New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
MARS PLANE WON'T MOVE.
Photographers and Mechanics
Fail to Bulge Machine.
HUMIDITY GETS A BOOST
Curtiss Says It Makes Difference
of 25 Per Cent IN Success
of Flight.

I & Mars neralded for some time now
as an imminent star in the breezeless blue,
sat in his aeropIane at the Sheepshead Bay
racetrack yesterday while the silv'ry moon
was gathering power
Power was what the young imminent star
Mars needed. lie did not lack anything
personally. He was ready TO fly Several
hundred persons who had waited since
o'clock sympathized with him in that
Mars was going TO take up Mrs Mars and
some women and men newspaper reporters
but first he thought he would Try it out on
Augustus Post
Mr.. Post Is q professional aeronauhc stu
dent preparing to aviate into the amateur
fyrnan's class beginning at the Curtlss
meet Beginning. that is, to-day and con-
tinuing through Sunday
L was in line. therefore. with Mr- Post 8
ambition that he should have ii tried on
hin. and so he sat in cTamped posliloll
At AIars's left while photographers attacked
Mars and Post from the front and me
cl7a-;c- nullad at the propeller at the rear
Of the beautiful machine
Aren't YOU afraid for Mr.. Mars? Mrs
Mars was asked while the clicking Oh
car,e-ae vas seemingly everywhere and
r. +ou weeds bent under the insistent
spanking Of the twin propeller blades
M. oh. nv. no. If everything goes up
I'll -5eb+ with Mr.. Post aboard then MI
Mars IS going 70 take me, and 1t viii Do
nv first airship ride" she said
ono wondered why Mrs. Mars could SO
IN ,,o,,+ain herself when her sometimes
avine husband and the just looming MI
=. ,,,,-,ned higher than two men ever
I,,r,,ed before while still they clung 70
- ,,,v,boo vbeeibar-ow. which method
o.1,, e+-,,ck all the low as well as hlgh
Ta,as-a,,d there are as many high as low
,.,es- throughout the length Of the inner
field
81 borr later M. Curtiss said some
-t-f-,q vas tf4a matter with the spark pug
and that Mars would be il fine trim THIS
a<+a-ooor. when the real show "ould oe-
gin. NJ
E,,rana E1v followed Mars and MI
Pee dying above the hillocks Of the heio'
doirg well against twelve-mile "lno' Out
attempting no turn
/ vas the first flying Of the day. and 1t
,,-.e r7ov- evening No one could conipla4il
of ANYTHING TO anybody in authority
oa,,sa axcept for a few newspaper rePoi !
&C asked TO indulge in couple OF oo|ei
&c ,ides. the spectators were unlnVl1eu-
Yesterday was tuning day
NJ Fl,, waited fifteen minutes and LneI
eo,,, t,acl- 20 the starting point, MAINTAIN
i-,, an even keel at a height OF H11eei
feet -
NJ Curtiss was the only aviator 10
circle the field. and he did so in an eAp
manner in a wind that he after"aIu "e
acribed as one Of the worst encounter e'
in his crowded career.
y was not go strong. he said. but Fari-
.b,e In the matter Of winds he preIerre'
steady thlrty-rlile one TO slower 7''
with variations.
Also ne could wish, he said. for more
,,,,,,fditv .nan obtained YESTERDAY
..t4uo7idItv has a great deal 10 DO "r'h
.,,a success OF a fight" said Mr Cur'isS
"a the reporters. in apologizing for the
moor showing OF the trials
..rr rhe percentage OF moisture n the
,.r,osphere is low = is much more difflcuil
"a A. The engine gives less power. the
,ropeller gives less fhrust and the sur
faces have less lifting effect"
He added that there We're places IN the
west where he had found Il almost i'm
rosstble 10 ny at all. but that sheepshead
nav struck him as a favorable spot.
The curtiss aviators to appear al the
sheepshead track during the next three
DAYS. beginning this afternoon. in add
,;on 70 Curtiss himself. win he J. c Mars
Charles p. Willard. }. 4. n MeCurdy and
Eugene Ely
Talking on humidity and fight at
Washington. a few DAYS ago. DR. A F.
Zahrrl. an expert IN aeronauticaI theory,
said
IT would Dc WRONG 10 assume that the
propeller gives materially Jess thrust at