The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-10-28
ROWLING WESTERN
GALE STOPS FLIGHTS

the wright team OF aNlatorS went up
| for altitude at Belmont park this aft
ernoon and brought down the record
| of the day for distance.
The fifth day OF the International
Aviation meet opened full OF promise
| and closed In a bowling western gale
| that filed the air with whlrling au-
| tumn leaves, slammed down tho
benches In the grandstand, ripped out
| the canvas screens that bar the view
| of those who have not paid, but hope
| 10 see: and sent such a skirmish line
OF dust dancing around the track that
the lamps had to be lighted outside
the hangers for the mechanics TO find
their way about 1t was furious end
to day OF postponements, disappoint-
ments and scattered feats of the most
daring airmanship that has yet been
witnessed by an American crowd.
Wind Proves Too Strong for Flight.
Officially, flights for the Gordon
Bennett elimination trials to pick an
American team which shall defend the
International trophy won at Rheims
last year by Glenn II. Curtiss. opened
at o'clock this morning, but nobody
cared TO come out for them in the
wind that was blowing At half past
one o'clock the special prize of Sl0,-
600, offered by Thomas F. Ryan for
flight from the field to the Statue
OF Liberty and return, was open to any
aviator, but none of them dared try
il. They chose to take advantage In
stead of the latest largesse allowed
them by the committec-permissio
to compete between 100 and 3 40
o'clock any afternoon during the meet
| \ Al 1, .vl, ,,l
before 8 80.
That narrowed the program down
to one hourly event for distance and
altitude Latham in an Antoinette
monoplane, for distance and HoXsey
and Johnstone of the Wright team
for altitude, were the only ones to
brave gale of from twenty to twen
ty-flve miles an hour
Do Not Understand the Eagle.
Johnstone and HoXsey tried to set
their wings and soar into the gale
without effort, but they showed that
the way OF an eagle In the air is still
one Of the things men do not under
stand, They kept their polse beauti-
fully, but although the speed OF the
biplane they were flying is normally
35 miles an hour and their engines
were running wide open, they were
pushed steadily out of view and down
over the edge Of the horizon The up
per gale they were Jamming must
have been more than forty miles an
hour, but as neither was willing to
come down before the other, they
stuck it out until forced to land by
sheer competition of the elements.
Made TWO Long Flights.
Both were driven miles off their
course Word came from HoXsey
first. that he had landed at Brent
wood, l. i, about % miles distant
Johnstone was carried 50 miles to
Middle Island, L. l.
These were the two longest flights
of the day Each telephoned in that
they hoped to fly back TO the course
tomorrow
For the first hour the distance event,
the only routine number remaining on
the program. the sole entrant was La
than in an Antoinette. He finished
the hour with only l4 laps, 81. miles
in 80 minutes, 1880 seconds and the
figures show how fierce was his battle
with the gale. but they cannot bring
out as did the visual image itself his
beautiful maneuvering One thousand
feet above the grandStand he journey
ed his way around the turns by sheer
resourcefuness and nerve. The gale
was so obstinate that he had to point
head into II and steer due north in or
der to edge sidewise, like a ferryboat
in a run OF tide. and make distance
to the west
Swiss Aviator Gives Flight.
A special event for distance and al.
titude was added to the program to
amuse the crowd, but 1t was long
before any ne came ut for it Finally
Audemars. a Swiss. In tiny Demois-
ellie, danced over the course; but II
was not day for a yellow butterfly
and after two rounds Audemars learn
ed prudence and went back to the
hangar. If he had started just one
minute earlier. he might have won
the easiest money of the meet-S250
for first in hourly distance-wlth ono
lap, but the bomb banged before he
was quarters OF the way around.
To Blookins, instead, fell the easy
money. With flight lasting only
twenty minutes in which he rose to
an altitude of 650 feet he brought
down $500 for first place In a special
event for altitude and duration. 1t
could not be called a contest, he.
cause he had no competition, but
Brookins felt he had earned tho
money.
Twenty-Five dollars minute may
seem high pay" he said, but ! went
out 70 prove the ability of an Ameri-
can machine 10 ride gale that no
foreigner would dare"
Wind Storm Ends Contest.
A few moments after he landed
came the wind storm and all Of the
contests were called Off The records
OF Johnstone and HoXsey for altitude
will not be available until their baro-
graph readings have been brought
back 30 the aviation field tomorrow.
With incomplete figures it is impossi-
BILE to give out today's full summaries,
but so far as they are available, they
are as follows.
First hour, distance event-Won by
Latham (Antoinette) II laps, 217
miles; tIWe % minutes, is so seconds.
No other starters.
First hourly altitude: undetermined.
Special event for altitude and dura-
tion-Won BY Brookins (WrlghU =.
time 20 minutes height ESQ feet un-
offlciaD No second or third
Standing OF the prize winoers-Hox-
sey (winnlngS today unknown). 81
$50: Grahame-White, 81 700; Latham,