The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-01-20

Frenchman Astounds Multitude and
American Outooss HIM.

i American Outooss HIM.
! Los Angeles, Jan. 12.-Broksn rec
ords, thrilling fights with and withou
passengers and four aeroplanes in thu
air at the same time, breasting semi
gale that sported dangerously with thu
delicate contrivances, made thrillin.
finale for the 10000 spectators at Avi
alton field yesterday afternoon tina
had promised only tame little feats OF
eight.
Glenn II. Curtiss, the silent Ameri
can, defeated his mercurial French
rival, Paulhan, in the keen race fol-
honors, and shattered tho speed rec
ord for passenger carrying aeroplanes
Rising into the high wind that held
the ponderous dirigibles of Knaben
shue and Beachey helpless, the Ameri-
can flew wide circle in front of the
grandstand at the rate of So miles an
hour, with his friend, Jerome s.
Fancbuilli, beside him.
Not to be outdone, Paulhan took one
Of his mechanicians into his machine
and flew twice around the mile and q
half course. He failed to equal the
speed Curtiss had developed, though be
covered more ground than his oppon-
ent.
In the beginning the intrepid little
frsnchman seemed to have again mo
nopolized all the honors Of the day.
Thrice he drove enc of his big Far
man biplanes around the course. disre.
garding the stiff wind blowing in from
the sea. Then, in tiny Bleriot mono
plane, that looked like huge horse
ny, he gave the immense throng in
the stands and boxes the first thrill Of
the day with an exhibition of nerve
and daring that surpassed anything he
has heretofore attempted.
Several times signs of apprehension
and shrieks of nervous women rose
from the crowd as the tiny machine.
tossed by fierce gusts of wind, rolled
and careened in the air. Every mo-
ment was fraught with danger so great
that when the fight was safely over
and the monoplane had landed. far
wildly.
Apparently secure in his renewed
roie OF star of the meeting and de-
ilghted by the applause, Paulhan
brought out his Farman and few
twice more, once going probably two
miles north of the immense aviation
neld, out over the trees of a contigu-
GUS ranch.
Curtiss remained silent. CARRIED in
ou-spotted working clothes, an old cap
and shoes that had seen duty. he spent
his time tuning up the eight-cylinder
motor on the biplane with which he
won the international cup at Rheims
Never once did he look at Paulhap.
When the fourth flight of the Far.
man ended, the Americans machine
was trundled to the starting point and
without hesitation Curtiss motioned to
Fancuilli to get in.
Climbing in beside his passenger, the
aviator gave the word to his assistant.
pop and rattle like automatic artil
lery followed and the most remarkable
hight Of the day had begun.
Describing wide circle in front of
the grandstand, Curtiss few at all
angles of the wind, giving his mana.
ger thrilling fight. He landed al
most at the spot from which he
started.
Lieutenant faal Beck of the army
signal corps, one "a che judges, an
nounced that he figured the speed at
% miles an hour. When the record
breaking figures were posted. the
crowd went wild. Shouts and cheers
rose from the seats, automobile sirens
shrieked and hats were thrown up in
the air to be blown away by the wind.
faulhan, standing beside his biplane
on the side of the field. saw the per.
formance through binoculars. He
dropped them suddenly, gesticulatinq
wildly as he ratified off Instructions re
his crew, sending them racing to start
his motor. Then he mounted his seat
and rose majestically. At the same
time Willard and Hamilton brought
their machines to the start in front of
the grandstand. As they rose. Curt;ss
beckoned to Clifford Harmon. the New
york sportsman and balloonist. and
swept upward again. The four aero.
planes circled the course and the
crowd cheered with renewed frenzy.
Paulhan landed in few minutes.
determined to regain some of his lost
laurels. He ordered one of his assist. |
ants into the seat with him. Then
he arose and twice circled the circuit
his great biplane soaring as gracefully
with the extra man as 1t had done
with Psulhan alone.
In quick succession, Curtiss tried for
= starting record and a record for
anding. He succeeded in establishing
both, but Willard, coming next to the |
rial at landing, beat the best his chief |
could do. Curtiss, however, set a new
record for getting away, rising from
he ground % feet from the start in
30 seconds from the time his engine
started.
Paulhan tried to beat both marks.
but the best he could do was to rise
"a l2a seconds from the time his en-
zine started, and his machine ran
moro than 100 feet along the ground
before it rose.
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