The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-06-16
To FLY TWENTY
MILES OR MORE
AVIATOR MASON WILL SOAR
OVER ISLAND AT A
NILE HIGH

| airs' Will be made Saturday morning
by Aviator Mason from Leilehua to
Kapiolaui Park in an Antoinette mono.
plane Not only has he firmly made
1p his mind TO attempt the first long
fight in Hawaii but has announced his
intention of making it at height of
FIVE thousand feet.
Mason first announced his plans last
week and sticks to them in the face
of several who are trying to dissuade
him. When "Bud" Mars was flying
he gave the Hawaiian wind currents
an extremely bad reputation and as
most local peoples knowledge of avia.
ton here is based on what Mars said
in the newspapers, they were not look
ing for a feat of this sort.
Mason is probably acting on the
theory Walker tried to carry into prac-
tice at Hilo, that an altitude of a
thousand feet is safer for the aviator
than one of three hundred or so by
reason of the fact that if anything
should happen to the machine, the
aviator has chance to right it and
glide to earth, having ample time to
pick out a safe landing place. Mas
son s decision to go to five thousand
feet, however, is in line only with his
reputation of being one of the dare
devils among the bird men. He has
press clippings showing that he few
over Los Angeles at 5000 feet.
Machines Not Here Yet.
The three flying machine that were
supposed to have arrived on the Will
helmina yesterday for Walker and Mas
son did not put in an appearance and
1t has now been learned that they are
on the Sierra, due here Friday. The
two Autoinette monoplanes coming for
Mason have been crossing the con.
tinent in bond, after arriving from
France, and it seems that they were
held up by the customs men at San
Francisco for some unaccountable
reason. Walker IS Curtiss biplane which
is coming with them, was also held nm.
Masson's feat of flying twenty miles
IN the perverse Hawaiian air currents
at an altitude of five thousand feet.
will have to be preluded by another
feat of transportation and unpacking.
Arriving in the morning, special order
will have to be secured from Brewer
Co. 20 have the monoplanes taken
from the Sierra IS hold at once and from
the wharf they will be rushed to the
railroad station and place on board the
morning train for Leilehua. Arriving
az the army post in the afternoon, they
VIII have to be unpaeked and assembled
and prepared for fight. Massons saws
that he can have them ready for their
aerial voyage in three hours.
Saving Time?
Mason IS decision to make this fight
arose primarily out of desire to test
the Leilehua fields and get back into
town as quickly as possible afterwards.
The sensational features were added
after the promoters tried to induce him
not to try it. He says that he will fol-
low the government road as closely as
possible in order to have some place
to land in an emergency.
Ready for Meet.
All plans have been completed for
the second aviation meet in Hawaii
with the exception of the financial
guarantee which is not yet forthcom-
ing, but over which there is no more
than the usual hesitation. There will
be hve flights on each of the two days,
saturday and Sunday. There will be
two flights in the morning, one at ten
and one at eleven, and the other three
VIII take place in the afternoon, at
two, three and four respectively.
Both aviators win probably be in the
air at the same time. Walker was anx-
lOus to give an exhibition of trick tiy.
ing at Hilo and would have done so
had he not suffered accident and Mas.
son, as is apparent, has a tendency to
"triek" flying.
Good Place to Fly.
Walker has been looking over Kapio
lani Park with an aviator's eve and de-
clares it to be an ideal place to fiy,
The wind he declares to be sufficiently
steady, or at least, not gustful enough
to make it more than usually dangerous
while the landing places are ideal. The
broad expanse of Kapiolani Park. the
numerous roads, all Kaimuki. practical
ly, and even the floor of the Diamond
Head crater itself offers a billiard
table surface for the aviator to land on
Exhibition Free.
In one way the public will have to
stand the full expense of the meet and
in another, the meet will be free to the
public. If the flights come off at all as
scheduled there will be no such thing
as gate receipts. As many as the big
park Will hold can come in free OF
charge and watch the aviators, and as
they will not by any means confins
their fights to the park, the entire city
will see.
Bat first there must be n guarante,
of the sums that the aviators hav,
named as the price of their perform
ance, which is about $500. This amount
pays in all for ten flights by two mel
in two different types Of machine, anS
fights that promise to be sensational
altogether an aviation bargain, com
pared TO the guarantee that Mars want
ed for three small flights a day.
The Honolulu Rapid Transit bai
headed a public subscription list will
$3.50 and the subscription paper Is nov
going before the mercantile bodies ant
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