Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-29
Daring and Sensational Feats
In The Air by Beachey.
Wind InieTteTes with Program
Only -Four Events Tried.
The Double Trip Around Boston
Light for This Afternoon.

Boston. Aug. 2S.=HdIIed as ing
of the air. for his recent achieve
ment in breaking the worlds record
for cross-country lying, Harry n. At
wood of Boston swept down out of
ram soaked clouds upon the aviation
field at Squantum late today to re
ceive the plaudits Of thousands of his
home people gathered to witness the
aviation feats of the second day of
the Harvard Boston Aero meet
AtN oof made the trip to the field
in a Burgess Wright hiplane such as
he had used on his St Louis-to-New
York trip, flying from the golf links
at Nollaston. ii couple of miles away.
While the band played Hail to the
King" and auto horns shrieked. broth
err aViators and friends rushed to
greet the aier. He was lifted to the
shoulders of Adams d. Clahin. man
ager of the meet, Charles j. Glidden
chairman of the contest committee,
who carried him UP and down before
the grand stand to the delight of the
crowd and the embarrassment of the
modest aviator. Further evidence of
appreciation was shown in a bronze
trophy presented by Everett Wendell
for Clifford b. Harmon of New York
and cup from newspaper men of
Boston. who had flown with the young
aviator.
A heavy downpour of rain which
lasted until ALMOST the hour of the
meet kept down the crowd today. A
tricky wind which flew from % to 80
miles an hour intereferred greatly
with the program Of events and
L.,
the afternoon. d cross-countrY blight
to Boston light and return for $500
in prizes.
The bomb dropping event was like
wise omitted owing to the high wind,
leaving four events on the days pro-
gram
The first two events We're for ac-
curacy in landing and quick starting,
the high wind impeding the former
and favoring the latter. The Wright
and Curtss machines Went into the
landing tests but the high wind seized
them every time they touched the
ground and lifted them some distance
from the point.
The strong wind lifting the planes
favored the quick starting tests and
Sopwnrth left the ground in 10 see
onds from a standing start. Beachy
did the trick in II seconds, while Gill
and Beatty were slower. owing to fail
ure of their motors to catch on the
first cranking.
Two men went into the altitude
speed event. Beachey reached 2Goo feet
in little under minutes while Ea-
gene Ely failed to reach the distance
In his Curtiss
OF the seven airmen who ventured
cut in the wind today-Graham White,
Ovington. Stone and Cummings declin-
ing TO take the risk in their mono
planes-the most sensational work of
the day was by Lincoln BeacheY in
his headless 100 horsepower Curtiss.
The man who dared to soar over the
falls of Niagara and down through the
mists of the gorge, showed the fear
lessness of which he is made in a
l000-foot volplane directly down upon
the field at the conclusion of his alti-
tude trial. when his machine fairly
stood on end as he dropped like a
plummet until but a few hundred feet
above the spectators heads
Then followed a half-hours series OF
evolutions which kept the crowd
strained to the highest tension IN fear
and trembling. Quick turns. when
the Curtiss tipped almost vertically.
sudden drops, spirals deep banking
with rolls, which all but induced NAL
de mer, came in rapid succession and
gave an exciting close to the days
performances.