The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-11
AWATORS ATWOOD AND TAMIL GET FAR AS BALTIMORE Weather Again Interferes With Proposed Flight To
 Washington WILL TRY TO GET AWAY THIS MORNING Trip of 14S Miles Was Made With Only One Stop. Which Is
 Is Creditable Two-Pas-
 senger Record

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 Harry N. Atwood stated that he and his
 companion. Charles K. Hamilton, would | try to get away at a. m. tomorrow.
 He added that they would stop at College Park, Md, where the army aviation school | of instruction is located.
 This decision was reached after two
 futile attempts had been made at a flight | from the field, where the machine de- seconded this morning after a journey | which began at Atlantic City, N. J.. | | few minutes before , q. m., and ended at 9:23 o'clock half mile from the Penn sylvania railroad station at Steamers
 Run, approximately 14S miles from the starting point
 The flight had to be discontinued on account of the Intense heat and high humidity which made it almost impos-
 siblc for the aeroplane to attain a suffi- cient altitude. The same atmospheric til tomorrow morning.
 Forced by the intense heat, with it's &C., oompanying extremely high humidity to discontinue temporarily at least tlleir flight by aeroplane to Washington, Harry N. Atwood and Charles K. Hamilton, who left Atlantic City at 504 o'clock this morning in the latter's biplane, de- scended shortly after 9 o'clock near Stemmers Run station, 10 miles east of Bs itimore on the Pennsylvania rail- road and came to Baltimore by train. They travelled approximately 14S miles with but one stop, that at Farnhurst. Del, for gasoline This distance was 13 miles greater than Atwood carried his mechanician In the flight from Bos- ton to New London. Conn. Atlantic City, July 10.--Harry At wood and Charley" Hamilton chanced the elements again this morning and succeeded in making good getaway sst $. 50 o'clock on their flight to Wash I lHleu Shet5 4ney iai ed ptst or AISi
 they were making great speed, ham, pei ed by nothing more than a gentle W wasterly breeze. The weather was clear and Ideal for the air journey. Both men declared they would reach Bal timore by 10 o'clock and unless some thing untoward occurred we will be at least 100 miles from here by ' o'clock" confidently shouted Atwood as the machine lifted from the ground after a perfect getaway.
 The pair worked hard all yesterday aft ernoon getting the Hamilton biplane in shape for the trip. Parts of the machine in which Atwood made his flight here from New York were removed from the wrecked biplane and taken to Ventor, near here, shortly after the men had their narrow escape in the 75-foot plunge to earth yesterday.
 It was nightfall before the tail had been replaced, the blades adjusted, the under structure repaired and the bent and twist ed framework tuned up
 This morning Atwood and Hamilton left their hotel at o'clock and at 44S they wheeled the machine from the hangar. The start was made almost in the tracks made by the smashup of yesterday. Ev- erything worked perfectly. Atwood. with Hamilton seated beside him, lifted the machine to a travelling altitude of 400 feet First he circled over the meadows rear the ocean and then darted the plane for the coast line. When they passed out of sight they were going at lively gait and still mounting higher.
 Against Heavy Odds
 Baltimore, July 10.--The tale of the aerial journey as told by Atwood was of g. contest against heavy odds
 'The first part of the flight was delight full" he said. "rhe morning air was not so warm, but the humidity was high. Later we had a great deal of trouble in maintaining speed and elevation we fought to get elevation enough to clear the telegraph wires. Sometimes we were obliged to leave the railroad tracks, for we were dangerously near the ground.
 "One hour on the line was passed with the clearance of only about IS feet, and the trees almost brushed the wheels of the machine at some points. We landed at Steamers run, simply because the ma chine would not go any further under the weather conditions.
 Army Aviators Fly Washington, July 1O.-Though disap- pointed tonight at the failure of Aviator Harry N Atwood and his companion, Charles K Hamilton, to arrive from Bal timore the crowds awaiting them were treated to a surprise by the army avia- tors, who are in training at the army aviation school at College Park, Md, near here.
 | For a time a craft in the air was thought to be Atwood's, but 1t was soon learned that the bi-plane carried Lieu tenants Arnold and Kirtland. The avia- tors flew above the city at height of about 25OO feet and circled the dome of the capitol, darting back in the growing dusk to their hangar on the Maryland ground