The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-19
NILES LOOPS LOOP
5000 FEET IN AIR
YOnug Aviator Performs Trick
for First Time Over Hemp
stead Field.
THEN DOES side ROLL"
Veterans Gasp at Hair Rails
ing Feats in Face
Of q Gale.

Chsrles r. Niles. the twenty-four- year
old aviator from Rochester. looped the
loop at Hampstead yesterday. the first
time the feat has been accomplished In
New York. The looping was simple com
pared with other hair raising stunts the
young avietor performed in the face of a
tricky gale.
lie pointed his machine straight toward
the clouds and let It slip down back
ward several hundred feet--tall sliding
they call 1t. He banked hts monopiane
against the wind and let 1t slide sideways
toward the earth. Then with the help Of
the wind and by swaying his body, he
rolled the machine over and over side
ways as a child rolls down a sand pile.
All this was in the face Of fifty-five
mile wind and from 1000 to 5000 feet
above the hangers. Not more than fifty
persons saw the flight. including two off,
cial observers from the Aero Club Of
America. Side rolling. they said, had
never been done in an aeroplane before
By Pegoud, Beachey or any of the famous
trick hiers.
Even the Veterans Amazed.
Practically every one who saw Niles
ny yesterday was a iier himself or at
least acquainted with the theory Of flying.
But when Niles began to slip sideways
toward the hangers even the veterans
were inclined to run to cover. Most OF
the death falls have occurred when the
aviator found himself sldeslipping and
could not regain control. Even Alfred ].
Moisant. for whom Niles is flying, was
mighty uneasy.
Hes sideslipping he's a goner now"
some one said to Mr.. Moisant.
I hops not" Mr.. Moisant said. Then
Niles caught himself. came right side up
In graceful curve and every one breathed
easier.
Niles tried three times to loop the loop
on February 2. but failed. His motor
stopped when his machine was pointed
vertically upward and he slid backward
then sideways. 300 feet before he finally
righted the monoplane and volplaned to
an easy landing. That fall was an acci-
dent.
Yesterday Niles looped the loop and
then he purposely put his machine
through the other falling stunts that were
accidents before. He did II to prove to
critics who had empha sized the accidental
side of his former flight that ne could
put his machine in any position and regain
control.
Niles used Moisant monoplane tractor
with a ffty horsepower Gn0me engine,
the same machine he used on February 3,
and II had not been OF the ground since
He rose for the first flight at asst p. NJ,
and assembled about $500 feet In a spiral.
He would have Topped then. but his en-
CINE was skipping and ne knew 1t would
no. carr, him over. He turned the nose
OF the machine down and under. then out
again. forming a letter S as he came
down to meet his mechan!cianA He lost
his aneroid In this performance
Mechanic!ans worked over the motor a
few minutes. then he started again. He
went up 5000 feet this time circlng over
the aerodrome on the half circle
against the wind he made scarcely six
miles an hour. though the engine was
doing slxty-ive miles an hour
Hes upside down." some one
shouted.
Niles had forced the little monoplane
over in the first part of the loop and