Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-28
SPIN ABOUT IN AIR
FIiers at College Park Make
Short Trips.
INTEREST IN AERO RACE
Arrangements Being Made for Ben
nett Cup Contest.
ARMY AvIAT0RS MAY ENTER
Will Not Do So odicially, However.
Paul Peck Returns to
City.
INTEREST IN AERO RACE
ARMY AvIAToRs MAY ENTER

Flying at College Park yesterday
was restricted to couple Of spins by
Lieut.. b. D. Foulois in the Wright
machine and couple of short passen-
ger carrying flights by Charles Welsh
in the new double control Curtiss ma
chine that has been ordered, but not
yet accepted by the War Department.
Lieut.. Harold Geiger was the passen-
ger. No attempt was made to give the
new machine an official trial, as the
only member Of the trial board present
was Capt Charles de Forest Chandler,
the officer In charge Of the field.
The new machine is the biggest aero
plane that has yet been on the field.
1t has a spread of forty-two feet and is
designed to meet the War Depart
ment specifications that call for a
speed Of forty-five miles an hour, capacity
for a passenger and the ability to climb
2.O00 feet in ten minutes with load of
$50 pounds. The machine met all of
these requirements unoHcially while
at the winter camp at Augusta, Ga,
except the climbing test.
Look Forward to Race.
The individual members Of the ny
ing squad at the War Department are
AO0hAh6 All W dAu Win AASSAC 6t " TIC
American race for the Gordon Bennett
cup that is planned for Chicago in
September.
the first great American circuit race
that has ever been held in the United
States. Provisional arrangements for
the circuit have already been made.
waukee, st. Louis, Cincinnati and
number Of intervening points. Prizes
have been Professionally subscribed that
Will insure about 100000 for the race.
This will not be in few big prizes. but
according to present arrangements
will be divided into sections. making
a first prize Of $4,000 for the race,
with other smaller prizes. The re-
mainder Of the money will be divided
time in daily flights, flights made with
the least horsepower, flights with an
automatic stabilizer and passenger
carrying flights.
Point Not Settled.
It has not been settled how far apart
the controls will be and what the daily
duration Of the flights shall be. The off,
GERS who would like to enter in their
private capacity say that II the daily
flights are to consist Of a short dash,
the race will be q gift to some Of the
fast French monoplanes. but IL the ma
chimes are sent away from Chicago with
out restriction as to the length Of the
daily flight IL will introduce the element
Of human and machine endurance into the
race. and the best combination Of man
and machine will win in the end. II that
is the case, there will be show for some
Of the slower American biplanes II this
arrangement Is made 1t Is practically GER
tain that some Of the army officers will
enter the circuit race. The War Depart
ment will not enter any machines or men
officially, but 1t is likely that some Of
the officers will take leave and enter as
did Lieut.. Conneau Of the French army,
who flew in the big European circuit
races a. Andre Beaumont.
Confers With OMcer.
Grover Cleveland Looming, the aero
ment yesterday in consultation with Capt.
w. I. Chambers over monoplane hy-
droplane he is building at Bayonne, N. ].
He went to College Park in the course Of
the afternoon to see the flying there.
Paul Peck. the Washington aviator.
has returned to Washington after an
exhibition tour in the south. On this
trip. at Montgomery, Ala, he broke one
worlds record and another American rec
ord with the little one-man bfplane Of
his own design he Is flying. The worlds
record was for climbing, when he made
500 feet in three minutes, the record be-
ing previously held by Garros, with 3.2A
for the same distance
In the speed contest with Jimmy Ward,
one OF the fastest American flyers. he
made sixty-five miles an hour. Neither
of these records was official. but he
promises to repeat them under official
observation at College Park.