Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-10
AVIATION MEET IN AMERICA
City Of Tents and Wooden Structures
Near Los Angeles.
TRIALS WILL BEGIN TODAY
Most OF Crack Air Pilots from
europe aud United states Are
Present in Person or Have
Machines on Ground.

America Is TO begin on Monday and
above which the first competitive trials OF
speed and endurance between heavier-thanr
air machines will be seen on this continent
on a stretch Of high ground at one side
Of the field a grandstand has been erected
700 feet In length. Stretching out across the
field from a point in front of the grand
stand is a long row Of tents that now cover
numerous flying machines and will house
many more during the ten days of the
meet.
on another side of the broad field
another line OF tents IS placed, and here
the United states army dirigible and many
other airships Of the balloon type are be-
ing assembled, ready for initiation.
Camp on Historic Ground.
Aviation camp is on ground made his
torlc in the days of the Spanish dons. 1t
is a part OF the famous Domlnguez ranch,
given to Lieutenant Juan Jose Dominique
Of the army OF spain In the year 1854 and
it's extent was determined in the grant Dy
a clause which said that the gallant soldier
for valiant services. was entitled TO as
large a tract as he could ride around be-
tween sunrise and sunset. The very slope
over which the modern vessels OF the air
viii sail, was made historic in the year
1s45 by a battle between the early Can
fornians and member of the crew OF the
vessel on which Commodore Stockton AFTER
ward embarked at San Pedro for Monterey
to raise the American flag over Calltorhla'
The course that has been laid out on the
slope is visible from every part OF the DIG
field which surrounds 1t, and from tne
crest of the hill on which the grand
stand rests, not only all of the course may
ba MAINLY viewed but beyond 1t the broad
IL g.. .1,na Tho pitiAg of LOS
Angeles and Pasadena appear. Flights may
ha made in any direction and for twenty
miles no obstruction offers to hide them
from the view of the spectators
Officers Are Selected.
THO osf,eerq Of the Aero club Of California
announce tonight the selection of the tol-
lowing Judges for the competitive flights.
Courtland Field Bishop, president of the
Aero club Of America. chairmani H. La
v. Twinning of the Aero Club of California,
vice chairman; Nj. c. Neuner, Lieutenant
Paul w. Beck, Dick Ferris and william
stevens.
Alternates: A. l.. smight, George B. Har-
rison. Secretary TO the judges, w. II.
Leonard.
While no program for the meet can be
completed until the arrival of Louis Paul
han the French aviator. and his asso-
clates, tomorrow, Monday has been nom
mated as Aviation day and will be devoted
to trials and elimination flights. The
a~viators who will make the first flights
n heayier-than-air machines ever at
npted on the Pacific coast win be Glenn
Curtiss, Louis Paulhan. Charles X.
.-amilton, Charles h. Willard. Clifford b.
Harmon, Nj. Maisson, M. Miscarol, Roy
Knabenshue and Lincoln Beachy. Farnam
bi-planes, Bleriot monoplanes, Curtiss BIZ
planes and the new Knabenshue machine
will be flown and several machines made
by comparatively unknown inventors, will
be given their first trial to determine
whether they shall be entered in the lists
of competitors for the $4,000 in money
prizes.
Plan for Balloon light
Flights for the two dozen spherical bal
looms hat have been brought to this city
from all parts Of the country will be made
from Huntington park, twenty miles from
the aviation field. owing TO The conform.
alton of the intervening stretch of coun.
Try, however, spectators at Aviation
camp viii be enabled to see the balloo
flights at the same time the heavier-than
air machines are in the air, and ii the ali
currents are right the balloons may a.
AAAiAN 10 w AAANNNA1 W. NHN ANN
field. balloon races will be held in tn;
latter days Of the meet. when attempts
to sail over the Sierra Madre ranges Of
mountains and to sail from this city t.
San Francisco for prizes offered by Tho
aviation COMMITTEES will be made.
The first one OF the prize competition
for heavier-than-ai machines-that FOL
greatest speed-will be made on Tuesday
According to Glenn Ii. Curtiss the aviator!
will be compelled to make these flights a
a height of about seventy-flve feet, on ac
count of the topography of the field
whereas the flights over the aviation
courses in Europe have been made at
height of fifteen to twenty feet.
1t is the expectation of Curtiss that al
records for altitude in heavier-than-a
machines will be broken here.
Curtiss Talks of
When told today at Aviation camp tina
ths flight OF Hubert Latham yesterday
when he attained an altitude of approx
mately $500 feet in an aeroplane, ha,
aroused great enthusiasm among foreigl
aviators. Glenn H. Curtiss, the American
aviator. smiled and said:
"The height to which an aeroplane ma,
be taken is a matter of the fuel that cal
be carried and the engine itself. Their
Is no other limit, except. Of course, tn
density of the atmosphere. How high
will be safe to so on account OF the llghte
atmosphere of the higher attitudes re
mains to be found out. We expect Z
break all records for attitudes here in Cal
ifornia. II is the records for speed an
duration OF flight that are going to b
harder to break. However, l consider tn
flight of Latham a great feat and an earl
indication Of what the present year is 20
ing to see accomplished in TIE way Q
aviation"
The big balloon New York, carrying it
owner. Clifford b. Harmon, Mrs. Alvi
French and ner niece, Jean French, a
passengers, and George b. Harrison an
George Duessler. balloon pilots. landed a
Casa Verduga. in the Glendale valley. a
44l this afternoon. after a flight of nearl
Mo hours.
The landing was made with ease and n
discomfort or danger attended any porto
OF this. the initial flight Of the aeronaui
who have gathered here ror the aviatio
meet.
An altitude OF 5000 feet was attained an
observations were taken by Mr.. Harriso
and Mr.. Duessler,
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