The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-11-01


heavy motor in the fall. The French
have been the heaviest losers III
life of any of the nations interest,"
ed in aeronautics. Half a score Oh |
daring and temperamental French
men have paid with their lives the
penalty for venturing into the SKY
spaces on frail machines OF SILK anu
minum and piano wire. The Germans
are the next heaviest losers In HE
and property. The wrecking of the
numerous rigid and semi-rigid dirlglples
of the Zeppelin and Parseval types mas
hit hard the hackers of the German
idea in aeronautics. The casualtles
for the year 1909 we're terminated Dy
the death of the Spanish aviator, Fer
I nandez. at Nice, on December o. ne
was a martyr to the idea OF lgntness
in aero plane construction. His deatn
was undoubtedly caused by trying 10
dv with a motor that was entirely too
light for the strain it had to bear dur
ing his determined flights. Wnlie
/ sweeping in great circles over tne
aviation grounds of the French city
! the tiny motor gave way with Spit
ting crash. The watchers turned their
heads away while the swift fall lasted.
In spite of the warning conveyed IN
his death. many aviators even yet are
sacrificing safety fer lightness IN their
engines. Delagrange, who was Killed
in the first week of January, 1910,
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 under
the weight of his heavy motor, When
under the strain of full fight. Della
grange was the first aviator to carry
a passenger with him in his aerial
trips. Mrs. Pettier, the first woman
messenger in the history of the aero
plane. made a fight with him in July.
1908
After the death of Delagrange, the
first few months of 1910 were devoid
of fatal accidents. Aviation meetings
, were going on late in the winter IN
America. southern Europe and In
, Egypt. 1t was April in the present
: wear before LIE Blon was killed on the
Spanish seacoast at San Sebastian.
, lie Blon was the idol of the more dar-
B.. ing aviators. He had attracted inter
national attention by his remarkable
, flights at Doncaster. England. late IN
October of the previous year. He had
dared the winds to do their worst IN
;. a 15-mile flight on October 10. and on
: the next day he made a trip that all
q aviators. even his nervous fellow
, countrvmen. characterized as fool
= hardy. 4 great gale blew up out o.
: the Atlantic on the night of October
: IS. growing steadily worse through
= the night Of the nineteenth 1t was
e the sort that sweeps the tight little
. island" every autumn. a terrific blow
g that comes roaring up the channe
= from the Atlantic. sending fishermen
- and channel shipping scurrying 70
= shelter in some rock bound harbor.
In the midst of this great gale tn
10 Frenchman announced that he wa
h going to make a flight In aeronau
o teal records the fight that he mad
" that day is set down as being "a foo
If hardy fight in great gale.
If The death roll has grown rapid
L. in this. the summer of 1910. On Ma
.. 10. Nichelin was carried by a stron
As wind against a derrick, and in the ia
10 that followed sustained injuries tina
a. caused his death Eugene Spier wa
is killed at San Francisco while pra'
r. Using on a glider NJ. Robi met hl
re death in a meet at Stettin Wachte
al was killed at Reims. Charles Stewal
Rolls. hero of England by reason
III his remarkable fight from Dover
of Calais and return. was killed at Bou
Of nemouth through a rudder of his ow
e. invention failing to answer the leve
n Kinet. a Belgian, met his death durln
N. recent aviation exhibition in
sn French town. Eugene Ely. while tr
w ing for the third time to make col
wv tinuous fight from Winnipeg to Por
I'd age IA Prairie. fell from height
to several hundred feet and was kille
aS Tie dirigibles have been the occ
i'll sion Of nine of the twenty-thrt
We deaths of the last two years. c
NJ. September %, 1909, the French WI
of balloon. the Republique, on its Wa
ay to Meudon from the field maneuvel
a at La Palisse, was destroyed, su
he possibly by propeller blade breakir
,u- off and ripping open the walls Of Il
a craft Four men were killed in Il
ed fall of 400 feet, that followed the utt
he collapse of the dirigible. In the q
rk struction of the Erbsloeh, at l-eic
ar lingen Germany. a few days ago. fl
en- men, including the inventor. met the
Lir. doom.