The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-30

ia 1t so far as the others Of the party
could see. but the bird men were quick
to notice the freakish zephyr. The
nyiators scanned the tops Of the hills
round about Moanalua field and com.
mented on several soft spots to light
on in case there should come up a blow
while Mars is doing the spiral glide
from high attitudes. Lewis broke a
rear axle of his automobile in turning
around and everybody got out to
watch him fX IT, This occasioned some
a lay, but Lewis worked himself Ont Of
breath aud before long the aviators
were en- flight for the Pali
Air Garages Wanted.
When Wilbur Wright started to mon
key with machine birds some seven or
eight years ago he could 1op over the
ground like a highly elated rooster, and
when he got so he could fit about in
the air. he thought he had realized
the dream of centuries, and so he had,
but it is still that Hopping against the
earth in the getaway and the alighting
that presents the most serious problem.
If the machines could be garaged in
the air and have elevators to connect
10 with them, it would be all right,
and everybody might realize the dreams
of centuries.
In 1896 a German engineer by the
name of Otto Lilienthal succeeded in
sailing through the air by means of n
glider which he built and he was killed
by falling from his wingg He was the
first martyr to aviation.
On December II, 1908 Wilbur Wright
succeeded in flying $50 feet in a BIZ
plane of his own construction. This is
the first biplane fight of record. He
accomplished the then marvellous feat
at Kitty Hawk North Carolina, in 80
seconds.
On October % of this year Maurice
Tabuteau covered n distance of 2S9
miles in continuous flight in a Farman
bipane. This feat, however, has been
surpassed carrying a passenger. On
the seventeenth and the eighteenth OF
the same month Henry Wynmalen, the
Dutch aviator, flew from Paris Il
Brussels and back with a passenger
The distance is about $50 miles anC
the flight was made in fifteen hours
thirty.eight minutes and twenty-eigh
seconds. The aviator who accomplished
this feat received a prize of $4,000
from the municipal council of Paris.
In March, 1908, Leon Delagrangr
took the f st passenger up in biplane
Henry Farman accompanied the avia
tor for four hundred foot fligh
which was accomplished in three sec
Onds.
The first woman to fly was Mile
Therese Pietier. She went up with De
lagrange at Turin, Italy, on July s
1903, and then few a distance of tiv
hundred feet.
On April 80 of this year Roge- Sam
ner took up the 'ecord number of pas
sengers Three men and one woma
I accompanied him on high rear Moul
melon, France. The con- bined weigh
of this human freight was just fort
pounds less than the weight of the b
| plane, and the party stayed rp fv
minutes.
Lieutenant Fequant made the bet
! speed record for long distance tigf
! with passengers. He took two me
along and flew from Chalons to Vii
cennes, distance of one hundred ar
4 five miles and half II two hours al
half.
Grahame- White holds the sustaint
need record of siXty-two and one'ten'
y miles in sixty-one minutes four al
three one-hundredth seconds. This WI
when he won the GordonBennett en-
HI average speed was sixty and Gig
one.hundredths miles an hour.
Aviator Hamilton has beaten tn
: she d over folr mile course He mnt
t5e distance on the ,cond of tn
month in t. ee minutes and one secon
NAL ing his average speed seventy nj
and two-tenths miles an hour
LIE Blanc made an average speed
sixty-six and a half miles an hour oV
circuitous course. The first lap W
: done at rate of seventy miles an hot
The distance Travelled, in nineteen laI
was fftv nine. and thirty.seven on
=, hundredths miles, and the elapsed til
was fifty-two minutes, forty-nine a.
u three one-hundredths seconds.
5 John Moisant, the Chicago await,
made the record crosscountry speed
{ the Belmont Park aviation meet Ia
: October. He went from the park ne
;, Mineola fair grounds over the borou
= Of Brooklyn, city of New York, GRO
= ing the inner bay of New York haIb
- encircled the Statue of Liberty on b
,s lows Island and returned to Belmc
q Park. at Mineola. The distance reco
Is "a was thirty-four miles and Moisf
It covered it in thirty-four minutes a
If hirtyeight seconds.
rs Two years ago Wilbar Wright M
% the altitude record of three humid
n ana sixty feet. This was accomplish
at Auvours, France, in a sixty-m
flight on December IS, 1908. RAJ
,, Johnstone, who was recently killed
fall, went up 97l4 feet at the /
"a mont Park meet and this record '
al inst beaten by Hoxsey, who reached
v altitude of l. AGA feet at Los Ange
1t on Monday Of this week. It took Ra
So Johnstoue ninety minutes to reach
is altitude of 97l4 feet, and he ca
H. down in ten minutes. His engine W
es dead and he coasted down the air, j
n manner termed volplaning in the az
n, nautical vocabulary, at the rate of
re hundred miles an hour.
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