Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-11-11
Bomb Throwing
From Airships
ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME AT
BALTIMORE AVIATION MEET.
THRILLING AERIAL STUNTS
Postmaster General Hitchcock and
Other Government Officials Made
Trip AIoft-Latham Scores BuIIseye.

Baltimore Nov. 1o.-The aviation en-
thusiasts who focked today to the field
where the Baltimore aviation meet is
being held was the largest of the meet
nus far. The day was a good one tor
living. though the sky was overcast.
Ihe programme was one of great at
fractions and tire audience included
some distinguished visitors. But three
quarters of an hour before the time
for the official ciosin" IN antzx s,7st
that sent hats. programmes and other
small articles flying and threatened 20
wreck the skeleton support of the wind
guage. brought with it big, dust
laden raindrops, and the crowds rush
ed for the protection of waiting trains.
Government Officials Go Aloft.
Today's fights differed in many re-
spects from anything seen here hitl1er-
to. There were bomb throwing and
target shooting for speeding airships.
there were aerial gymnastics that
thrilled, and there were trips aEoft by
prominent government officials, fol-
lowed by official expressions as to the
sensations experienced aloft and as to
the merits of aeroplanes of different
designs Postmaster General Hitch
cock, after a flight with Count De Les
seps, was so pleased that he asked
Hoxsey for higher flight in the
Wright biplane. But Hoxsey had
passenger carrying altogether safe.
and he asked the postmaster general
to wait until tomorrow. Mr.. Hitch
cock expressed himself as delighted
with his experience in the air. After
he had been brought safely to earth.
General James Allen, chief Of staff u.
S. A, entered Count De Lesseps 100
horsepower Bleriot and was given the
new experience of flight In the party
from washington with him and the
postmaster general We're Secretary Of
War Jacob NJ. Dickinson, General
William Wotherspoon, president of the
war college Of the army: Count Yep
pehn. Minister of The Netherlands
Louden, Thomas Nelson Page and sew
eral others, togther with a number of
ladies.
RadIey First on the Wing.
The first of the flyers to take wing
was James Radley at a bit after 2
o'clock, he being followed aloft almost
Immediately by Latham in his Antoin-
ette.- Both descended after brief
flights.
Firing at Target.
A little later Count De Lesseys in
his 100-horse power Bleriot took aloft
for rifle practice Capt. J. r. Douw of
the state ordnance corps. After a trip
around the course to give the marks
man his bearings. Captain Douw fired
a.
arms practice, but the best of the
shots missed the mark by four feet.
Latham then tried with a revolver.
Covering the target in the c{rcumfer-
ence of circle of small diameter
from his Antoinette he twice fired two
shots from a revolver. OF these four
shots, two We're hits, one scoring two
and the other three points. Count De
Lesseps then took up as a passenger
Lieutenant Dupuy of the signal corps
Of the state of New York
Wind Too FIuky for High Flight.
Just before three o'clock ]. Arm
strong Drexel began a try for altitude
the wind at the time blowing at the
rate of nine miles an hour. In about
ten minutes he had floated out of sight
in the direction of the city. He re-
ter of an hour, reporting the wind
aloft too fluky for high flight. His
Paragraph recorded $40 feet only.
The Bomb Throwing Contest.
Ely in Curtiss biplane went into
the air intending to try for the Com
modore Barry bomb throwing trophy,
but descended before completing a lap
for the purpose of making reaIjust-
r1ents to his biplane. Latham began
the bomb throwing contest and made
a score Of fifteen points with SIX
DOIuUS oue Ol INeS6 WOulO nave drop
ped into the funnel of battleship,
and 1t therefore counted as a bulls
eye. Under the rules governing the
Barry trophy contest, bombs must be
thrown from a height of not less than
100 feet. Some OF Latham's fell from
more than double that altitude and
against rising wind. Drexel follow
ed Latham in the bomb contest From
his Bleriot he dropped six of the mis-
siles upon the outline representing the
deck of a battleship. but as none of
struck a vital spot, his score was only
six. While he was preparing to drop
his second bonrb, Hoxsey, In a big.
passenger carrying Wright biplane,
flew across the grandsfand from the
railroad station at Halethorpe He
circled the course many times and
made three flights in all during the
afternoon.