The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-07-10
7 BALLOONS
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TRIAL RAGE
AlrshIpS Regarded as Evenly
Matched, Each Being Of 8O,
600 Feet Capacity
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cleveland Aero club Buckeye
II Wade, lr.. pilot
n Western Aero Association Of rope
la Topeka H. Frank M Jacobs, pf
l0i
The balloons are regarded as even
( lg matched, eacA being of eighty
| thousand feet rapacity
| DlstaHce Alone viii Determine.
Distance travelled alone viii be
considered IN determining the lead.
4 ers on the contest Kansas City. on
account OF IT'S inland location, Is be-
Heyed 70 be an ideal starting point
/ for race nnder such conditions,
With q good north or northeast wind
\ belieVe followers Of aerunautics. sew
eral long flights viii be made. In
1 the past many balluonists sailing
from cities nearer bodies Of water,
| have been forced to alight long be-
fore their gas supplies were exhaust
\ ca because they feared they might
be carried OUT into q lake or an
ocean. Alighting in water In this
race will disqualify the contestant.
The honor of competing ia the Ben.
nett cup race Is, of course, the bic
plum for which the pilots III the con.
test today are striving bun there are
other prizes to be gained Each PHI
lot regardless OF his showing in the
meet, viii be given Slu0. Silver cups
viii be awarded the two leaders.
One Of the entrants, Lieut. Frank
II 1.ahfn, won the Bennett cup the
first time 1t was ever raced for
! MAT race started from Paris on Sep
tenrher DO 1916 He flew To Whit
BY. England. a distance OF 415 miles
East year he again was an entradt
III the race That time he sailed the
balloon he is plotting today, the ST
Louis IV $50 miles Lieut.. Lahm.
has been long connected with the
army. AT present hts 3nty is that az
instructor in aeronautics az TT. Riley
Kansas
Truly Clifford u. Harmon, who has
entered the New York, loves 70 fly
His fatherin-law, Commodore E. 4.
Benedict, is said to have offered him
Sl00.000 to quit flying, but Harmon
never seriously considered takiDe tue
bait. Harmon Us wealthy in his own.
RIGHT He is both q balloonist and
aviator.
Captain Fl. E. Honeywell has maha
lG5 balloon trips, more than any
other entrant His most noted flight.
was from Chicago On July 4. 1908
when he crossed Lake Michigan,
Lake Huron, Lake Ontario ana Lake
Ghampain before alighting. In an
attempt to win the Lahm cup on
May 49, 1910, Captain HONEYWELL be
cane becalmed while lowering over
Lake Michigan After several hours
his craft was finally carried up and
across TO the Michigan side where
he made a safe landing. He manu-
factured the balloon Kansas City, |
which he is sailing In this race.
a Perious Flight.
One OF the most perilcus balloon
flights ever made IN this country was
that Of William +. Assman from San !
Antonio Texas, 10 Cover. Mo, last /
February "A, in an attempt to win
the Lahm cup A few hours after he
aseenued his balloon the Miss Sofia /
was caught in a snow cloud. AT one I
time the bag reached a naltitude OF
$4,000 feet. Assman was In the air
twentvtwo hours and fwenty-eight /
making an average distance
OF thirtyHwo and half miles an
hour
The efforts of John w. Berry, pilot D
1f the Million Population Cub bal. /
loon, have been centered in the main
pon perfecting a steering apparatus
.or a dlrigible balloon. He has made
several short flights.
J. II. Wade. Jra IS credited with
lelng a courageous balloonist Many
u his flights have been made in the
treat Lakes eotion where each as.
ension Is fraugnt with great danger.
te has experienced several narrow =
'scapes but has never been serious l
Injured Frank NJ. Jacobs, OF To
iekal was but recently licensed a L
ilot, but he is sand 20 be absolutely :
earless.
From every city that has a repre-
entatire in the race delegations
'ero present when the aviation field !.
ates opened three hours before the !
.me for the first balloon 10 rise. ST.
.ouis sent crowd on a special !.
'ain
Se0is for approximately ten Saous
nd persons are provided Ia the avi. 4
lion field which was but recently
lmpleted Room is also set apart In
lr "a thousand automobiles. Sixteen H.,
lousadd feet Of sixteen inch pipe i
irried gas to The balloons. Natural IA
is which has been passed through lr
Gated pipes FOR the purpose OF elm M
ating the carbon. was used TO fil ln
c bags. J. W. Bemis. the wealthy ln
!. Louis sportsman. directed the Ia
ork Of Initiating the balloons. r