The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-06-13

there wasn't anything. A man when
he Is up like that will think Of himself
first and his machine afterwards, but, of
course, he likes to get his machine down
as easily as possible.
"When was about fifty feet above
the ground there was a lot of telegraph
poles and wires right ahead of me that
l would have to clear and beyond that
trees between which l would have to
pass to clear the fence and get into
the field. At that moment a gust of
wind hit me and turned the machine
way over to one side. thought for
moment that it was going to be side
smash but l stepped way out to- one
side and righted her. Just as was
passing over the wires andother gust hit
me and the machine commenced TO turn
over on the other side and looked as if
it was going to hit the wires, sure. If
it had done that I would have gone
down but l again climbed out and threw
my weight to that side which righted
| her again. The plane cleared the wires
by about three inches.
Just Misses Death.
81 made another attempt to force
the front control down, but it was no
use. L had to pass between two trees
to get over the fence and to do this
forced my rudder around as far as it
would go but it didn t work at all.
was not going even fast enough for
that. Then, as 1 saw that would have
to hit the tree anyway, l jumped back
in my seat and threw all my weight TO
the rear which turned the machine
straight up on its tail. You know that
in the Curtiss machine the aviator is
right out in front and if had hit the
tree straight, the motor would have
forced the whole weight against me and
crushed me. AS it was, falling straight
backwards, the motor resisted the fall
rather than helped it.
"There were number of boys in the
tree, which was about twenty-five feet
high, and the force with which the ma
chine hit it knocked four or five of them
out The last fall was about twenty
five feet but it was broken first by the
front control catching ON the branches
where the machine hung until the con
troll had broken off. Then, of course
the tail had to break, and when the ma
chine hit the ground had not suffered
scratch, although was sore all owe
and am yet 1 was fiat on my bach
at the time.
Anti Climax Scratch.
Gas soon as extricated myself from
the machine l climbed over the fence
to wave my hands to the crowd and le
them know tnat l WASH t hurt for they
all thought that L was killed. The boards
of the fence were rotten and broke al
| got ahOld of them, scratching my arm
That was the only injury l received il
the fight.
cit was entirely the motor IS fault
We do not know yet what was wronI
with it, although my machinist think
/, that the carburetor was frozen, say
that he saw ice on it when came down
The control was broken off and the tai
smashed to bits, but the main plane
were very little damaged We do no
7 know whether the motor has been dam
aged or not.
: The day before went up we wer
: visiting a Hawaiian girl that my wifi
knew when she was here to years age
The girl made me promise to gear
ti-leaf lei when went up for no on
I who wore one got hurt when anythin
I happened. l had to promise and put on
a on accordingly. 1 was talking with
, Hawaiian woman today and she say
! that would certainly have been kille
! if it was not for that lei. am goin
to keep it for souvenir