Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-30

stretch his eevating planes tilted and once more he
rose into the air to make a long Jump for home.
He seemed to have unusually good control of the
chine for novice 1t rode keel in spite of side
wind; but as he neared and it became dangerous for
him to any farther with the power of his engine
in full force, we saw that he was struggling with
something with his right hand and that he trouble
Suddenly and without word of warning there were
four rapid explosions fast that they seemed like one
bits and pieces of something went flying all about
through the and the aeoplane sank to the ground
like bird that has been shot and there it smashed into
thousand fragments. And the AVIATOR He crawled
out of the wreckage unscathed. How he escaped is
mystery. We learned that he had tried to stop his
CINE the first Jump down the feld but the throttle
wire had broken and he had not thought to cut off his
spark.
&c. when he reached the lower boundaries of the field
there nothing for it but to turn the ground at
full speed and try to stop the engine the back
He trying to reach the throttle when the explosion
occurred. An examination showed us that the heads
of all four cylinders had blown completely off; frag
of iron and steel had been hurted through the
planes and had snapped guy wires and the whole
framework had crumpled like eggshell. Yet the
aviator had not received so much as a scratch
YOU get to be fatalist in spite of yourself if you
watch these fedgings long. Last summer there
twenty-seven machines in the Enclosure of the
Aeronautical Society," and nearly a dozen the
walton of the Aero Club of America a little farther
along the edge of the flying field do not believe
there of these machines that was not smashed
sometime in the flying months, and some were smashed
dozens OF times Yet not one OF the fedgngs was badly
hurt.
You see men go up and suddenly slump down, you
hear TIE grinding AMI shrieng of splntered wood
see the whole thing roll into Shapeless of
wreckage with the aviator buried somewhere in it. and
you down the field to gather up his remains; but
when you get there you find him calmly lighting Gig
arette softly swearing to himself doing OF
the thousand and things that you would have taken
oath he would never be able to do again Then is
back the shed with the pieces and put them together
fast possible that he can take 1t out and try all
again.
This summer there will be more machines than ever
in add he at
Park, only few miles away, all taken tor flying
Fledglings springng up everywhere. Where
they get the money to spend these expensive play
things and how they afford the time they take
questions that seems to ask. Only, every once
in awhile one of the familiar faces will disappear
week two will eapse and then his machine will be
taken from the shed and dumped on the "boneyard'
behind the big building No explanation will be asked
given. 1t will be generally understood that the
1edgngs finances have become exhausted and that he
is longer able to pay rent for his space In the she'd
THIS @boneyard" as the avators call it. is pathetic
looking heap of shattered aeroplanes and smashed
hopes. Here, piled Unfortunately together like
much junk, are all that remains of machines upon
which men have spent hundreds of dollars and many
hopeful hours of experiment and construction work.
Some of them actually flew and then the money gave
out. Others freaks of the weirdest type-furnshed
to spectators and despair to their builders
and finally piled among the hopeless failures
Still Others showing excellent workmanship and good
ideas, thrown here because their inventors and
builders did fully realize the cost of construction
and went broke when the work perhaps only half
finished.
Under the pile you still the framework of
fantastic thing conceived by young Japanese 1t
failed The inventor had no more money, and today
you will find him in shed behind McLaughlns hotel
doing aeroplane workmanship that is marvel of hand
craft-but all for someone else.
Out in the boneyard there is another monstrosty 1t
built to follow the lines of bird they might have
been seen by with bad case of astgmatsm. Not
Confined on p-gs is