The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-02
Aviator Fowler In
 A ''Co|e fiyer''
First Contestant for $50,OOO Hearst TranscOntinen-
 tai Prize.

| tai Prize.
 Robert Fowler, an unknown but | skilled birdman of Los Angeles, will
 attempt to win the Hearst prize of
 S50.0OO for flying from San Francisco
 to New York. He is the first aero-
 naut to signify his intention to at
 tempt this longest and most hazard out of flights. His entry has just
 been filed by J. J. Cole,president of the Cole Motor Car company.
 Flyer Fowler will attempt the long flight in 'NTNhe Cole Flyer"-a Wright
 b1-plane, equipped with a Cole motor
 He will start from San Francisco on
 or about September 10, and expects to
 reach New York by flying not more
 than 3.2OO miles.
 | He will follow the northern route
 of the Southern Pacific Railway, 1 crossing the Sierra Nevada range in ] the neighborhood of Colfax, Cal, at
 an altitude of 6.7OO feet.
 | His transcontinental air route leads
 by the way of Reno, New, for 60 miles | over the Great Salt Lake in Utah, crosses the Rocky Mountains between
 Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyo., passes via Omaha, Des Moines, Chicago, then
 south toward Pittsburg, and finally | north toward the Mohawk Valley in
 upper New York, and finishing along
 the Hudson river, over which Atwood | has just completed his record breaking | flight from St. Louis to New York. In attempting the most spectacular l feat that can be accomplished by
 aviators, Fowler will be aided by the
 most carefully and elaborately planned I campaign that has ever been conceiv 1 ed to assist an airman in a historic
 flight.
 A special train providing first class | living accommodations for the aviator
 and his entourage will follow him l closely over the entire route of the ] flight This train will carry two
 mechanicians and two other mech
 arficians will constantly travel from 75 l to 100 miles in advance of the aviator
 for emergency needs.
 l There will also be on the train an
 expert physical culture director, who | will constantly supervise the diet of | the airman, and. direct the masseur | and trainers, who will daily keep him | in the pink of condition. There will
 also be on board several physicians | and nurses equipped for all contin gencies
 | In the baggage car. of the special
 train there will be enough spare parts | to build three complete Wright bi- planes.
 The mechanicians who accompany | the expedition are the most compe- l tent craftsmen MT. J. J. Cole could
 secure. It is estimated that they can \ rebuild a broken machine within eight | hours. | There will also be three complete | Cole motors not assembled, which in | part or as whole can be utilized at any point where they are necessary.
 If any machine fails to do it's function 1 properly the corresponding part car | ried in the special can be substituted. | 5c fn c111lc ify1fn
 motor it can be placed in the aero
 plane within two hours at the utmost. | From one side of the continent to l the other the Cole company will make l an effort to have the aviator in sight
 by automobilists who twill form an 1 everlasting and overwhelming endless
 chain of guards. It is said that the flying machine will never be more than | five minutes out of reach of the near est help.
 l All along the route of the flight this
 organization will maintain fuel sta-
 tions, lubricating oil supply depots. | water tanks and all the first aids that
 are necessary to a flying machine. Every detail to aid the flight will be | prepared in advance by the automo-
 bilists who are involved in this chain. Fowler is a Western birdman, and
 has made numerous successful flights. At the present time he is making daily
 flights at Dayton, Ohio, under the mas 1 ter guidance of the Wright Brothers. His course of preparation for the | flight includes practice at making
 landing in difficult places, in manoeu- vering in the wind, in starting from
 rough ground-in short, he is driving
 his Cole Flyer up against all sorts of
 obstacles to fortify himself for his
 flight over the high Sierra and Rocky | Mountains, and across the wide,wind- swept prairies.
 He is familiar with every mile of
 the country between San. Francisco
 and New York, having crossed several times in an automobile He says F'Ow- | Ter will not get lost on the way, as
 did Atwood in his St. Louis to New | York flight.
 1 MT. Fowler is graduate at Leland Stanford University, and very much of | a gentleman in dress, appearance and
 action. He is a big powerful athletic
 chap, and we'll able to stand the rigors
 of so long and trying flight. He is
 2S years old-young enough to be dar- | ing; too. old-and too wise to be rash President Cole, who has followed aeronautic matters very closely, says
 the greatest danger on long cross careless after days of flying. He
 grows tired. He grows lax in his driving and in his vigilance for air disturbances. President Cole contends | that most of the fatalities are due to ] careless driving. Flyer Fowler agrees with Mr. Cole and says that he will I be alive and alert from coast to coast. | MT. Cole, with an eye to the advance
 ment of the areoplane, has for long been experimenting along aeronautic
 lines One of his experiments proved
 that the Cole 36-40 HIP. motor was ideally adapted to the areoplane. He
 attributed this to the high refinement | of the Cole motor, and the perfect re- | gard for stresses and strains in it's construction. He says it gives better
 service in an aeroplane than many of
 the high-priced, delicately constructed
 imported motors, because Of its smooth
 running qualities and freedom from l vibration.
 l Fowler leaves Dayton with his Cole | Flyer for San Francisco, within the | course of week.
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