Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-05
NOTED AVIATOR
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.-..2 tCCntiHped from rage ID
for years a navigator of ocean steam
ships, CAPTAIN Martin was the invent
or and chief demoastrater Of the Mar
tin type OF aeroplanes, and was for
many years closely connected with
the CITtiss Company and the Wright
brothers. 49,. -. :..... /
Before taking UP aeronautics, Cap
tain Martin was master OF vessel
plying between Seattle and Alaskan
ports, and six wears ago he was called
To Harvard University for the purpose
of installing q number of navigation
tables. While in the east he became
interested in the then newly-intro-
duced art Of flying, and fora time fol-
, lowed closely the workings. of thei
Herring -CurtisS Company, and be-
came connected with this firm at the
time Glen II. Curtiss won the first in
ternatioaaf Gordon Bennett speed tro-
ply A short time afterWard he or
sanized the Harvard Aeronautieat So
ciety and was the designer of the first
glider in the world to leave the,
ground from skids.' After the Harvard
Society had been established on firm
basis, Captain Martin went more fully
into his new work, designing and be-
| lag the first to fly in, the Harvard BIZ |
plane, which carried an engine weigh
| ing $50 pounds, developing less than
sixteen horsepower -...s -. -.
Organized Big Aviation Work -.
Following in the footsteps of his So
ciety at Harvard, Captain Martin was
prominent in the organization of the
National Council of the Aero Clubs of
America, organized the Harvard-B os-
ton aviation meet and brought Ora
ham-White, the noted aviator, to
America. Shortly after, be organized
the Philadelphia aero meet. -
In December. 1910, Captain Martin
transferred his operations to England
and while there flew Farman and
BleTiot machines with such success
that he became pilot of the Royal
Aero Club of the United Kingdom and
chief Instructor of the Graham White
school at the London aerodrome.
While thus engaged, he won the prize
for the first flight both ways betweeni
Hendon and Weybridge in competition
with seven of the worlds greatest
ayiators. -: & :. n. s..-..
1t was at this time that he also es-i
tablished the first regular passenger
service in England and carried the
first passenger over the city of Lon
| don. During his instructorship at the1
London aerodrome, Captain Martin
trained large number of pupils in
the art of flying. Many of his pupils
~ No off oirn6 nrld 20
Miss Lily Irvine, who he afterward
married, who was the first woman of
the English-speaking race to operate
an aeroplane alone, and the first wo-
man of any nationality to fly in
America. r. j..
Sets Worlds Records III u
In August, 1917 at Chicago, Cap
tain Martin established new worlds
record for accuracy in alighting,
within one foot and three inches from
the place he started from ON a two
mile flight. This feat was accom-
plished in a machine that Captain
Martin was chiefly instrumental in de-
veloping. In October of the same
year he produced the fastest biplane
in the world and attained a speed of
seventy-two miles an hour in still air.
This machine won immediate recog-
milton in American and foreign jour-
nails as design embodying the most
recent aerodynamical advance sup
piled in a practical and simple man
Iner. The United States army. at that
time negotiated for the purchase of
the machine. Last year Capt. Martin
flew at the Seattle. Potlatch H.. -.
The facts mentioned above consti-
tuto but a brief resume of what has
been accomplished by Captain Martin
during the time he has been an aEia-
tor. He was the inventor and de-
signer of an aeroplane which broke;
the worlds record for speed a year
ago last November, flying a distancei
of seyenty=two, miles, in one hour
This record was made at New York. !!
Would Awaken Interest ...... ]
Capt Martin is now in Hawaii but!
has not given up entirely all thought
of aviation. 5s@,:..... T.. ..&..
There is nothing in the business in
the states just now" he said yester-
day, "and / thought ] would come to
Hawaii and take UP my old profession
again. - ":.... a.. ,-.~
ut is remarkable how little realiza-
ton the United States has of what is
going on in the, world Of aviation. We
have hardly any clubs or societies.
The government is doing practically
nothing to keep pace with the tremen-