The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-11
I. I. FUTILE
 BADLY INJURED
 IN AERO CRASH
Manager of Curtiss Aero Meet Here Meets Mishap Trying
 Baldwin Machine
Giant Plane Upends in Making Landing and Aviator is
 Pitched HeadlOng

Thomas T. Futile. who ran the Cur tiss aviation meet in this city, and who made a host of acquaintances in this town during the several months in which he stayed here, was serious ly, perhaps fatally, injured at Mineola yesterday when Capt T. s. Baldwin's s Red Devil'' flyer with Futile at the wheel, threw out the unfortunate aV1a- tor like a catapult in attempting landing.
 When the aeroplane abruptly up ended while running at seventy miles an hour, Futile was pitched headiong out of the seat and hurled seventy five feet He struck the ground head foremost and his body continued to revolve over the ground like cart wheel at least a dozen times before It came to a stop. When the horr1hed spectators came up they found the un- fortunate novice doubled up with his head twisted under his arm.
 NOT EXPECTED TO SURVIVE
 His face, body, arms, legs and head are badly torn and he suffered severe concussion of the brain. He was un- conscious for over three hours after the accident occurred.
 Early this morning the physicians were still unable to determine the na- ture of the injuries to Tuttle's head and were anxious about his condition. It is not expected that he will sur vive.
 Futile, although a young man, IS one of the most popular in American aviation. He was the founder and first president of the Aero Club of Pennsylvania. He abandoned news paper work in Philadelphia to join the Curtiss forces in New York He was ambitious to become an aviator and | recently became affiliated with Cap tain Thomas $. Baldwin for whom he was to act as demonstrator. About dusk Futile was ordered tc make his first trial flight in the bi- plane known as the Red Devil. The craft is very swift and sensitive.
 REARED AND PITCHED HIM OUT | Futile flew creditably on a straight away stretch toward the western enc of the field, but as he came skimmins back it was apparent he was in trou | ble. The aeroplane bobbed up anc down like cork on troubled water.
 Suddenly, just as it touched thu | ground, the biplane reared. The iron control dug deep into the ground ant the tail stood straight up. In spite O | the intervening wires, Futile wa pitched out of the seat as if he hat been shot from a catapult. | Doctor Cleghorne, who was on tn ground, rushed over to attend tn l avia tor, whose unconscious form wa | taken to another part of the field.
 Here the physician worked over hin | for ain hour before he deemed it saf to remove him to the Nassau hos | pital.
 DOCTOR WORKED BY MOONLIGHT
 Darkness had fallen, shortly afte the accident, and the physician ha l to minister to his patient by the l1gh of the moon which flooded the desert ed field Most of those who wor about the place had gone home, an only a few of Tuttle's fellow student saw the accident.
 | The aeroplane was demolished, tn
 only uninjured portion of the craf
 being the motor. By some miracle
 remained fastened to it's bed.
 It is believed the accident wa caused by Tuttles anxiety to make
 safe landing He was trying the man euver by which skilled aviators usu
 ally land while running at full pow
 CT.
 few moments before Futile mad
 his disastrous flight the few specta
 tors were frightened by the peril (
 Rowland Middleton, a Brooklyn bo. who is learning to ride the same ma
 chine. He had made two circles ( the field when the craft was struck b
 gust of wind, careened wildly an
 slid rapidly toward the ground. Mic
 dleton, however, managed to right
 within a few inches of the earth.