Evening journal., 1910-10-01
SHRIVER TO TRY
FOR AIR RECORD
Will See How High He Can
Soar During the Whining
ton Exhibitions

Tod Shriyer, the airship pilot, who
is to give exhibitions under the au-
spices of the Wilmington Aero Club
at Horse Show Park four days next
week, will ship his biplane to Will
mington tomorrow and will begin his
preliminary flights on Monday to get
his machine in shape for the exhibi-
tion flights to begin Wednesday.
Shriver during the Wilmington ex-
hibition, il the conditions are favor
able. may try to break the record for
high flying. The Mineola aviator has
been practicing high flying and now
holds the record for altitude at the
popular Long Island Aerodrome.
1t was on Thursday evening that
Shriver showed his skill as a high
flyer. he stepped into his Dietz BIZ
plane. with it's motor working like a
clock, gave the signal TO let go and
off he went. Straight to the south
east climbing higher and higher until
he was more than half a mile in the
sky. II was wonderful sight Claude
Grahame White and James Radley,
the Enghlish aviators were taken with
surprise at the remarkable skill dis
played by Shriver as hky pilot
The two English birdmen we're Wis
iting Mineola when they saw Shriv-
er's flight Mr.. White himself only
made a few short turns over the
course. In that trip over the aerial
highways Shriver remained in the
air fully half an hour He passed
over several towns and flew twenty
five miles over all When he wanted
to make his landing Shriver had to
take ten minutes in which to do so,
describing q large circle as he came
down.
Aviator Shriver is making a special
study of two things in aviation. He
is trying to be the leading American
altitude climber in an aeroplane and
he wants to be the best cross country
flyer. He said that If suitable prize
is offered while he is flying at Will
mington he might attempt to make a
flight from the Horse Show Park to
some nearby city and return.
"Slim," as the aviator is popularly
called by all who know him intimate
ly. astonished the British aviators by
telling them that the motor he uses in
his biplane is a regular automobile
motor. The foreigners could not be-
lieve that it would do the proper kind
of work for an aerial craft But AS
soon as Mr.. Shriver's mechanics
Harry Webster and Charles inquest
set the propeller in motion its buzz
ing sound soon convinced the Eng
lishmen that Shriver knew something
about motors.
There is nothing that will stop
that motor" Mr.. Shriyer told the
British flyers, unless the gasoline
should run out. II did run out on me
once, when I made my forty-nine
minute moonlight flight. l flew and
few until the tank was dry. But the
motor was as faithful 10 me as ever
and | know that with it I will be able
to win the duration records at the
International Aviation meet at Bel
mont Park, n Y, the end Of next
month"
The Shriver-Dietz biplane is capa.
BILE of travelling between forty and
! fifty miles an hour. In the new ma
chine of the same type which is be
ing built now at Hampstead, L. !.
it is expected that nearly sixty miles
an hour will be developed In all. the
biplane which will make the spectacu-
lar flights around Wilmington mex
week. weighs about 500 pounds and
with the operator in 1t, it tips the
scales up to nearly thousand pounds
Just how far Mr.. Shriyer will fy
each day will depend entirely on the
speed of the wind. Usually near
sunset it is possible to make the best
flights and in all probability the best
flying will be around that time. It
does not take Mr.. Shriver more than
three minutes to get started and in
another three minutes he is miles
away and hundreds of feet high. He
promises the people Of Wilmington
the greatest treat they have seen in
years.