The San Francisco call., 1910-12-14
AVIATOR PREDICTS
SUCCESSFUL MEET
Glenn Curtiss Believes New
Records viii Be Made
at TanfOran
Birdman Declares Wireless
Messages Can Be Sent
From AerOpIanes

That the San Francisco meet would
break all records in aviation was the
opinion expressed yesterday by Glenn
H. Curtiss, one of Americas foremost
aeroplane inventors and flyers. Curtiss
was in town Just long enough to have
a talk with Lieutenant Paul W. Beck on
the coming meet at Tanforan. The two
location of grandstands, hangers, py-
Ions. judges stands and the methods of
handling the crowds.
Curtiss left last evening with C. J.
Mars and Charles Willard to partici-
pate in the aviation meet at Fresno.
Curtiss seemed to be wrapped up in
the possibilities of aircraft for purposes
Of war.
He is anxious to have the federal
government establish station for
aviators and has offered personally to
instruct commissioned men in the art
OF flying. He expects to locate a per-
manent aerodrome in the southern part
of the state in the near future
Speaking Of the feasibility Of sending
and receiving wireless messages from
aeroplanes, Curtiss said:
1t is perfectly practicable to utilize
mas
already been tried over short distances
from one of my machines with complete
success. I am confident 1t will be pos
sible to work up to 90 miles distance.
This will be a record and I am sure that
II will be made here
Il cannot quite see what particular
benefit will be derived from shooting
a rife from an aeroplane, although it
hes spectacular features, but the pro-
posal to conduct bomb dropping ex-
periments from a heavier than air ma
chine. using scientific fire control meth
DDS. is the most decided advance made
in the aggressive use of such craft in
warfare, and from the description of
the method to be adopted, it can not
fail to be a complete success. I think
this will make the nations of the world
sit up and take notice that the aero
plane is a most important factor in
war.
'As to landing on the deck of war
vessel, 1 am confident that any of my
aviators can do the trick, provided the
naval authorities construct a landing
platform in accordance with plans
which / viii draw up and provided the
vessel sails in the direction and at a
speed designated by me-"
When interrogated as to the relative
speed Of the machines which are COM
ing here, Curtiss said:
They are all about equal in speed.
You can't tell who will win, but I'll
say this much: I expect to see the
altitude record broken, owing to the
atmospheric conditions here, and I
think we have a machine which may do
the trick Willard is our height fiend
and he is training his machine to climb
to attitudes never before reached.
You have the ground, you have the
climate, you have the public spirit
to promote meets here. Why don't you
make such events annual occurrences? ?
We can not fly in the east during the
winter months. We can fly here Why
don't you go ahead and provide for
future years by right now perfecting
for an annual meet? It
viii bring hundreds of thousands to
your city annually and It will adver-
tise your winter climate as nothing
else can.
There is no use to argue that the
novelty will be worn off such meets.
While that may be in part true, this
novelty will speedily be replaced by a
series Of new developments, which will
continue for many years, for flying is
still in its infancy"