The Detroit times., 1910-10-24
FRENCH Av|AT0Rs
IN ANGRY MOOD
Foreigners Make Warm Protest
Against Flying Over Ground Dotted
With Trees and Houses.

BELMONT AVIATION PARK. L. /.
Oct. 24.-Although perfect weather
conditions prevailed on the opening
OF the third day OF great information
al aviation tournment, radical differ
ences between the aviators them
selves, promised to mar the sport.
Early today the wind. which pre-
vented yesterdays flights and wreck
ed the machines Of Moisant and
Crahame-White, was absolutely still
but Quarrels between the foreign fly
ers and the committee In charge o1
the event made up In violence what
the wind lacked.
The failure of the aviation commit
tee to lay out five-kilometre course,
which would be over entirely level
country, without houses or trees
had aroused the fears OF the French
airmen. 1t is over fve-kilometre
course that the Coup Internationale
d'Aviation, the premier air event OF
the meet, was to be flown. The for
eign flyers declared that the rules OF
the international society called for
an untrammelled course on which they
could alight at any point with perfect
safety.
The ive-k!lometre course at Bel.
mont Park takes In nearly the mile
and half of open cor 1try covered with
villages and trees on which II would
be impossible to alight in safety.
Further dissension among the fly
ers has resulted from the wreckage
Of Moisant's Bleriot and Grahame-
Whites Farman machines. yesterday.
The aviators say the officials notified
them that the velocity Of the wind
was but 25 miles an hour, when, as a
matter Of fact, It was more than fifty.
The flyers accuse the committee OF
attempting to deceive them to ap-
pease the waiting crowd In the grand.
stand.
'@ Screen Wildcat Stands.
The attempt Of the management tc
compel all persons who want to wit
ness tie flights to pay tribute, has
aroused a strong protest from the own
ers of adjacent property. Big poles
have cen raised, and supplementary
fences OF canvas, resembling the sails
of the racing yachts, have been placed
about the fences to shut OF the view
William E. Ellison, civil engineer and
surveyor, who has property In the
vicinity, has written to all Of the con
testants, telling them that II the OBJ
structions are not removed he will be
compelled by Legitimate and scenti
fic means to stop all flying outside OF
the reservation" Just how he will dc
this is not stated
eroklns First In Air.
The first flight Of the day was
made at noon by Walter Broohns In
the new Wright racer. The little
machine flashed through the air at
wonderful speed and under the per.
feet control of the aviator. Brookins
remained In the air only few mo-
ments, reaching an altitude OF about
450 feet. He said he had not pushed
the machine anywhere near the limit
Of its speed. and predicted that 1t
would be able to capture the Gordon
Bennett trophy without trouble. VIII.
bur Wright saw the flight and ex-
pressed great delight.
Cigarette An Essential.
Count Jacques De Lesseps ascend
ed In his Bleriot machine. but after
a Ave minutes fight he found he had
forgotten the most essential part OF
his equipment and alighted. After OBJ
tanning his cigarettes. he re-ascended
The count was attired In q baby-blue
aeroplane suit, a one-piece affair, re-
sembling a baggy union suit. 1t was
the niftiest creation" seen on the
field thus far.
Hoxey Passes Johnstone.
At 1:18, Hoxey, In Wright biplane
took the air and for twelve minutes
thrilled the crowd by his daring evolu
tions, making faster time than had
been witnessed heretofore.
Ralph Johnstone at 1923, In q
Wright biplane, followed his partner
into the air and exactly at 1880, when
the starting cannon announced the
beginning of the hourly duration con
test, the two flyers flashed across the
starting line, like race horses respond
ing to the flag, Hoxsey, flying about
150 feet above Johnstone, who was
about fifty feet from the ground
Hoxsey's machine soon proved the
speedier.
At 1880, Claude Grahame-White, In
the Farman biplane belonging to Cliff
ford b. Harmon, took the air, follow
ed by Armstrong Drexel In his Blerio'
and moment later j. J. Frisbie In a
Curtiss bipiane. For a moment there
were Ave flyers In the air at one time
Frisbie, however, did not have his ma
chine under control and descended
after less than one lap.