Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-09-09
AVIATOR IS HERI:
 READY FOR FLIGHT
OSCAR |. BKlNDLEi, WHO BROKE WORLDS RECORD AT CHICAGO,
 IN THE CITY
TALKS OF AVIATION
Will Make Flight at Forest Park on September f4-Describes His
 Car.

Oscar A. Brindley, who will fly in
 Wright biplane at Forest Park on
 White Way Day-September IA, ar
 rived in the city yesterday from Mem
 phs, where he made several success
 ful flights September 1, 2 and B. go-
 ing as high as 6,OOO feet on the last
 day.
 MT. Brindley is Columbus. Ohio
 boy, and has been flying since March,
 1911. He is Wright student and
 has been remarkably successful. He
 is but 24 years old. At the recent
 International Aviation Meet in Chi
 cago Mir. Brindley carried away $S,-
 900 in prizes and made a record of 11,759 feet in the high flying. He was connected with the American Aiators there. and won third prize in the
 Grand Endurance event, remaining in
 the air g hours and 40 minutes.
 In speaking of the conditions here for his flight the coming week MT Brndlev said. "The Forest Park field is very difficult aviation field, but with the trees cleared away for five hundred feet across and two hundred feet wide in addition 10 the open field that already stands there, we will in all probability be able to give a most
 satisfactory exhibition. l; requires about 175 feet for an avia;G 10 lift the earth it scars easily. My machine weighs HOO pounds equipped with gasoline and oil It is g feet, inches in length and in about 36 feet in fore and aft. It is Wright model B, one of the largest machines made by the Wright company. It has a speed of about forty miles an hour.
 "A Burgess Wright car will be brought here for emergency sake. It is not known at this time, however, whether the machine will be used in this city They will arrive about Tuesday. It will require two freight cars to transport the machines to this city with the hangar"
 What is the feeling of an aviator while several thousand feet above the earth?" MT. Brindley was asked
 There is absolutely no more sen- sation to it than if you were riding in an ordinary automobile. Of course this is the feeling after you have been in the air number of times, but when I first began flying the feeling was little unusual"
 In speaking of the many accidents that are recorded almost daily over I' the country MT. Brindley said most of | them are due to carelessness of the operator, over confidence in the ma chine and himself. Frequently air are to blame, but if an avia- tor keeps his wits with him at all times he can overcome many of the { troublesome air currents.
 Mr. Brindley will remain here un- til after White Way Day. He came { ahead of his companions in order to inspect the field and to aid the local committee in preparing it, He is stopping at the Hotel Jefferson. (
 MT. Brindley is highly educated young man of fine appearance and z is thoroughly in love with the air I sport. He got his first training at i he Wright Company's training { grounds at Dayton, Ohio. His trainor ' vas C. J. Turpin, one of the Wright 1 ,rew. He spent only two hours and
 fifty minutes in the air before mak- ng a successful flight. According to Nr. Brindley it is no difficult matter o operate an aeroplane. In fact, he 'ays, it compares in way with an ' In an automobile, he ( 'ays, you have to watch out for pedes- rains and other obstacles in the z treets, while in the air there is noth- ng to bother you unless you collide '. with passing cloud or bump into the noon or the sun. Occasionally he | avs aviators get up flirtations with he Angels, but none of them have yer been able to enter the matrimon- U al game as they did not stay long { nought up there" to push their uits.
 MT. Brindley says there is nc fear (