The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-16

Y hich he created last July AT Rheims,
will drive the higheSt-poWered ana
shortest winged Bleriot- He is re-
garded as the most dangerous COM
petitOr for the speed trophy. Count
de Lesseps, Emile Auburn and NJ
Simon. the French entrants for other
prizes. will use both Farman biplanes
and Bleriot monOplanes- The record
for height. S.409 feet. without doubt
will be exceeded by either Morane'
Walter BrOokins, the Wrights' high
flyer, or by Henry Weymann. the
American, whose stunts" have set
Europe talking. The incentive OF COM
petition will probably lead to the win
ming of a special prize of So, 600 for
the aviator who reaches 10000 feet
The team OF the Royal Aero club or
the United Kingdom is led by the dare
devil. Claude Grahame-White, whose
recent feats at the Boston tournament
gave him a national Introduction. 9th
er members OF the British team are
Alec Ogilvie and James Radley, two
flyers who have recently scared into
prominence.
Austria sends over TO compete for
other events than the speed trophy
the two most skillful of Austrian avia-
tors. Karl liner and Adolph Warcho-
-
derful flights over Vienna and other
cities with the Etritch machine. The
Austrian nobleman, Baron Eccnomo
and Count Kolowrat will compete with
Farman biplanes Italy will be repre-
sented by A. Cattaneo, one OF her most
noted flyers.
These foreign cracks must defeat
such remarkable airmen as Glenn H
/ Curtiss. Charles K. Hamilton. Walter
Brookins, John B. Moissant. ]. Arm
strong Drexel and others, who use the
Re stest types OF both American BIZ
planes and French monopianes.
No Advantage for Foreigners.
In daring and resOurcefulness, the
/ foreign aviators will have no advan-
tage over these flyers. For months
past the whole energy OF the Wrights
/ laboratory az Dayton. O.. and that OF
Curtiss at HammondspOTt. n. z, has
been centered in producing new ma
/ chimes and motors, designed to keep
j the speed trophy on this side Those
who are closest 10 these constructors
have confidently predicted that the
real surprise at the tournament will
be shown by a remarkable advance in
the American biplane.
The Wrights' preparations for COM
peting for the trophy have been most
I carefully guarded, but IL is definitely
known that withing the past two
months they. have been working Sc
cretly upon a new model plane which
II is expected viii astonish the world
Trials made al their Dayton, O..
plant with an aeroplane whosS lift
ing surface or wings. were cut to q
minimum, nearly resulted in serious
accident 10 Orville Wright. The ma
chine. which is driven by a 40 horse
power motor. developed such speed
that il got completely away from Or
Vile and crashed into fence It has
been repaired. however, and subse-
quent experiments show that It can be
depended upon 10 show phenomena
Il speed.
All the events will be flown undel
4 the rules OF the International Aeron-
auto federation. made up OF one aero
club from each country. all Other
clubs being affiliated with them. The
federated clubs include the Aero Clul
of America. New York: the Aero clut
de France. Paris; the Royal Aero Clut
of the United Kingdom, London; the
lDeutscher Luftschiffer Nerband
Berlin; the Austrian Aero club. vi.