New-York tribune., 1910-09-20
A|RMEN SEE BLUE SKY
New Entries for Aviation Meet
Bring Promoters Joy.
FRENCH EXPERTS TO FLY
Morane, De Lesseps, Aubrun and
Simon Will Perform at
Belmont Park.


Timorous hopes of few weeks ago are
daily crystallizlng into fascinating facts
for the managers of the International Avia-
ton Tournament. who smile and smile
whenever the subject of the forthcoming
contest at Belmont Park is mentioned.
The result is that the smiles are continu-
Gus, because the subject is always upper
most during these crowded closing days of
the preliminary arrangements
Since Allan A. Ryan took command
things have revolved. Not a few things
have been turned upside down. 1t is prob
able that his father, Thomas F. Ryan. will
b . more frequently referred to as his father
after next month.
The manager received a cable message
last night from Cortlandt f. Bishop an
nouncing that Leon Morane, Count Jacques
de Lesseps, Aubrun and Simon. all French
aviators of the highest attitudes had signed
contracts to fly at Belmont Park.
This means that six of the greatest fly
ing men of France are to be present at the
International Aviation Tournament. Alfred
Ie Blanc and Hubert Latham have already
been named on the international team, and
the addition of Count de Lesseps, Aubrun
and Simon gives the American meeting the
assurance of the presence of half dozen
of the most difficult aviators to take prizes
from that are lying abroad to-day.
The cable message does not indicate
clearly whether Morane will be on the IN
ternational team. 1t is possible that he
will take part only in the general pro-
gramme of the tournament, but in the mat
ter of capturing cash prizes his work Will
doubtless be specific enough.
About two weeks ago Morane rose in his
monoplane from Deauville, France, to a
height OF s.471 feet. eclipsing his own world
record of 1854 feet In doing so he narrow
" escaped disaster. His motor stopped
mile and half above sea level, and nearly
three-ouarters Of Morane's descent was al
most a direct fall. The aviator became
dizzy and nauseated and experienced other
sensations of a diseagreeable sort, that he
has since referred to as indescribable.
In many ways the recent Circuit de PFst
race of 800 miles. from Paris to TIE German
frontier. was the most notable in human
flight. A prize of $4,000 was offered to the
winner. who proved to be Alfred lie Blanc,
Aubrun was second. The next most con-
spicuous aviator in that notable contest was
Henry Weymann, an American. who viii
also take part in the Belmont Park
meeting.
The race was made up of several stages,
much of the distance being over wild and
unknown country. While the high powered
Beriot monopanes driven by LIE Blanc and
Aubrun covered the distance with COM
parative ease the slower machines greatly
fatigued their pilots and met with many
accidents. lie Blanc and Aubrun much or
the time travelled, however. At the rate OF
sixty miles. They made very careful prepa-
rations for each stage of the trip. Bach
carried a pivoted compass, floating in glyce-
rine, and a specially prepared map. mounted
on rollers placed in front of the pilots
seat TO be easily seen and operated
Large scale ordnance maps were used
Perhaps LIE Blanc owes something of his
success to his experience as a bslloon1st
While flying over the mountainous Coun-
tries, where the other machines were buff
feted about by disturbing air currents. lie
Blanc, with the keen instinct Of tho aero
naut, felt out the smoother air lanes by
sometimes rising 10 an altitude of two
| thousand feet, and in that way escaped
many of the disturbing elements that COM
pelied others to descend.
lie Blanc will bring with him 100-horse-
power Bleriot. hacked up by the strongest
of determinations to regain this year what
Louis Bleriot lost by the margin of q few
| seconds in the international contest at
Rheims a year ago.
The contest between the monoplane and
the biplane at the meet will be one of the
most interesting features at Belmont Park.
Notwithstanding the big speed records re-
Gently made in Europe by some OF the
high power monoplanes, some men who
think more than they talk are advising
their friends to bet on the double surface
machines that are to be equipped with
| powerful motors.
Frenchmen have never forgotten Curtiss' :
! capture of the speed trophy. They have
| forgiven him, but to forget what he did
when he was looked upon as a mere un-
| known-to do so would be TO ask too much
Frenchmen are making rubber-heeled prep
arations to win back the trophy. The
principal competition there is between the
manufacturers of the Bleriot and Antoinette
monoplanes. Latham will use an Antoi-
| nette, and is said to be financially inter
| ested in the Antoinette company
Many Americans now abroad have sent
| cable messages ordering roof-boxes at Bel
mont Park New Yorker, reading in
Paris of the international show, wired yes
| terday:
Reserve one box for aviation meet. Want
| it on the roof. These Frenchmen will fly
/ to the moon
| j. c. Mccoy. chairman of the aviation
committee. said yesterday that the an
| nouncement OF ne official list of entries
would be made in a few days He said
! that the committee was now contemplating
| closing the entry list on October l. as the
members were now sure OF all the aViatOrS
| they desired.