The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15
w i'll Try Again To-Day
to Fly Higher Than
Paulhan.
ENGINE TROUBLE
STOPS HIS FLIGHT
Frenchman Drives His Machine
Twenty Miles Across Country
and Return Dirigibles Race
Around Course at Avia-
ton Field After
Slow Record.

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Aviation Field. Log Angeles. Cal.
January 1i.-An unsuccessful attempt
by Charles Hamilton in Curtiss BIZ
plane to break Louis Paulhan's record
! for height and cross-country trir
BY Paulhan from the aviation field
twenty miles to the sea and return to-
/ way were the features of the fifth day
| of the aviation meet.
/ Pauliian's flight was the first cross
| country flight since the meet began
| Because he did not announce his In
tention In making the flight, it was
not officially recognized.
Hamilton started late In the day to
excel PauIhan's record of 4l65 feet
made Wednesday,. He rose 500 feet
remained aloft twelve minutes and
| then returned. saying:
..Aly engine did not work right.
Will try 1t again tomorrow
Paulhan, while Fla milton was up.
was trying to make a. speed record OF
the course for ono lap. He failed In
more ways than one. Not only did lie
fall below Glenn II. Curtisss time. but
in trying to descend in too short a cir
Gle his machine tilted and struck the
ground, breaking one of the lower
plane tips.
Partial Failure.
One OF the most important events
of the day was the attempt OF Lieu
tenant Paulbeck. United States Signal
Corps. TO drop a bag of ammunition
into measured space from a Curtiss
biplane ESQ feet ingtile air. The idea
was to find out whetilersit would be
possible for an aIrship to drop bombs
into gun pits. TIE effort was par.
ittai failure because OF engine trouble.
Another attempt Will be made.
Paulhan, in q Farman biplane. again
startled tho crowd by flying out of a
gulley back of the airship tents un-
sApectedly. and darting off to San
He scared high soverssiIe ground and
stand and disappeared in the direction,
OF the Pacft Ocean. He sailed 1if-l
teen miles aa54the crow flies. s he
q / !ieia Long Beach
s. and San PedroEharbor. he lsas greeted
the harbor. He sailed abovejthe wire
less telegraph mast at the harbor en-
trance. and then flew back to Los
Angeles.
curtiss machines made great head
way. Soon after o'clock Curtiss
started the official events by trying to
set q new speed record for the course
OF p :, 9 mile nile and half: His afirst at
lpaulhan distracted attention by HIS
San Pedro flight. When things had
settled down again Curtiss made 4
new trial. He cut the time to {: go as.
In another attempt he set mark 81
2.12 fiat. . IfF s. q 5 ''-1si,s = ~
Paulhan then flew into the centre
OF the arena and made his bow. He
remained in the air eighteen minutes
ana thirty seconds. and circled the
course SIX times.
Dirisiblcs Race.
Then the dirigibles appeared. Roy
knabenshue and Lincoln Beachey an
nounced a speed trial for the course.
The big bags crossed the tape and
moved gracefully along. The race was
the first for dirigibles over q. pra.
scribed course. knabenshue made What
was regarded as fast time. 30 AZ
Beachey took 1850. g,s - - = = "
knabenshue later exceeded his now
speed record for the course In hisa
dirigible, making it in 5:1O2-5.
Hamilton then went up after the
slow record of the course Flo went az
the rate of mile and a half n three
minutes and thirty-six seconds. vii.
lard. in the same Curtiss tyne Of mo
chine. made the time In 5 III i-5.
The Bleriot monoplane started out
han in the saddle. .5t5. - -
For the first time since tho meet
began this little machine, the typn In
which Bleriot crossed the Enrlish
Channel, made a complete circuit. r.
the course in s:4S. ~ *