Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-06
WOMAN WHO TOOK
FLIGHT IN AERO
DESCRIBES TRIP
Mrs. E. Bnrd Grub Says She
Will Take Another Aerial
Journey Any Time.
ENJOYED SENSATION OF
LEAVING THE EARTH
Sister of Noted English Airman
Becomes Enthusiastic
y Over Aviation.

Most people begin by saying they
would be afraid to go up in an aero
plane. After they have seer q few
flights they think they would k TO
take . trip. And when they've. once
made . night they want to make an
other"
This was the statement today given
an Evening STAR reporter by Mrs. e.
Burd Grub, wife of General Grub,
commandant of the Home for Disabled
Soldiers at Kearny, and sister of
Thomas sopwith, an English aviator
on the eve of her trip to England 10
visit her sister and brother-in-law
Mr.. J. B. Joel, of London and st. Al
bans. winner of the famous coronation
derby.
In aeroplane knowledge Mrs. Grub
is an expert, not only because of her
brothers skill as an aviator, but be-
cause she has been a passenger on his
big Howard Wright biplane.
my brother started to fly in England
Il think it was In Kent-last October.
He made his first flight on a Monday.
by llO lOllOh lhS
broken every British record. And The
peculiar thing about 1t was that he had
no instructions to start with.
THE big prize TOMMY was sur
prised to hear everyon call him
Tommy at the Point Breeze race track,
Philadelphia, when he took me up with
him for a fight-won was the $4,000
prize given by Baron de Forest to the
airman who made the longest flight On
an all British machine. Tommy few
from the Isle of %Sheppey. Beaumont,
Belgium, about It's miles, crossing tho
English channel. Graham White was
in thai race, but he a ar accident
I think he fell somewhere near Dover.
Tommy has only been over here
: since May. He brought with him a
Gnomc- Bleriot monoplane and a How
ard Wright biplane. Sui at. the old
graveyard turn at Mineola he had an
accident with the monoplane so that at
Philadelphia. where he started to make
his first real American flights, he used
his biplane.
"I went UP on the second OF thru
day he flew at the Point Breeze track
and l was the first woman passenger, |
think. he took up after he came to MS
country. 1t was a perfectly celigh ftl
sensation. 1t is one difficult to describe
because IL is so unique. 1 was Sitting
$ directly behind my brother. l had no
feeling of insecurity whatever.
eve started so gradually that l
hardly knew we were moving. We
slid off from the earth by apparently
In 7nitesimal degrees. l did not know
when we he'd left the earth.
"Of course, Tommy is especially good
in his ascents and landings. | have
seen quite a little flying since he came
! over here and l have noticed by con-
trast how wonderfully smooth his flying
Is. As to the motion itself, when once
we were in the air, it was-well. exhil-
arating. And at the same time 1T was
restful. There is no motion at all that
can be likened to it. I felt as if I were
! swimming through the air like a bird.
And / didn't feel a bit giddy. 1t isn't
like looking down from a steep building.
Everyone I have spoken to who has
been in an aeroplane says the same
thing.
"Of course, we couldn't talk when we
were making the fight because of the
u,hirring of the motor. but even that
noise was not at all unpleasant.
"a few days afterward Tommy dis
appeared from the aviation grounds.
when he came back he said that he
had made a fight around the City Hall,
Philadelphia, which was a rather Won
derfuI thing to do, I think. lust now he
is flying at Garden City, L. l.
Tommy was always interested in
speed. He has a ~penchant for fast