The Green Forest tribune., 1910-07-15
FLYING A GREAT SUCCESS
What We Saw Hoxsey Do With the
 Aeroplane. Other Trip Notes


 through md-air with all the grace of swallow, produces thrilling sensation indeed for the person witnessing tn, feat for the first time.
 The editor of The Tribune saw onC of the worlds famous aviators, Prof Arch HoXsey, make what has beer pronounced one of the most successful flights he ever made at Pittsburg Kans., on the Fourth and it was { sight that was well worth the price.
 The flight was made from a park which was provided with seats for per. haps 0,000 people and they were about all taken.
 Just before the hour announced for the flight crew of half dozen men removed the big machine from large tent in the center of the grounds and moved it up on it's temporary wheels to within forty or fifty feet of the grand stand and placed it on one-rail track about 100 feet long, and after a test of the engine to see that it was in thor ough working order, Hoxsey took his seat beside the engine bracing himself and holding to the steerer as though he was starting for an auto ride. All at once the "ship" was released by the men holding it and with a swift move to the end of the track, the machine glided away, rising as it went until it was perhaps fifty feet high. AS it went over the farther edge of the park, it turned with the range of the fence and scared around, coming back directly oyer the spot from which it arose as though it was going to light, but to the surprise of those who did not know the program, it dashed up- ward again with renewed velocity, going over practically the same ground with greater fourishes, speeding by the grand stand with a whir that famed the air for some distance.
 After some six or seven repetitions of this performance, the machine was brought to a standstill, lighting a few feet from the starting point with all the ease of bird darting to earth in search of an insect. The entire pro ceedng covered period of about twelve minutes.
 About the time we were congratulate ing ourselves on the amount of firing we had seen for the price, we noticed that the aeroplane was being hauled back to the track for another demo- stration and this time came feats far more thrilling than before, the machine being made to shoot upward and down. ward after the fashion of the high diver, at the same time making like turns as before. A third trip was made carrying passenger in the person of Mir. Hall, Secretary of the Pittsburg Commercial Club, and fourth was made in which the machine was made to sail round and round going upward until height of a thousand or more feet was reached. It was a beautiful sight to be sure as it sailed round at a distance almost too high for the spec tators to hear the exhaust from the engine. The descent was made in the same manner The fourth flight con- cluded the program for the day, and the vast throng of people dispersed expressing their satisfaction in the highest possible terms.
 The biplane is an odd looking con- trivance and you would hardly take it for flying machine from it's shape as you see it on the ground. It, however, presents different aspect in the air and may be described as looking some what like bird, it having the parts that perform the function of head, wings and tail On the high fly view ing the ship from the bottom we pro- nounced it as having some re- semblance of an insect we used to see about the ponds and creeks in our early boyhood which we called a "snake doctor"
 The wings of the ship which are propelled by the engine, of course, are two large air wheels, something after the windmill or water wheel fashion and the rapid turning of these wings is what gives the power to fly. The machine is constructed of wood, aluminium and rubberized silk. The engine is an S0- horse power built of aluminium. The ship with the aviator and "cargo" has a weight of about 1000 pounds.
 It really seems that air navigation has we'll nigh reached the practical point One thing has been demonstrat- ed to a certainty that it is a paying business. We were told that the foul days flying at Pittsburg' cost the promoters $7000. We had just about made up our mind that Hoxsey had the smoothest proposition out, wher we read in the papers the next day that his engine went dead on him at 2 height of 500 feet and he came to earth with crash that demolished his plane and he narrowly escaped fataI injury.
 The airship demonstration, while the climax of things of interest on oul trip to Kansas, was by no means al that interested us. At Girard, we wis itad o,, oi,,cbi,, foator,y and couy xr,bor,