The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-01-09
AVIATION meet
AT Los ANGELES

Los Angeles, Jan Son a level
and broad field thirteen miles from
this city where a week ago herd
of cattle grazed In peace, a minia-
ture city of tents and plain wooden
structures today marks the spot
where the first aviation meet in Am
erica is TO begin Monday next and
above which the first competitive
trials OF speed and endurance between
heavier-th -than-air machines Will be seen
on this continent.
On a stretch of high ground at one
side Of the field. grandstaud has
been erected, rising forty feet in the
air and extending for seven hundred
eet along the course over which the
trials OF air craft Will be held.
Stretching out across the field, from
a point In front of the grand stand
is a long row of tents which house
numerous flying machines and Will
house many more during the days oil
the meet Along the side of the field
is a long line of tents which Will
house many dirigibles, and other
ships of the balloon type. The camp
Ing ground was made historic in the
days of historic Spanish dons. 1t Is
a part Of the famous Domiguez ranch
given to the Lieut. Ramon DomigueZ
of the army of Spain In 1884 and Its
extent was determined In the grant
by a clause which said that the gal
liant soldier for yalient services was
extended TO as large q tract as he
could ride round between sunrise and
sundowr The slope over which the
airships Will sail, made history in
the year 1876, by a battle between
early Callfornlans and members of
the crew of the vessel on which Com
modore Stockton afterward embarked
at San Pedro or Monterey to raise
the American flag over California
The course that has been laid out
on this gentle slope is visible from
every part of the big field which sur
rounds il, and from the crest of the
hill on which the grandstand rests
not only all the course but beyond
It the broad valley on the vast slope
of which the Los Angeles and Pasa-
dena appear. Flights may be made
In a direction and for twenty miles no
obstruction offers to hide them from
'the view spectators.
Monday has been selected as Avia-
tion day. and will be devoted to trials
and elimination of the flights The
aylators. who Will make the first
flights in heavler-than-air machines
'eYer attempted on the Pacific coast,
WIN perform on this day. NJ Mis-
carol. Roy Knabdenshue and Lincoln
Beachy will handle the dirigibles.
Bleriot. Curtiss. biplanes. and the new
Knabenshue machines that have al
ready been successfully flown. several
machines made by comparatively Un-
known inventors Will be given their
first trial to determine whether they
shall be entered on the lists of COM
petitors for the $4,000 in money prizes.
Flights for the two dozen spheri-
cal balloons that have been brought
from all over the world, Will be held
on Tuesday.
The first one of the prize competi-
tlons for heavier-than-alr machines
that for greatest speed will be made
on Tuesday Curtiss will make the
flights at a height of about 75 feet
on account OF the topography o the
field where as the flights over the
aviation course in Europe have
been made at a height o from Is TO
20 feet 1t is the expectation of Cur
tiss that all records for altitude in
heavler-than-air machines will be
broken here