The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-05
LOCAL YOUTHS
BUY AER0PLANE
Clarence A. Walker and D. A.
Raybould Purchase New Cur
tiss Flying Machine.
ENTER AVIATION MEETING
AT SAN FRANCISCO PARK
Tour Of the Orient Is Planned
if Aerial Conquest Proves
Successful.

Undsmayed by tho dangers attendant
on aviation, Clarence II. Walker, son OF
the late ID. +. Walker. and ID. a. Ray
bould. two Salt Lake youths. have pur-
chased Curtiss bIplane and will leave
today for San Francisco to enter tho
international aviation meet which be-
gins in that city OH Saturday.
The machine purchased IS the Curtiss
aeroplane in which Eugene y. Ely start
ed TO fly from Chicago To New York.
After flying $50 miles. Ely abandoned
the attempt TO join the Curtiss team at
the. international contests ut Belmont
park The machine was purchased by
Clarence Walker for $4,000, 1t is the ma :
chlne in which Ely learned TO fly and
IL mas always been a favorite machine
of Glenn CurtIss, the inventor. The ma
chine Is now on It's way from Ham
mondspor,, n. j.. where the factory of
the Curtiss company Is located TO Avia-
lion park at San Francisco.
The heroplauc which the boys have
pie for. Robert Simpson, a prominent au-
tomobllc dealer at Portland, who had
the machine constructed for the use
OF Ely then daring automobile pilot,
EIy made sucn phenomenal success
mat he became a member or the CurtIss
team OF flyers.
Will Teach Aviation.
Mr.. Walker will be instructed in the
art of flying by Glenn Curtss and Eu-
gene ELY and Will enter the novice races
at san francisco and compete for the
altitude and endurance prizes. Mr. Ray
bould will be Mr., Walkers manager and
press agent In tho party will also be
known automobile mechanicians, who
have also had some experience in the
meGhanical side of aviation,
Walker and Raybould are both former
students of the engineering department
AT the University of Utah. and both are
among the well-known young men Of Salt
Lake. Walker Is an expert automobile
one of the best judges Of speed and dis
lance in the motor-driving field.
ABOUT year ago. with Douris Davis
and James Wade. Walker began the con-
structlon OF an aeroplane modelled largely
after the Farman biplane, Short flights
were made with this machine, but 1t was
not an unqualified success The mao chine
has been stored fer the winter. but the
young aviators believe that there are
possibilities in store for the machine and
VIII experiment with il again In the
SIFing.
To Tour the Orient.
If they meet with success at San Fran
cisco, walker and Raybould will either
join the Curtiss team of demonstrating
aviators or they will go to the Orient
on an exhibition tour under their own
management, At present they have made
tentative plans for flying exhibitions at
Honolulu. Toxic Manila, and in Aus
lralla.
Arrangements are being made for an
aviation meet in Salt Lake following the
San Francisco meet. Attempts are being
made to secure either the Wright or
Curtiss aviators and Hubert Latham, tine
daring French aviator who flies the ia
nous Demoiselle monoplane, to come to
Salt Lake. If Walker makes a success
In San Francisco. efforts Will be made to
have him bring his biplane to Salt Lake
for the proposed meeting.
Among those who will go to San Fran
cisco TO witness the aviation meet are
Dwight Holmes and James Wade Mr.
Wade goes to San Francisco as the staff
correspondent Of The Tribune at the big
aviation meeting. Mr.. Wade Is a student
OF aviation, He was the designer of the
aeroplane built by him and Walker and
Davis. He has studied engineering and
aeronauticS for several years.