The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-07
AVIATION
 MEET NEXT
FOUR FAMOUS FLYERS TO DE- LIGHT THE PEOPLE OF HOT
 SPRINGS AT oAkLAWN.
Out of Town Interest in the Big Meet Is Growing Daily as the Date Ap- proaches--Weather Proof Avia-
 tors Have Been Secured.

tors Have Been Secured. Now that the horse show is well under way the people of Hot Springs and the visitors are turning their attention to the aviation meet at Oak lawn next week. March 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16. Already the thousands are making their preparations to attend this big air exhibition, which will be the most extensive ever attempt ed as a winter meet in the South.
 Four, possibly five, aviators of na- tional and International repute have signed contracts to fly in Hot Springs next week aud their machines are now en route to this city. AS an in- dication of the distance from which this field of aviators come, it might be mentioned that Nels Nelson, who has made some of the greatest over sea flights of any other aviator, ship ped his machine from a Massachu- sets coast town two or three days ago in order that it might reach here in plenty of time for trial tests before the meeting.
 Another aviator comes from Wash ington, D. C., and still another from Chicago. Manager Quinn is negoti- ating for others, and it is possible that half a dozen flyers may be seen at Oaklawn during single after noon.
 Mr. Quinn inspected Oaklawn park yesterday and made arrangements for the alteration of the course to make starting and landing field right in front of the grand stand This will afford a. feature never before accom- plished-to have the flyers start with in a few feet of the spectators in the stsnd, and after their flights to alight in the same spot Spectators at the meet will not be compelled to. run all over a 20acre field to see the start ing and landing process. They will sit comfortably in the spacious grand stand and near enough the aviators to converse with them if they desire.
 Jimmie Ward, one of the aylators. is already in the city, with his fla nous aeroplane Shooting Star" He has been making daily trips to Oak lawn park. looking over the field, ob- serving the direction of the wind and the air currents and gathering other data which a successful flyer must have in order not to disappoint the crowds.
 Nels J, Nelson, who started from Massachusetts three days ago, will probably arrive here the latter part of the week. He will fly a brand new type of bi-plane. the Mills. The Mills company manufactures aero. planes and hydro aeroplanes. A Con- necticut newspaper where he has been making flight tests, has the following to say of him:
 "The announcement made today that Nels J. Nelson of the Mills avia- tors is to appear at the Hot Springs, Ark, meet, which is confidently ex peeted to be the greatest aid tourna- ment ever held south of the Ohio river, is an indication of the charac- ter of aviators who will drive their aeroplanes there.
 Nelson, by his. many flights throughout the land, has taken no small part in writing the aviation history of two continents.
 He has been here for two weeks conducting a series of experiments with a new type of Mills hydro aero plane. Last week he made two sue cessful flights in 45-mile gale along the coast of New England, following the coast of the Atlantic for S5 miles with the thermometer registering , degrees below zero"
 The other aviators who will be seen here are all spectacular and plucky flyers Manager Quinn stat ed that he might possibly have se- cured men who were better known in this locality, but in signing up his 1 flyers he has endeavored to secure those who are weather and wind proof, in order that the crowds may not be disappointed The men have signed 80 far" said MT. Quinn, twill fly if s.z aeroplane can live in the> weathes prevailing at the time.
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