The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-03

IN READINESS
FOR BIRDMAN

Captain Paul Boyton stated today
that every detail of his arrangements
for the flying exhibitions at Steeple-
chase Island next Friday, Saturday
and Sunday afternoon May 5, and
Z, by Earle L. Ovington are now COM
plete and while he may not make his
flight across the Sound as proposed.
he will be here with his 20 horsepower
Bleriot racing monoplane tomorrow,
ready to give the opening exhibition
Friday afternoon. Ovington was in
New York yesterday making the ar
rangements for the shipment of his
machine to Bridgeport
The newspapers OF New York city
continue to praise the work of Owing
ton and to give him the credit of be-
ing the Speediest aviator in America
today. That he is absolutely fearless
is beyond question and there is no
such word in his vocabulary as super
stition. He rode with Leblanc his first
time in the air, on the 18th of the month,
made his first flight on a 18th day and
a Friday and was number 13 among
the French aviators while abroad. He
thinks it is a huge joke thai I1oyhs
London insurance exchange refused to
insure his life for an annual premium
of 40 per cent
Ovington feels as safe in his Bleriot
machine as the ordinary person does
in a trolley car. What he is thinking
of most, is not his own life, but the
possibility ofdamaging his machine.
He has eco invested IN it and he ex-
poets to make some new records this
summer. The machine is named "The
ers expressive of its characteristics.
In an article upon the aviators now
at Belmont Park the New York Tel
egraph says:
The aviator who commands most at
tention is the American. Earle l..
Ovington. His fight, circling the
grounds several times on Tuesday last,
Late on Wednesday he flew from the
course of the Westchester Racing AS
ISOLATION to Mineoia and back
Ovington, formerly a consulting cleo
trical engineer, was for more than four
months at the flying fields il France,
such as Pau, Mourmelon. Rheims,
Duari and Etempes. He went to the
der Alfred L,ablanc with whom he
made several flights. He flew the
second time he was in a machine. the
third time making a flight of five
miles at the height of three hundred
feet. He passed his pilots aviator'S
license at the Aero Club of France,
the highest authority in aviation to-
lay, winch enaDleS MIN TO enter INTO
any meet in any country in the inter
national federation. The machine he
flies in is the first so far, the only
Bleriot monoplane fitted with the 1911
10 horsepower seven cylinder Gnome
rotating engine. The machine is al
so the first 1911 model which the
Bleriot factory turned out. The prin-
cipal difference between the new
model and the previous model being
the long enclosed hood. and the new
inverse curved tail The speed across
is guaranteed to average over
20 miles an hour He has flown as
nigh as three thousand feet in the air.
This machine will make ten miles per
hour faster than any other machine
IN America. Mr.. Ovington stands
ready today to challenge any aviator
n America against time. This ma
chine cost, as it stands at the present
lime. over $4,000. Mr.. Ovington will
guarantee to make flights. and will
1y in his machine with the wind blow
ng anywhere UP to twenty miles per
lour unless it is unusually gusty, and
lie will also make flights in the rain.