The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-30
Three Licensed Bird Men
Arrive and Inspect
MoanaIua Field.
tErom "wednesday Advertlser.l


Licensed pilots of the air arrived
yesterday from the mainland by the
Matson steamship Wilhelmina, and
few hours later their mechanics had
unfolded the wings OF their mechanical
birds to stretch them out in preparation
for the series of flights they will make
next Saturday, Sunday and Monday
from the Moanalua polo field. j. Z.
(Bud) Mars, Capt. Thomas Baldwin
and Tod Schriver, aviators whose names
are world-famous, are the three man
birds who will pit their machines
against the unknown air currents above
the island of Oahu.
Each aviator carries a license as
pilot of the air, issued by the Aero
Club of America, licenses which give
them the right, under the auspices of
the famous club, to traverse the almost
limitless spaces above the earth, but,
despite the fact that the air limits
are almost unfathomable, the height to
which these mechanical birds may as
cend is really limited.
Applauded Hoxsey's Feat.
The aviators were told on arrival Of
the feat of Hoxsey at Los Angeles, as
contained in special cablegram to
The Advertiser, i'll reaching an attitude
of II ,494 feet.
"Bully for him." chorused the bird
men. And they showed that they were
keenly delighted with HoXey's record
breaking ascension.
"Sure, there s u limit to an altitude
fight of heavier-than-air machine,
said Captain Baldwin. "You see when
It rl, tbara q
no air resistance and you can't get
a foot hold to climb any more. Your
engine fails to carry you any higher.
When you re down lower your machine
can be worked against the air resist
ance. but when you get up in the rec
ord, breaking section there s nothing to
help you go higher.
But the bird men are here and they
are ready to make their flights. With
Hall, the advance man who came here
a week ago, there are four man birds
in town. Dainty little Mrs. Mars is
a high-hyer also, and has been cup"
with her daring young husband twice.
81 would like to go up oftener,
said Mrs. Mars, "but I'm not permit
ted to have my way-always.
Magnificent Field, but
soon dlbtI dTElNdl gColtludy -hdi9i
Baldwin and Schriver were taken out
to the polo field by Hall, and shown
the place where they are expected to
start from. They found that the field
for exhibition purposes, or at least from
the standpoint of the spectator, can
not be excelled. 1t is a magnificent
field, say all of them, but from their
own standpoint, the field presents diff
ticulties which the layman would not
appreciate.
First of all, in spite of the fact that
the field is very large one, there is
only barely enough room for them to
commence their maneuverings.
'The moment we rise from the
field,p said Mars, "we have got to
begin to fly, in order to meet the air
currents there. AS a general thing we
have a chance to rise and fiutter around
bit, but at the Moanalua field we
have to begin maneuvering at once,
on account of the hills about us. F"
But that apparently does not bother
the man birds. They say they expect
to meet all sorts of difficulties, all sorts
of weather and air conditions, and
while the air currents here are differ
ent, possibly, from any of those they
have encountered elsewhere, 1t is moth
ing more than they could expect,
Mars VIII Be swifter.
Not content with being one of the
most daring ehauieurs of the air, one
of the swiftest, Mars intends TO take
on a little more of the swift element
while he is In Honolulu. On Friday
night he will become one OF the Best
People on Earth, by initiation into Ho'
nOluu Lodge dld, Benevolent and Pro
teetiye order of Elks, A special Sos
sion will be held for Mars and when he
flies ON Saturday he viii wear the FIN 81
emblem A the FIN Is said 90 be one
0f the swlftest animals which course
the earth, Mars may derive little of
he speed 20 use in tho heavenly no.
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