
blades and the rear ones four blades.
The blades are of aluminium. The
blades travel in their own separate or
bits, the invention of Captain Mueller
The supporting plane has surface
of 5000 square feet The propelers are
operated at the rate of 800 revolutions
a minute, and will allow the monoplane
to attain a speed Of at least sixty
miles an hour Captain Mueller says
his invention of thirty-siX small pro-
pellers will allow him to rise from the
ground at the rate of eight miles an
hour.
The Mueller monoplane is the largest
ever built, and much is expected OF it
in the coming aviation exhibition.
Magazine writer's and newspaper men
who watch the Aviation meet will
have ample opportunity to obtain bal
loon views of Los Angeles county, for
the two balloons entered locally wall
be sent up with special parties made
up for their benefit. James II. Hale
of the art department of Golfers
wrote the committee asking about an
opportunity to take photographs from
a balloon while at the meet, and Dick
Ferris telegraphed him last night,
placing his own balloon at the disposal
of Golfers for the purpose of secur-
ing aerial pictures.
Magazine Photographers Coming
The illustrated weeklies and several
magazines have arranged to send spe-
cial representatives to the aviation
events, and all who wish will be in
Vited to make a balloon ascension. A
balloon will probably be available at
the aviation camp for taking photo
graphs from the air during the flights.
Aviators who are on the way to Los
Angeles are being held up by block
AIDES, and are wondering when they
will reach their destination. Clifford
B. Harmon, whose balloon New York
is waiting in the express office here,
is himself in Arizona on a belated
Santa Fe train. Jerome S. Fanciulli,
manager of the Curtiss interests, is
waiting in Utah. The trains now wait
ing for washed out bridges are carry
ing passengers coming to Los Angeles
for the events.
The balloon New York, which Cliff
ford B. Harmon will pilot next week,
already holds most of the official
American records. Harmon and Au-
gustus Post won the national duration
and altitude records with the New
York, remaining up forty-eight hours
and twenty-six minutes without an in
termediate landing and attaining a
height of 24,200 feet in the st. Louis
centennial race. The Lahm cup was
won by A. Holland Forbes and M. A.
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