The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-22
GREAT SUCCESS OF FIRST FLY
ING MACHINE CONTEST IN
AMERICA.
WINS H0NORS
cURTIss HAS FASTEST MACHINE
AND ONE MOST EASILY
HANDLED.


had been circling in the air in rivalry
OF the meadow larks that for so many
centuries have held dominion there,
settled softly to earth.
The aviators walked to their tents,
the great crowd filed down the road
way and the first international avia-
ton meet ever held in America was
over.
The last day of the meeting again
demonstrated the superiority of the
Curtiss machine, both in speed and in
the ease with which it can be started
and landed.
In a sensational 30-minute flight the
American dashed past Paulhan, the
Frenchman, and wild cheers went up
from the grandstand in approval OF
his feat.
Paulhan has won all the cross-coun-
try. passenger-carrying and endurance
tests, having a heavier, slower ma
chine and an engine which he trusts
absolutely. He has taken more than
$4,000 in prizes, and has broken the
,orld's records for altitude and for
cross-country flights alone and with
passenger, Curtiss has broken no
worlds records and probably will take
less than $4,000 in prizes.
Hamilton and Willard have taken
second and third prizes in most of the
events.
The prizes won during the meet in
Los Angeles follow
Height $1,000, Louis Paulhan. 4,165
feet, first; $4,000, Chas. X. Hamilton
53O.5 feet, second; $500. Curtiss, no
official height taken, third.
Endurance and time-s3,000, Louis
Paulhan, 1877 miles, 1:5S:32, first;
$4,000, Chas. X. Hamilton, 1914 miles,
$1,000 2-5 seconds; $500, Glenn H. Cur,
tiss, 1911, 24:54 2-5, third.
Speed, 10 laps-$3,000, Glenn H.
| Curtiss, 1911 miles, 23:43 3-5, first;
$4,000, Louis Paulhan, 1911 miles,
"a: 50 2-5, second; $500, Charles X.
| Hamilton, 1911 miles. 80: 81 3-5, third.
| Three laps with passenger-S1, 900,
Louis Paulhan, 4.S3 miles, Sis 1-5; no
| others contested.
Slowest lap-$500, Charles X. Ham
ilton, Lei miles, 3: 36 2-5.
Quickest start-$250, Glenn II. Cur
tiss, 9S feet, won.
| Starting and landing in square
$3.50. Charles F. Willard won; score
| perfect.
Cross-country, $4,000. Paulhan
won.
The following are records for the
course, made during the meet:
| Height, 4,165 feet, Louis Paulhan,
January 12.
Distance, 1871 miles, Louis Paul
han, Jan. IT.
Endurance, 1:5s:S2, Louis Paulhan,
Jan. II.
Speed, 10 laps. 2S:42 S-5. Glenn H.
Curtiss, Jan. II.
Speed. one lap, 2:12, Glenn H. Cur
| tiss, Jan. IA.
Speed, three laps with passenger,
SIG Is.
/ Slow speed one lap, 1886 2-5, c. X.
Hamilton, Jan. IA.
| Shortest distance in rising, 9S feet,
Glenn H. Curtiss, Jan. II.
| Shortest time in rising, 6 2-5 sec
onds. Glenn H. Curtiss, Jan. IL.
Dirigibles, one lap, 4:57 AS, Lincoln
Beachy, Jan. 10.
Charles X. Hamilton will go to San
| Diego and attempt there to secure
the worlds record for altitude, now
held by Paulhan.
Glenn Curtiss will leave for Ham
mondsport, N. Y.
Charles F. Willard will go to Port
land, Ore.
| Louis Paulhan with Mason and
| Miscarol, will go to San Francisco. Ii
| is probable that Paulhan Will fly IN
| Salt Lake and Denver, and reach New
| Orleans during the Mardi Gras cele'
bration there.
| When Curtiss finishes with his ap'
| pearance in court in connection with
| the infringement suits instituted by
the Wrights, he will begin construct
ing an immense flying machine of the
bi-plane type that will definitely force
into second place the rival Farman
which has during the past ten days,
under the hands of the spectacular
pilot Paulhan, demonstrated superior
| ity in endurance.
| According to Fancuilli. the proposed
bi-plane will have an immense spread
of flying surface and new fabric Will
| be used that will offer great resist
ance to the air. The motor, however,
will be of the same four-cylinder,
twenty-five horsepower type that is
used on the machines here. These
( motors, Fancuilli asserts, are suffici
emily powerful to drive the new en-
durance machine and they are the