The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-08
Curtiss Aviator Flies High
Above Hills and Holds Great
Crowd BreathlesS.
BOMBS FALL WITH AMAZING
ACCURACY ON "WARSHIP"
Three Birdmen Demonstrate
That Battleships Are Easy
Prey for Air Craft.
Continued From Page One.

TO bits. 1t was easy to see that the most
powerful floating engine OF war would
be useless against fleet Of these busy
aeroplanes, which needed only one man
and basket of bombs each
Army and naval officers detailed by
the government were intensely p!ease..
with both the altitude flight OF Ely ana
the bomb dropping tests OF the Others.
They declared that Ely hnd conclus.rsy
ing aeroplanes at high attitudes. There
has always been a question al TO Whetner
aeroplanes could attain a high aItltuSe; iSf.
high above sea level. Paulhan. when he
was here, declared that II would ne I'M
PTsS,n rTonnd at e this altitude because there was
not enough buoyancy in the atmosphere
Records Easily Broken,
AT the meets heretofore the meSimum
altitude has been about 1900 feet above
the surface of the field, Ely's achieve
msst IN reaching maImn Il1Hee rkabe IN n
view OF past theories concerning the
, rarity OF the atmosphere The machine
in which he made the night Iifa was ,d pT,Is his
| associates expressed surprise that Ely
was able to take it so high.
When Ely. crossed the mountain range
near Garfield the army officers we're par
ticulsrly delighted, The sailing over
mountains is always considered particu-
| larlv hazardous because. In case anything
goes wrong with the machine. there is
no place In which to alirht with any
assurance Of safety. AS a practical adj
vantage Of Ely's flight. the army officers
mountains the future method OF trans
porting armies over impossible noun
| tain ranges. A fleet OF aeroplanes, they
declared. could be made to transport an
army quickly over hills that would other
wise prove impossible, and they would
also eliminate the danger OF falling into
ambush in the mountain Businesses.
Naval Officers Pleased.
Tho bomb dropping they declared was
perfect. They declared that navies would
be helpless In warfare against the new
destructive agencies found In the aero
planes. One orange dropped by. Willard
| went directly In the center of the circle
/ marking one of the tunnels Of the battle
ship Willard aimed al the funnel and
his orange went In H. Naval officers said
that bomb dropped in battleship''s S
funnel would certainly completely cripple
the ship
Walter Brookins. the daring Wright
reckless spiral gldes Some OF them
were made so close To the ground that
his plane. tilted almost 10 the perpendicu-
, lar. Just grazed the ground. He came
down from an altitude OF nearly 1000
feet In series of tiny circles. twisting
about In less than the machines length
Alarm Is Occasioned,
The aerial show opened with flight
by. Eugene, Ely; Ely left the ground
was flying low and disappeared quickly
behind ridge, Al first IL was feared
that he had fallen into the lake % S nc
conSidera hle alarm was occasioncd. Phi
Parmalee, the Wright aviator. who fol
lowed Ely into the air, reconnoitered over
the spot where Ely went down and re
ported that the Curtiss man had descend
I'd on the beach and was safe. He haC
experienced some trouble and descended
To- repair the motor.
The place where Ely landed was de-
cidedly soft and The wheels OF the
chine sank deep In the mud Despite the
poor place in which Ely found himself
after he had repaired the motor he
erly though he were hying from sole
; ground. He was cheered as he passed
over the field, He then circled nortI
over the foothills of the Wasatch climb
ing rapidly His elevating planes were
pointed upward and he climbing
steadily I'll the time. In addition io
climbing, higher he was going .farthe,
away all the time and he was miles oul
from the aviation field when he PASSED
over the, Great Salt lake. He turned
east over Garfield and then went over
Bingham.
Thanks of smeltermen.
All OF the u,en a; the Garfield smelier,
were ont watching the flight and the,
cheered Loudly as the aviator passed. hlgf
above them. From the men in Tho
The Tribune:
THE men Of the Garfield sn,elters Wish
10 thank the aviation men for the nigh
over the smelters n was the best ad
! vertiscmcpt they could use and all OF tn,
{ men VIII attend the meeting on sunday
81 From the aviation field. Ely WAS but E
dot on the mountain snow, apparently
{ moving very slowly. but in reality gons
{ at a mile minute clip. Finally he wen
. out OF sight and only few. with TIM