The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-01-01
los ANGELES
AVIATION meet


spectacular things have been done in
the advancement Of the art and the
science Of flying, and princely sums
have been expended In the building
Of airships and mechanical contriv-
ances to carry men through the air.
And during this same time scores of
men whom the public had never before
heard Of have won worldwide distinc-
tion through their inventions, and their
flights in various parts Of the world.
Newspapers and magazines have been
filed with accounts Of wonderful
fights, and pictures Of airships. In
fact, it is beginning to dawn upon the
public mind that there is something
new in the world-something very
wonderful, and something about which
the imagination may play at any
length. And it seems certain that no
matter how far the Imagination may
go at this time, the reality will 60
even further in very little more time.
When all Of the great aeronautical
inventions of the year, and many Of
the great aeronauts and aviators of
the world are gathered on the aviation
field at Los Angeles during this month
for the first trial in America of all the
known types of aircraft, the people will
have their first opportunity Of actual
ly witnessing the ractical test of ev-
erything that has been accomplished in
the science and art Of flying down to
the present time. The program Of the
Los Angeles meeting AS it has been
prepared by General Manager Dick
Ferris, represents, in itself, practical
ly everyone Of the successful types of
airships, and nearly all Of the great
inventors in the aeronautic and avia-
tion fields, together with many of the
great pilots known to the world of air
navigation.
To embrace everything worth know
ing, the history of areial conquest
need not 60 back more than two years,
at the most, and the accomplishments
of the past year are enough to afford
a comprehensive knowledge of the
subject. Two years ago little or moth
ing was known of heavier-than air ma
chimes, and dirigibles were considered
visionary things that we're built only
on paper, after plans conceived in the
imagination Of very imaginative men.
But the past year has shown us that
Is not altogether true. Fleets Of
heavier. than-air machines have hover
ed over aviation fields in many places,
while great ships Of the air, buoyed up
by monster gas bags, sailed high above
them, and travelled in safety from
one city of Europe to another.
During the past year M. Bleriot
startled the world by flying over the
choppy waters of the English channel
from France to England. Not long
after this Wilbur Wright won the
Michelis trophy by a fight in his
heavier-than air machine lasting two
hours, Is minutes and 33 seconds. At
the Los Angeles meet will be seen
types Of the machine in which Bleriot
few for more than two hours and a
quarter. Operating them will be avi-
ators who have studied and practiced
under the guidance Of both Bleriot and
Wright.
OF equal prominence with these two
is Glenn II. Curtiss, the American avi-
ator, who will be in Los Angeles to
make daily nights with his heavier
than-air machine the same in which
he won notable victories over all of
the great aeroplanists % tNe world =.
Rheims and Brescia At Rheims Cur
tiss won the international cup. and al
Brescia he took second nrive for al
titnde, ascending to hight of l6s
feet.
Weeks before Bleriot made his
flight across the channel Hubert Lath
am had attempted the same feat. arr
came to grief when his motor brok'
down while he was over midchannel
and his machine came down with 8
graceful sweep into the water. Lath
am, like Bleriot. pins his faith to tn,
monoplare He made a mile minute
flight at Tohannisthal. and at Rheims
he few 81 miles in two hours and Il
minutes. One Of the machines used by
Latham will be seen in Los Angeles
operated by a member of the French
syndicate Of aviators who have receiv
ed 100000 outright for their appear
ance during the Los Angeles meeting
But little less spectacular than th'
flight of M. Bleriot over the channe
was the flight, few months later
of the Count de Lambert around tn,
Eiffel tower in Paris. Those who at
tend the LossAngeles meeting will ais
have the privilege of seeing on Of tn
Santos -Dumont type OF machines, il
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