The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-09-02

have been the heaviest losers IN
life OF any of the nations interest.
cd in a%eronautics. Half a score OF
daring and temperamental renon
men have paid with their lives tne
nenal for venturing into the Sky
spaces on frail machines OF sllk' alu'
minum and piano wire. The Germans
are the next heaviest losers IN NC
and property. The wrecklng OK tHo
numerous rigid end semi-rigid diriglo1es
If the Zeppelin and Parseval types mas
b,+ hard the hackers Of the German
idea In aeronautics. The casua.'io'
for the year 1909 were terminated ny
the death of the Spanish aviator yer
nandez, at Nice, on December y. he
was a martyr to the idea OF ngh.n7ss
IN a~erop,ane construction. HIS oeaeh
was undoubtedly caused by trying u
Av with a motor that was entirely TOO
lieht for the strain It had TO Dsar !,
ing his determined flights. WINE
sweeping in great circles over -
aviation grounds of the French Guy
the tiny motor gave way with a spHe'
ting crash. The watchers turned tne1r
heads a yay while the swift TALL lasted
In spite of the warning conveyed IN
his death, many aviators even yet arc
sacrificing safety for lightness IN tne"
| engines. Delagrange, who was Killed
IN the first week of January, 1Slo'
made the opposing mistake OF having
an engine whose weight was too great
for his wing area. His planes were
not sufficiently large to bear up uhoef
the weight of his heavy motor. when
under the strain Of full flight. Deia'
grange was the first aviator 10 carry
a Messenger with him in his aeTlai
trims. Mrs. Pettier. the first woman
Messenger In the history of the aero
nlane. made a flight with him IN july
1908.
After the death Of Delagrange. the
first few months of 1910 were deVolo
of fatal accidents. Aviation meetlnss
, were going on late in the winter III
America, southern Europe ana III
Fgypt. It was April in the present
wear before LIE Blon was killed on tne
Spanish seacoast at San Sebastian.
LIE Blon was the idol OF the more oar
ing aviators. He had attracted lnteE'
national attention by his remarkable
flights at Doncaster, England, late I'D
October of the previous year. he mad
dared the winds to do their worst III
q 15-mile flight on October 10. and on
the next day he made a trip that al
aviators. even his nervous fellow
countrymen, characterized as 1901
hardy. A greet gale blew up OUT o.
the Atlantic on the night OF OCTOBER
IS. growing steadily worse through
the night of the nineteenth. 1t wa
the sort that sweeps the tight lNtie
island" every autumn. a terrific Do
that comes roaring up the channe
from the Atlantic, sending hshermel
and channel shipping scurry1ng 10
!. shelter in some ~rock-bound haroor.
In the midst of this great gale sn'
~Frenchman announced that he wa
going to make a flight. In aeronau
: tical records the flight that he MAD
!, that day is set down as being a ioo
!, hardy flight in a great gale.'
: The death roll has grown raploi
;, IN this. the summer Of 1910. On Ma
II Michelin was carried by a stron!
9 wind against a derrick. and In the Ia
that followed sustained injuries ina
caused his death. Eugene Spler wa
9 killed at San Francisco while p1a.
Using on a glider" M. Rooi me. ~
death in a meet at Stettin. Wacnte
was killed at Reims. Charles Stewai
Rolls. hero OF England by reason 6
n his remarkable fight from Dove I
y Calais and return. was killed AZ oou
nemouth through a rudder OF MS ""
invention falling to answer tne ~
n. Kinet. a Belgian, met his death duT'n
q recent aviation exhibition IN
N French town. Eugene Ely, while u
w inc for the third time to make a COZ
" tinuous fight from Winnipeg TO For
age la Prairie, fell from a nelen.
n several hundred feet and was klue
"A The dirigibles nave been the occ
m sion Of nine of the twenty-five
ve deaths of the last two years. =
september 25, 1909, the French WI
OF balloon, the Republique. on It's W.
n Meudon from the field maneuve'
a at La Palisse, was destroyed, su
he possibly by a propeller blade breaKii
off and ripping open the walls OF u
a craft. Four men were killed IN u
ed fall OF 400 feet, that followed the UT
be collapse of the dirigible. In the 9
rk struction of the Erbsloeh, at Lelc
ar. lingen, Germany, a few days ago. n
en- men, including the inventor. met the
ir. doom.