Evening star., 1914-09-28
Gives Washington a Remark
able Exhibition of Death
Defying Feats.
OFFICIALS AND CITIZENS
WATCH HIS MANEUVERS
Loops-the-Loop at Height of $500
Feet, Volplanes 1000 Feet Upside
Down and Lands Lightly.

Lincoln Beachy'S halr-ralSlnS SUN .
in biplane of his own make this
morning caused the ambulance OF
Emergency Hospital, loaded with in
ternes, to make wild dash to the
polo field in Potomac Park. where, ac-
cording to a hurry call telephoned to
the hospital, the aviator had fallen
from a considerable height. When the
ambulance surgeons reached the polo
field Beachey was talking with his
mechanicians and others, the biplane
was being tinkered over in preparation
for another flight, and the ambulance
corps found the run had been made-in
hurry-up time, too-for nothing.
Looping the loop and doing other
death-defying feats high in the air,
Beachey gave Washington. officials and
citizens, such an exhibition Of avia-
tion as had never been witnessed in the
National Capital. His closing perform
ance, during which he cut off his power
while the biplane was at an estimated
height Of $500 feet, looped the loop.
and, righting himself after volplaning
fully 1000 feet upside down. landed
lightly as a wind-blown leaf, was the
climax of a performance such as Wash
ington residents have read Of, but
never have seen.
Flirts With Goddess Of Liberty.
Beachey made his first flight. starting
from the ellipse at IL o'clock and fly
ing to the Capitol.
The Capitol grounds. the roofs Of sur
rounding buildings, the dome of the
Capitol and all the windows Of the
cfr
women waiting to see the aviator.
They were not disappointed by lack
Of aerial antics.
Beachey fiirted with the Goddess of
Liberty by sailing around her three
times. At one time he took his hands
the wonders stricken gallery Of people
on the tiptop of the Capitol. In addt-
tion he ''looped the loop" three times.
and then sped straight for the Wash
inEton Monument.
A casualty on the ground was mar.
rowly averted when Representative
Calleway Of Texas, with his eyes gazing.
at the looping aviator. was almost run
over by street car.
Report Causes Ambulance Run.
sfiying back to the polo field in -Po-
tomac Park. -Beachey landed, prepara-
tory for his second flight. It was at
this time that the ambulance from
Hospital made its run in re-
sponse to a message from some one
who mistook the aviator's precipitous
landing for a fall.
In his second fight Beachey sent his
biplane over the business section of the
city. He looped the loop repeatedly.
the big sign 1ettered on the top Of the
upper plane Of the machine showing
plainly each time. Flying back to the
polo fiel6 .s mounted IN ,spirals, per-
forming all sorts of aerial evolutions.
such as tipping the machine from side
to side at an angle Of fully 45 degrees.
At the top Of the spiral ascent, when
the biplane had dwindled to the size
Of a pigeon, or smaller. the aviator cut
off his power and began gliding down.
ward at terrific speed.
Slowly the machine turned over until
1t was coasting downward upside
down, the aviator's hands and arms
waving earthward as the machine.
without power and guideless. hurtled
toward the ground A few hundred feet
from the earth Beachey as slowly
righted the biplane and, with power
still cut of, made his landing.