The Daily Missoulian., 1910-01-12

of 81. miles lasted q minutes and L.
seconds.
. Curtiss all the time remained silent
and at work. Clad i'm oil-spotted
working clothes, an old cap and shoes
that had seen heavy duty, he spent
his time tuning up the 3-cylinder mo-
tor on the blplane with which he won
the international cup at Reims. Not
once did he look at what Paulhan
was doing in the air. But when the
fourth flight of the Farman machine
had ended. his mechanicians trundIed
the machine to the starting point.
Without preliminary of any sort he
motioned to Fancuilli to get in the
machine. Climbing in beside his man
ager. Curtiss gave the word to one of
his assistants. A pop and rattle like
automatic artillery and the flight that
established the passenger speed record
began. Describing n wide circle in
front Of the grandstand. Cnrtiss flew
with Fancuilli at all angles 10 the
wind and landed almost at the same
spot from which he started.
Lieutenant Paul Beck of the army
signal corps. and one of the judges.
announced that he figured the speed
at 81 miles an hour. When the record
breaking figures We're announced the
tremendous crowd went wild. Shouts
and screams rose from the boxes and
tiers of seats, automobile sirens
shrieked and hats We're thrown up in
the air to be blown away by the
wind. Paulhan standing beside his
biplans on the other side of the field
saw the performance through binoc-
uiars. These he dropped suddenly and
gesticulating as he ratified off instrnc-
tions to his crew of mechanicians, set
them to get his motor started imme-
diateiy. Then he mounted his seat
and rose maiestically. At the same
time Willard and Hamilton brought
their machines To the starting place in
front of the grandstand Directly
after they got into the air. Cnrtiss took
Clifford Harmon. the New York sports
man and balloonist, into the seat he
side him and rose again on another
flight with passenger.
All four aaroplanes in the air at
once presented thrilling sight that
sent the crowd into renewed frenzy
Paulhan landed in few minutes and
determined to regain some of his lost
lanrels. ordered one Of his assistants
into the seat with him. Then he arose
and twice circled the course. his great
biplane soaring as gracefully with the
extra man as il had done with Paul
han alone
In quick succession CurIiss tried for
starting record and a record for
landing. He succeeded in establish
ing both. But Willard coming next
to the trial at landing. beat the best
his chief could do. Curtiss. however.
set a new record for getting away to
make up for the landing honor he lost.
He started from n marked square of
10 feet. flew about the field for two
minutes. and returning. landed ex-
actly in the same spot.
Paulhan tried to beat both marks,
but the best he could do was to rise
1ais seconds from the time his engine
started. and his machine ran more
than 100 feet along the ground before
it rose. The .trin with Cur,iss was
the first flight Harmon has ever
made in an aeroplane. although he
owns the one that was given its first
trial yesterday. Harmon was SO
pleased with the experience that he
determined to make a flight alone.
W sVaS Sac Sportsman
his machine. though without giving
any information of his intention, he
fixed II SO that it could not rise from
the ground. This was done at the re-
quest of Commodore c. C BENEDICT of
New York. who yesterday offered Har-
mon the price o: 10 aeroplanes If he
would not go ur. Wizards coup pre-
vented the sportsman from experience
ing more than a rapid run along the
ground for several hundred feet
Run q Race.
To complete. the days events. Roy
Hnabenshue and Lincoln Beachey in
dirigibies rose from the ground both
at the same time and gaining height
of about 800 feet while Tying into the
wind. turned together and began a
race with the wind at their backs.
Knabenshue. higher by q feet than
Beachey. won the race by two lengths.
when the course OF 1000 feet had been
covered.