The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-21
RIFLE PRACTICE FROM AERO
AND MANI JOY RIDES At THE
SHEEPSHEAD FIELD.
sharp shooting Entirely Practicable
Prom an AeroPiAne A,iatSrS Take
Ipseyrral Passengers and Do stunts
over sea and I.And-lArge Crowd.

II vas difficult to sat in the grand stand
at the Sheepshead BAY racetrack and
enjoy the scenery yesterday afternoon
b You would no sooner get your eve hxed
on a distant prospect and lean back "a
enjoy Il than an aeroplane would swooT
: past like a hungry hawk and spoil the
view The air was cluttered with these
sprucewOod and silk r,Ibhsr swoopers
and the uproar of their threshinR pro-
, T'-llsrs was like the complaint Of many
pony locomotives shunting cars in the
sidings Of a freight yard
There were some persons who seemed
To take an unreasonable stand They
went about grumpily. saying they weren Z
sore about flying machines getting 80
common. but they thought IL was time 10
kick when their noses got full Of pollen
and aIrdust and brought the hay fever
back on them When Glenn Curtiss. who
- directing the Sheepshead BAY avIa-
ton meet. heard about this he volunteered
to relieve any hay fever sufferer who was
game enough to give his snesze a 50o foot
lift so a young man named Fuller who
had lost utterly the Use % the letter n
went up with Charley Willard When ha
lit he could say Tennessee or synCoration
or any of those things. and he offered
thanks with dry eyes This 10 not. how
ever II may sound. an untrIth
Taking II all around il was a large day
for q Hammond Curtiss Of HAmmonds-
port and the convey - youths whom he
has taught Ia tilt with the winds The
b"ss and his pupils collected three Am~rl-
can recnrds They had up five biplanes
NJ one time. wheeling. darling and gliding
and falling into line Curtiss few with a
sharpshooting Lieutenant Of the regular
army, who droN. a Sprin gfeld rife bullet
into tn" turf - close 10 a two foot target
that he wa convinced thA; some day
aeroplanss will bs a. much 81 a necessity
in tn. service ~ batteries Of field guns
And Willard carried for a passenger an
actres~ who didn't let her preas agent
know that she was going up This last IL
worlds record
since Aviatnr- have 90, beyond the
stage ~ glory rides and soaring for SCIENCE
alone the appearance - the grand and
field stands. the long lawn and the fringe
~ 'h" track VA very pleasing 10 Curtiss
Mars Mcturdy willard and Ely More
than 900 persons paid 81 apiecs to ait
in tn. grand stand and Upwards 81 700
lot go 81 half dollar for seats in the feld
stand or foot room on tho lawn II was
tho first time IN two years that tho field
stand had he-n occupied and IN. h.g
crowd there rnaldlng into tho mas in
tho Cu~tlier seats completed a picture
that Sha-psh"ad hasn't sem SINGS Gov
Hughes hauled the ,ookir- OF thsir high
stools and open h-ttng went the way ~
the YEA and three sh-lis
Vastly more p~opl" who didn't pay
WATCHED III. exhibition Any elevated
position was RrantstAnd seat for
Curtis, aTi his young men weren't stingy
enough 80 Nv low All the time within tn"
"rcirclinR f"no.-, and stands and stables
OCCASIONALLY th"v rose high aid far
y-oi,s@. motn.Ltariy over tho raceirack
aud then struck out over the roofs Of
no.srsiis village, skImmlrR on and on
until the cl"S- lines - the plat ~ were
hurre Nv Cista' a. q tho vicious -on z
Of the IToI.ll-rs drorei away to siler o.
one fyIug MAJ Whe"l'. over tn. Oriental
Hotel ALI laugh- At the surprise of a
seaside orow!. Another sAilei over
flatbush 49, came rack a better man.
while a third amused himself by lazily
looping the town 1T Sh~.pshsa1 Raw
Bui the trick that caught ths crowd
and seni HOO I.-opl" =" their feet with
open mouths tth" cheering came later
Wa when four fi'n. approached the
rac-'rack iuteli simultaneously from
four different POINTS ~ the compass
mort sast. southwest. , orthwest south
east, hun lightly for half a minute SOO
fest a. the AIR and then came DOWN ore
az a time IN l"rg graceful slant which
cropped them ~ IA" C~rtre 10 tho field
tn. nActi - Only few yards apart
Tn" " hoop that rus" then from the stands
VA like the yell that uS.'t "a rip loose
a. the odd days when Colin rompsd home
with rveTvlpTy's money
Curtiss likes to start his shows promptly
and give. the crowd something t. loos az
all the time ~ At 1O''loCk exactly ~. sent
Bud Mars out tn test the going A stout
darky who used "a make his living cooling
N thoruughbreds around th" stables and
~ b 1850 job now - to rlIh down asToplan.--
halp-d Bud tr,Indls hi- lttl" 81 hors..-
pDw"r hplan. onto IN" lnheld Mar.
darted M while Ely was getting ready
made -tra ght flight down the oval and
hack and reported to GURUS that the
.outh"ast wind was gusty and bother
complaint Bud tired u again with a
passenger. two minut" tight fifty feet
shoN. the grass and the plane behaved
~ well that Curtis- decided Their. waS
NJ EIoCial danger ia ObhgIng Joy riders
Five hiplane- had h'..n vheelsd from the
one tan. betting ring. now tn" Paddock
Of fnotl'-- raC''rS. and the folks IA the
stand were beginning Ia lean forward
Charley Willard Of Boston. CurtiHs's I
first pupil cool youngster who has
mad" a reputation for daring without
being r"cA l'-s-. shot up AZ .S2 for his
first flight Of IN" meeting Charley tried
out q neg bIplan". "A bird with wide wings
and ~ hOrs"-power motor The big
plane navigated the Choppy brcezcs AZ
steadily an old Truck 80 Willard took
her around tn. turn az the south end Of /
the IaCstrack and M back on the spot !
from which he startei His first pas I
"nger war young woman cousin ~ .
Bud Mars. Mrs Paul Mcbride Charley
tucAci her IN pretty much M YOU would
fuss with a girl Won we're taking sleigh +
riding and away they went with iilmy .
trail ~ smok" from the motor and a faint .
s1ueai from Mrs McBrid.
Al sos O'Clock Curtiss strolled out on /
the field. plunked the guy wires 81 his I
hack cross country fyabutit to $40 that |
waS taut. sad something to \
Augustus Post and shot up toward the |
clouds He swung around the track at an I
altitude ~ tGn feet covering perhaps a |
mile and a half ~ two minutes fat. and
at the beginning ~ the second round [
Tipped sharply ~ front " the grand stand
The crowd thought h. was going to land