New-York tribune., 1910-01-10
LOS ANGELES MEET
AVIATORS CONFIDENT.
Paulhan Purposes to Fly OUer
Sierra MadreS.

Los Angeles. Jan. a-Louis Pauhan, the
French aviator. hoJner of the aerial speed
record for one mile, and two members OF
his syndicate of flyers, Miscarol and Mais-
son, arrived to-day, ready to enter the first
aeropiaie contest of the internatiohai
meet here Tomorrow They brought with
them two Bleriot monoplanes and two ar
man biplanes, in which Maisson and Mis-
carol Will fly tomorrow in competition
with Willard, Hamilton and Curtiss in the
speed and height tests.
There are now nine heavier -than-air craft
ready to compete. The FIVE mechanicians
brought by Paulhan will work throughout
the night and the Bleriot and Farman
machines will Re ready for flights to-mor-
row. They were ready for installing the
engines before dark Standing beside the
five Curtiss machines in the great shelter
tent they looked gigantic.
The Curtiss machines are the smallest
successful aeropIanes yet developed, but
the inventor declared to-day that he ex-
pected to see speed records lowered this
we~h, while he himself hoped to surpass
the high flights of his chief French COM
petitor in the next ten days.
Charles X. Hamilton Is put forward by
Curtiss to beat PauIhan's official speed
fifth second. He will also go after the
record established by the luckiess Della
grange, who few / mile and S63 yards in
l minute and A seconds.
CURTISS AND PAULHAN MEET.
Curtiss was in working clothes to-day
when Paulhan appeared in the shelter tent
Curtiss speaks no French and Paulhan no
English. SO they shook hands in silence.
rtafn
WHO is more than six feet tall was stand
ing near. Noting the smaller size OF Cur
tiss and Paulhan, he shook his head and
remarked: "This Is the first time I ever
wanted to oe small.
Like Curtiss, Paulhan finds the course
rot quite TO his liking. because the aviators
must either breast an incline or go down
II in starting. He voted for hexagonal
course, and a once score of road making
machines and scrapers were set at work
smoothing out level starting. place.
Curtiss and Paulhan were surrounded to-
day by thousands Of persons who went to
the camp to see the assembling OF the aerial
racers.
With Edmund Cleary, his manager, act
ing as interpreter, reporters catechised
Paulhan as TO his plans and prospects of
beating the new records made abroad
was asked.
"Oh, yes that is why / came
He flew higher than three thousand feet
the other day; can you beat that?'
Yes" Paulhan answered.
Then. pointing toward the snowcad
Sierra Madres, cleaning in the sun above
curtain of clouds, he asked:
How high is that?"
More than four thousand feet" he was
told.
well. I'll fly over that"
Curtiss had the Harmon biplane ready to-
day. It had never been put together before,
and il shone with varnish and bright metal
fittings.
Harmon was announced to make his trial
flight to-day. but a strong wind sweeping
in from the sea caused halt in Che plans
Harmon was eating at luncheon stand
while the wind blew threateningly.
This is something like a condemned
mans, breakfast; it may be my last" he
was saying, when Curtss came up and told
him the wind was too strong.
"A REPRIEvE'' FOR HARMON.
Got a reprieve,'' he added.
All the American bipanes. including one
built by Captain Mueller, the baIloonist
have -four cylinder motors, except that in
which Curtiss hopes to make records and
take large part of the prize money. This
is the eight cylinder biplane in which he
made the remarkable flights at Rheims
At that meeting, he said, he could not use
the full power of the motor for fear of
wrecking the machine and killing himself
He has now made some notifications
which he says will enable him to use the
IuI power
The weather forecaster predicts clear
cooler weather for Tomorrow. with little or
no wind.
When told yesterday-that the flight of
Hubert Latham on Friday. when he at
taned an altitude of approximately thirty
five hundred feet in an aereplane, had
aroused great enthusiasm among foreign
aviators. Mr.. Curtiss smiled and said:
The height to which an aeroplane may
be taken is a matter of the fuel that can
be carried and the engine itself. There Is
no other limit except, of course, the dem
-sity of the atmosphere. How high it will
be safe to go on account of the lighter at
mosphere of the higher attitudes remains
TO be found out. We expect TO break all
records for attitudes here in California.
1t is the records for speed and duration of
fight that are going to be harder to break.
However. l consider the flight of Latham
a great feat and an early indication of
what the present year is going 10 see ac-
complished in the way of aviation"
Late to-day Curtss made three short
flights in the Harmon biplanc. The first
time he remained up half minute, the
second time forty seconds and the third
time one minute and ten seconds. During
the third fight he travelled three-quarters
of mile