The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-11
GREAT FLIGHTS
At BAL LT|MORE
Aerial Gymnasts and Sharp
shooting Interest Spectators
at Big Aviation Meet.
AVIAT0RS PROVE TO BE
EXCELLENT MARkSMEN
Bomb b-ThrOwing Contests Vary
Programme of Unique
Tests of Skill.

BALTIMORE. Md, Nov. l0.-Sun-
beams With raindSops narrowed tic en-
thuSiasts at the aviation field today. To-
days flights differed in many respects
from anything seen here hitherto. They
Included bomb throwing and target shoot
ing from speeding airships, aerial gym
nastics and trips aloft made by gov
eminent officials. followed by official
expressions as to the sensations eX-
pericnccd and ms 10 The merits OF aero
planes OF different designs
Postmaster General Hitchcock. after
Hight with Count Jacques dc Les
seps, was 40 pleased that he asked
Archibald HoXsey for IL higher flight in
the Wright bipane. But Hoxsey had
found the upper air too gusry to make
passenger carrying altogether safe and
he asked the postmaster general 10 wait
until tomorrow Mr.. Hitchcock asserted
himself as delighted with his experience
After he had been brought safely to
Garth General James Allen. chief of
de Lcsseps' 100 horse power Bieriot
and was given the new experience OF n
hight. In tho party from Washington
with him and the postmaster general
eral William W,thcrspoon. president of
the Army War college, Thomas Nelson
Pago and several others, together with a
number of women.
Aerial Sharpshooters.
Tho first of the flyers to take WING was
James Radley, shortly after o'clock.
no being followed immedia tcly by Latham
in his hntoiuelte. Both descended after
brief flights. a little later Count de
Lesseps. in his 100 0-horse power Bleriot.
took aloft for rifle practice Captain John
p. Douw of the state Ordnance CORDS.
After n trip around The course 70 give
the marksnan his bearings. Captain
Douw fred twice at the &C. target
Z. S. a. small arms practice. but the
best OF the shots missed the mark by
four feet.
Latham then tried with revolver
Covering tho tarket in the circumference
of n circle Of small diameter from his
AntoInette he twice fired four shots. OF
these two werc hits. one scoring two
and the other three points. Count de
Lesscps then took ND a passenger Lieu
tenant Dupuy OF the Signal corps of the
state or New York.
just before 3 o'clock i. Armstrong
Drexsl began a try for altitude tho wind
at the time blowing nine miles an hour.
In about ton minutes he had f1oated out
Of sight in the direction OF the city He
returned after a trip of about quarter
of an hour reporting the wind too tiuIty
for high flight His barograph recorded
$50 feet. though the manner OF his flight
gavo the impression of much greater al
ttude.
Some Bomb Throwing.
Ely. in q Curtss biplane. went into tho
air intending to try for the Commodore
Barry bomb throwing trophy. but de-
purpose of making readJustments 10 his
biplaue. Latham made a score of ffteen
points with elk bombs. One OF these
would have dropped into the tunnel Of Il
battleshIp. and therefore counted as Il
bullseye. Under the rules governing the
Barry trophy contest. bombs must be
thrown from height of not less than
100 feet, Some OF Latham's fell from
more than double that altitude, and
against 81 rising wind
Drexel from his Bleriot dropped siT
of the missiles upon the outline repre-
senting the deck of battleshp. but as
mono OF them struck a vital spot, his
score was only six.
While he was preparing to drop his
second bomb. Hoxscy, III a big Wright
biplane. flew across the grand stand from
the railroad station at Halethorpe, where
his machine had been assembled in rec
ord breaking time. He circled the course
many times. performing brilliant evoiu-
tions and dividing the interest Of the au-
dience with Drexel. who continued his
bomb-dropping.
TIoxsey few his Wright In almost every
conceivable manner, now In taperiDg lon.
gitudinal spirals. now gracefully gliding
from great heights, then literally gliding
over the surface Of the earth, only to
rise again into the upper air. He made
three flights in all during the afternoon.
Shortly after o'clock angry clouds
In the west spoiled further efforts and
less than quarter OF an hour later came
the rain, Then the trio of bombs sig
nailed the official cloSa 6ay