The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-20


passengers, one at a time on short
flights, Louis Paulhan today estab-
ished a new worlds record for hea-
vier than air machines.
No other aviator has taken up so
many passengers during one day and
no other aviator has taken woman
for a high flight over fields and woods
and villages and hungry surf, for more
than 20 miles. Paulhan sailed at an
altitude of from 500 to 1000 feet over
Redondo Beach, Venice-by-the Sea
and other resorts toward Point Fir
min. There were no life preservers
tied to the machine to save them from
death in the waves should they fall.
He made the trip and the other peril
Gus flights of the afternoon with the
ease of a run to your club in a taxi
cab.
The passenger carrying record is
held by Orville Wright, who flew with
Captain Engelhardt for one hour and
35 minutes at Berlin last fall, but
Wright did not leave the course,
where he could land at will
Takes Wife As Passenger.
Paulan was gone 33 minutes on this
% mile trip. He had his wife as pas
senger His ten mile trip was made
with Clifford B. Harmon OF New
York. Besides these he took up Mrs.
Cortlandt F. Bishop, wife of President
Bishop of the Aero Club of America,
Lieutenant Paul Beck of the United
States army signal corps, William
Randolph Hearst, the newspaper pub
| tell
The flights were made under per-
feet atmospheric conditions. Earlier
in the afternoon 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 coat and
helped his wife up to her high perch.
Then he flew out over the grandstand
to give the big crowd greetings. With
their cheers of delight sounding faint
ly 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 curtain
ed the Pacific. A few minutes later
he disappeared behind a telegraph
wire, as it appeared through the field
glasses. He was again giving an
exhibition of something for which the
world has waited for centuries.
DirigibIes in Flight.
The dirigible balloons entertained
the crowd while waiting for Paulhans
temperance. Several times it was
cried that he was coming but it was
found that it was only a bird. The
Frenchman was chasing the sea gulls
away from their haunts.
At $50 o'clock Paulhan again came
into sight and at o'clock he landed
directly in front of the grandstand He
received wild applause and was taken
down the narrow aisle of frantic peo-
pie so that they could get a good
look at him.
AS he was in an amiable mood he
was beseiged with pleas to take friends
up. He returned to his machine and
began this part of the program.
Lieutenant Beck on his tripss 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 benefit Of
the army The result is that gun
pits may have to be covered to pro-
tect them from aerial enemies in a
time of war.
While Lieutenant Beck was not sue
cessful in placing the bombs within
the square, they did not land far
away and it was demonstrated that
the aeroplane could be used for this
purpose and that it was only lack of
practice to place bombs where wanted
Harmon Flies With Paulhan.
Paulhan's last flight with Mr.. Har-
mon, was not made until o'clock.
Again he disappeared in the direc
ton of the ocean and he did go to
the shore. He returned after circling
the fields in the west, an approximate
distance of II miles, made in little
over 20 minutes.
The other aviators did not accom-
plish much. Charles K. Hamilton
made three starts in an attempt to
break Paulhan's altitude record of A.,
165 feet. On his first trial Hamilton
rose ASS feet, on his second 800 feet
and on his third approximately 700
ceeded this without any effort at rec
ord breaking. Hamilton'S machine
was not working well enough to en-
him to go higher on the spiral
pathway.
The Gill-Dosch machine met with
an accident that eliminates it from
any work tomorrow. This is an AM
erican machine owned by H. w. Gill
of Baltimore. 1t has been tested out
several times, but each time 1t has
met with trouble. This time the trOu-
BILE was serious. AT height of from
80 to 100 feet it circled the field once
and then came down with a crash
that wrecked it's left plane. Hillary
Beachey, the driver, was not injured.
Glenn H. Curtiss made two appear
ances The first time he went round /,
the course three times and the second +
time he tried for a speed record. His
lap was 2:19, seven seconds from the
record.
Tomorrow is the last day of the
meet Curtiss will go to Hammonds-
port, n Y, to start work on a new