Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-20
CURT|SSHASE ENOUGH
Will Stop Flying Till He Has
Bigger, Better Airship.
ABANDONS SAN DIEGO PRIZE
New Endurance Machine to Be I'm
mense Biplane
PAULHAN DOES GREAT STUNTS
Sails, With Wife, Over Sea and
Takes Up Four Other Passengers.
He Will Make Big Tour.

| LOS ANGELES. Cal, January 20
with the end of the aviation meeting al
hand, Glenn ii. Curtiss made it known
today that he had no Intention of max
ing a flight to San Diego for the five
| thousand-dollar prize offered by the bust
| ness men of that city.
Hamilton may attempt the flight if he
| remains over for a day or two said
Jerome FanciUlli. manager for Curtiss
"Curtiss will leave tonight for Ham.
mondsport'
BY many at the aviation field this was
taken to mean that Curtiss doubts the
ability of the biplane he has here to
make flight over the mountains and
across the bays and inlets of the sea
that lie on the airline route to San
Diego. This assumption was strength
ened by the further announcement that
as soon as Curtiss finishes with his an
pearance in court. in connection with the
infringement suits instituted by the
Wrights, he will begin constructing an
immense flying machine of the bplane
type.
With this he might definitely force into
second place the rival Farman's biplane,
hands of the spectacular pilot Paulhan,
has demonstrated superiority in endur-
| ance.
According to Fanciulli. the proposed BIZ
plane Will have an immense spread o
flying surface, and new fabric will be
used that will offer great resistance e
the air. The motor however. will be OF
the same four-cylinder. Twenty-Five horse
power type that is used on the machines
here.
Those motors. Fanciull asserts, are
sufficiently powerful to drive the new
endurance machine. They are the light.
est motors yet developed. They weigh
something less than eiShty-tive pounds
each.
Paulhan Going to San Francisco.
The announcement of Edmund Cleary
Paulham's manager, that arrangements
are made for exhibitions in San Fran
cisco makes it practically certain tina,
the famous French aviator will be seen
in Sacramento, Salt Lake City and St
Louis.
There is strong possibility that he
Will also go to Denver and New Orleans
before he starts on the globe irdlins
tour Terms are being discussed.
Before the French aviatOrS leave, they
with Cortlandt Field Bishop and the
dirigible pilots. Knabenshue and Beachey
will go to Pasadena where they will be
the guests of Prof Thaddeus s. c. Lowe
who made a long distance balloon record
in 1861 that still stands.
Prof. Lowe is about to begin the con-
strnction of a giant dirigible of an origi-
nal type, which he asserts will have a
lifting power of twenty tons. The en-
velope will be spherical but the carriage
below will be shaped like boat.
There will be two propellers, one to
drive the airship backward or forward
and the other to lift or lower it. Prof
Lowe has devised a fabric which he de-
clares will retain gas sufficient to main
tain the ship In the air for two months.
Paulhan Does New Things.
twenty-two-nile cross-country trip from
Aviation Field to point half a mile over
the ocean and back, by taking another
passenger on twelve-rnile flight over
the fields. and by taking four other pas
sengers, one at time. on short flights
Louis Paulhan yesterday established new
worlds records for heavier-than-air fly
ing machines.
No other aviator has taken up so many
passengers In one day. and no other avi-
ator has taken woman for high
flight over fields and woods and villages
and surf for more than twenty miles.
Paulhan flew at an altitude of from
800 to 1000 feet over Redondo Beach,
Venice-by-the- Sea- and other resorts to-
buoys tied to the machines to save them
should they fall
The passenger-carrying record is held
by Orville Wright, who flew with Capt.
EnSlehardt for one hour and thirty-five
minutes at Berlin last fall, but Wright
did not leave the course.
Paulhan's Big Days Work.
Paullan flew thirty-three minutes on
his twenty-two-mile trip with his wife.
His twelve-mie trip was made with Cliff
ford B. Harmon Of New York. Besides
these. he took up Mrs. Cortlandt r.
Bishop, wife of President Bishop Of the
Aero Club of America: Lieut.. Paul Beck
of the United States Army Signal Corps.
William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper
publisher. and newspaper reporter.
At 2:27 o'clock Paulhan. after putting
on his yellow cloak and helping his wife
to her high perch. flew out over the
grandstand. He left the course on his
next lap and headed for the ocean. In
ten minutes he had become blur against
the sunlit clouds that curtained the Pa
cific.
At 80 o'clock Paulhan again came in
sight. and at o'clock he landed direct
ly in front of the grandstand. He was
carried down ire narrow aisle of frantic
people SO that all could get good look
at him.
AS he was in an amiable mood, he was
besieged with pleas to take up friends.
He returned to his machine and began to
run an aerial bus line.
Lieut.. Beck. on his trip, took dummy
bombs and attempted to drop them from
a height to measured place on the
ground. This was a test made for the
benefit of the army. While Lieut.. Beck
was not successful in placing the bombs
within the square, they did not land far
away.
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