Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-09-21

death beneath his
heavy motor in the fall. The French
have been the heaviest losers In
life OF any OF the nations interest
ed in aeronautics. Half a score Of
daring and temperamental French.
men have paid with their lives the
| penalty for venturing into the sky
spaces on frail machines of silk, alu-
minum and piano wire. The Germans
are the next heaviest losers in life
and property. The wrecking OF the
numerous rigid and semi-rigid dirigibles
OF the Zeppelin and Parseval types has
hit hard the hackers OF the German
| idea IN aeronautics. The casualties
for the year 1909 were terminated by
the death Of the Spanish aviator, Fer
| nandez, at Nice, on December 6. He
was martyr to the idea Of lightness
IN aeroplane construction. His death
was undoubtedly caused by trying to
! fly with motor that was entirely too
| light for the strain 1t had TO bear dur
| ing his determined flights. While
sweeping in great circles over the
aviation grounds of the French city
the tiny motor gave way with split
ting crash. The watchers turned their
heads away while the swift fall lasted
In spite of the warning conveyed in
his death, many aviators even yet are
sacrificing safety for lightness in their
engines. Delagrange, who was killed
In the first week Of January, 1910.
made the opposing mistake of having
an engine whose weight was too great
for his wing area. His planes were
not sufficiently large to bear up under
the weight of his heavy motor, when
under the strain OF full flight. Della
grange was the first aviator to carry
a passenger with him in his aerial
trips. Mrs. Pettier, the first woman
| passenger in the history of the aero.
plane. made flight with him in July.
1908.
After the death of Delagrange, the
first few months of 1910 were devoid
of fatal accidents. Aviation meetings
were going on late In the winter In
America, southern Europe and In
Egypt. 1t was April In the present
year before lie Blon was killed on the
Spanish seacoast at San Sebastian.
LIE Blon was the idol Of the more dar.
Ing aviators. He had attracted inter.
national attention by his remarkable
flights at Doncaster England, late In
October of the previous year. He had
/ dared the winds to do their worst in
a 15-mile flight on October 10. and on
the next day he made a trip. that all
aviators. even his nervous fellow.
countrymen, characterized as fool.
| hardy. A greet gale blew up out of
the Atlantic on the night Of October
Is, growing steadily worse through
the night Of the nineteenth. 1t was
the sort that sweeps the tight little
island" every autumn, a terrific blow
that comes roaring up the channel
from the Atlantic. sending fishermen
md channel shipping scurrying for
SSelter In some rock-bound harbor.
in the midst of this sreat gale the
FrenShman announced that he was
going to make a fight. In aeronau.
teal records the fight that he made
that day is set down as being "a fool
hardy flight in q great gale"
The death roll has grown rapidly
! I'm this, the summer of 1910. On Nav
13, Michelin was carried by strong
wind against a derrick. and in the fall
that followed sustained injuries that
caused his death. Eugene Spier was
killed at San Francisco while prac.
Using on a glider" NJ Robi met his
death in a meet at Stettin. Wachter
was killed at Reims Charles Stewart
Rolls, hero OF England by reason Of
his remarkable fight from Dover tc
Calais and return, was killed at Bour
nemouth through a rudder OF his Owl
invention failing to answer the lever
Kinet, Belgian. met his death during
recent aviation exhibition in
French town. Eugene Ely. while try
ing for the third time to make a con
tinuous fight from Winnipeg to Port.
age la Prairie. fell from a height of
several hundred feet and was killed
The dirigibles have been the occa-
sion Of nine OF the twenty-three
deaths OF the last two years. On
September %, 1909. the French war
balloon. the Republique, on its way
to Meudon from the field maneuvers
at La Palisse. was destroyed. sup.
possably by a propeller blade breaking
of and ripping open tbs walls OF the
craft. Four men we're billed in the
fall OF 400 feet. that followed the utter
collapse Of the dirigibla. In the de
struction OF the BrbsiCeH, at LEIGH.
lingen. Germany. a few days ago. FIVE
men. including tho inventor. met their
doom.