The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-07-12
How BTOOkirs
Flew {, 3 Is Feet
ltcontlnueu Ersm Paae lone.l

eSSsy ~ - Esygni eltllSl. 1hG sSuIll-Wti ar
a dreadful thing. Ny knees knocked
together as fast rs they would go q. nd
L could tcel It on my cheeks and my
ears. Ny teeth cllattered till / thought
IA never get them stopped again.
The air was getting rare. too. !
ynwned and yawned, and painted az
pre1thed. Q sort OF prolonged sTasii
tNery tting ] inhaled. 4 grew SILL
rlore conscious OF how utterly alone 4
was and the pounding Of tie engine
became an awful racket. It was list
at my elbow and there was no other
noise In the whole universe.
Then my enipe slipped twog explo
sions, | was over the Heinz Peir.
looked down to see. When that hap
pened l did three things at once !
iooke Cd ut tile watch on the framework.
IN front Of me and saw that I hhc
been gone the hour I had been aIlor
Ell for climbing I looked at my aner,
Old barometer and saw TINT hart
gone up the G.100 feet Knabenshue
hal tod ne ] had to 20. 7 looked NJ
my gasoline gauge and saw that thu
indicator was smack against the bot
tom.
Hadn't Touched the Base Line. H.
Il had been swinging MI this time fnr
the base line b.nt i knew T hadn't
touched 1t. and yet there l was wit
the indicator showing that I had GO
TO the bottom OF my gasoline tnnp
That's the one mistake l made--r
forgot IN put any more Juice In after
I came down from my first fli"hs.
| was still going inward when mr.
motor skipped but had TO bring mr.
self down to a level 80 that .hegasr
line would flow back from tho curne,
INTO Which It had been tilted to tt.
INTO which 1t had been tilted t., to-
centre where. the gauge won1d catch
y. fell while wns dom thotg, and
IT. was Just as 7 fell that / got across
the base line. The Instruments SHOW
od mo G.20O feet up: then ti,t. correc
ton TO G.751 was due to the aliowanc,
thai had to be made for the locati,p
~ the Instruments, but I had bee,
90 ifct above that point when GO
to my apex.
I hid q lot OF trouble with that has,
line The yatcn that was to mark IL
had been moved, or couldn't see n
AL u srM lrul ss5nS 1stul au1 an
when saw; tba. / would have to &c.
bv the rier could barely make It orr
1t was hard tn lose that 1n0 feet f.
rntting back to n level. and to have.
to cross the base line on thai, Inre'
wncn had been so much higher. Ono.
hundred feet Is aprctty considerable
'listancn to losr whom YOU have climb
nI n fpr ~ z h,1
The Deccnt
9''t ! hnG done enough for ono ilnv
anyhow Ind gone MS far MS / had,
made un my mind to 20 Ind gons
nearly 200 foot higher tnpr hnI
anne before, which was EN0feet hi.hn
than any other man had ever gone "
n heavier thin air machine, so start
ed for home
I went In wide circles ut nr't, Jcnt
ting two or three Of them. can"
remember, which. until ] got dow
about 500 feet The reading Coffyr
took from the beach showed that 7
was down to $3.50 feet when shu'
OF my power and bexan to coast
care on In those wide circles unti'
was about $500 feet M. and then
instead Of the wide circles came OF
in one sharp turn
When was still G00 feet M saw
the Million Dollar Pier below me.
WIS still so well iont 1T sna TINT ] In:
Ito come i,isharnly.iand that was where
] m'dc my bank that brought mo i,
to the beach. Just MS I niclicd nut TIL.
place where would land turned 0n
NY power again. End II they hnh .ttc,l
the rail would have sternnT out o.,
tho vcrv snot from which rose
think what did last evening show
a number Of interesting things. That
machine will go lust exactly n, high
rs Its supply Of gasoline Will take
It. That was all that stoned me
where did ston. for every other ccr
1i'ion was perfect for climbing sui
further. The next time start i'll have
NOR" rnsollne. Won may he. sura. arr
III hotter this record ~ least as mucr
as Y bothered the one before.
Could Have Carried oassennc-
II shows. too think what stable
slow moving machine Is canabin or
coull have zone rs hiah with p>r
senGor. md there YVES no time wher
that passenger might not hive done
any reHsonahlr thing no chose. nc
r''"ht hove dronned bombs on n oattlc
shin and droaDcl them any nlare T."
wanted to. He might. have made nny
kind of observations he wanted IT,
and he could hove ware them at al
af"n'ntelv safe distance. ).
The. thinr wnt most nf NIL to IN +
nv sharc In hrir"ing tho hmoricsn
menpIe to q scientific nnnrociatian OF
to" nresent worth ard the future pos
s'hilities of The air shin. aThcv dn NOT
t"ke It seriously now rs they do abrnal
they look nnnn II rather as. q Vehicle
for Mountaineering. Abroad they have
their first regard for its imnnrtance rs
forerunner nf the things Tint pro IL
come. want. above everything else
tn do what I can to foster tho chnn4
ing spirit in Which 1t is considered