The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-11

agaln and completed the course.
 Curtiss. using the machine with which he had made the previous flight circled the field. an estimated distance of one and one-eighth miles, in 1:51. His maximum altitude was 200 feet.
 Lincoln Beachey and Roy Knaben- shue appeared with their dirigible bal looms, sailing directly over the grand. stand at a height of 200 feet. against stiff breeze, and returning at high speed, with the wind at their backs. The dirigibles-frail looking cigar shaped affairs-were under the com plete mastery of the two pilots, who directed their course as they willed and descended to earth without a jar. Before this time the crowd had begun to inquire for Paulhan.
 We can't do anything with that Frenchman,' said Dick Ferris, master of ceremonies. "He pays no atten- ticn to rules and regulations, nor to the course laid out or the flights I wouldn't be surprised to see him ap- pear suddenly in his machine through the top of his tent"
 That was almost what Paulhan did While the spectators were watching the flight of the dirigibles, Farman biplane was taken quietly fnom the Paulhan tent down into a gully hidden from the ciew of those at the start ing stretch Just when Knabenshue and Beachey were passed over the grandstand on their return and when every neck was eraned backward there was a sudden should and out of the g ully shot Paulhan, the motor of his Farman hunlming at a tremendous rate.
 He swung around the course and came down before the grandstand at high speed. He gesticulated first with his right hand and then his left and at time he let go the steering wheel and waved both arms and shouted to the multitude.
 Circling the full course once, Paul han then began a second round, but stepped at the half way pole to cut across the field straight for the grand stand. Suddenly veering, he describ. ed another circle, finally disappear. ing from view to the north behind the grandstand
 He scared this way and then that, in the adjacent country, again head. ing directly for the stand, which he cleared from behind, passing only a few feet above the topmost row of seats and shouting greetings to the lodging crowd beneath. Passing out on the field, the machine desceided in front of Paulhan's quarters.
 Paulhan had remained in the air eight and half minutes and sailed three and three -fourths miles. His highest attitude was 150 feet.
 While the dirigibles were preparing for their second flight, the irrepressi. ble Frenchman decided to start upon anothed journey Covering the full course in 2:O7 2-5, he started around again and neared the starting point just as Knabenshue's balloon had caught the wind at the end of the stretch and was coming along at high speed. Paulhanis aeroplane shot up. ward and soon was abreast and direct. ly over the dirigible.
 The two craft raced with the wind at their backs. that of the French. man soon distancing the big gas bag. Continuing his flight at high speed Paulhan gave thrilling exhibition of his control. He darted this way and that, ascended suddenly and shot downward until it seemed that he must surely wreck his aeroplane on the earth.
 Where groups of men had gatheded on the field he scattered them with dips of the machine. Once he head. ed directly for the grandstand, waiting until almost upon it before pointing the bow of his craft upward and skimming just above the heads of the crowdL Throughout he besticulated with his hands and shouted in "a Ian guage understood by his countrymen alone.
 In his second flight he remained Up ten minutes and two seconds. deach- ing a height of 400 feet and travel ing about four and a half miles. Tn descending he just cleared the top pf his own tent from the rear. alight. ing a short distance from the entrance
 Tn his third flight Paulhan ~ directly in front of the grand Id passed over it and turned back to the official course, where he rose to a height of 300 feet
 Covering the m ile and a half in 2:5s, he took another shoot into the