The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-17
Accomplishes Feat That Cost Beachey's Life--Also
Flies Upside Down for Mile, Making
Double Aerial Record.

Charles Niles OF Rochester few up
the first time the feat has been at.
tempted in this country. He looped the
loop thus burdened. also for the first
time in this country. with a monoplane.
The passenger was Stevenson Magordon
OF Chicago, who weighs $50 pounds.
A thick cloud bank. darker and lower
than the rest. was drifting laxily over
Hampstead Plains. A score of mechanics
and few others were watching ii.
shading their eyes from tho patch or
sun. Into that cloud DO Anything Niles
had just steered his brand new mono
plane with Magordon in the tandem sea;
ahead The purr OF the little gyro-
motor had stopped when the machine
entered the cloud. The handful Of me-
chanics waited and wondered.
Half a minute-lt seemed an hour
then the big bird came tumbling out o:
the mist, Hopping this way and that ike
a piece OF paper fiuttering from house
top. II dropped nose first now side
ways; II rolled upside down and righiec'
then the purr of the motor began and
tho folks on the ground breathed easier
as the machine circled gracefully over
the hangers and began to climb Tor
another stunt.
steve Magordon is an aviator. and
good one. but he has never tried trick
eying Niles had looped with him
LAT hA
fall, Topping as 1t would in the wind
then he had started the motor ano
rigb,.d the machine 400 feet above the
spectators.
Iooped the Loop Five Times.
Niles looped five times yesterday with
Nacordon in the passengers seat twice
they few upside down. one time ha''
mile. the next more than mile In
every flight the little motor sk,ppeu
neryously and once they were obliged
10 come down and let the mechahics
tinker with it for an hour.
Nagordon wasn't overanxious to be
the first looping passenger and 1t was
not until yesterday morning that Niles
persuaded him TO go. Niles is the only
monoplane looper in this country
Reachey had always used bplane until
his last flight. Magordon Is biplane
nier and knows the dangers OF testing
a rev machine with aerial stunts lhat
il how Beachey was killed,
Magordon was on the field with Niles
at o'clock yesterday morning ready
, IN go. but IL was noon before the clouds
ufted high enough for looping. by
that time the mechanics and helpers
in the haEgars-Niles calls them the
cold Feet Association and deslgnates
one as the Chief Foot"-had multiplied
the element of chance and dinned tho
result in Magordon's ear,
Finally. just at noon. he said to Niles,
Come on, Charlie. Hurry up, before
Change my mind" They left the ground
AT 1919 and climbed five minutes. Niles =
new machine Is strictly Bleriot type. ex-
cent that the wings are built out little
further than usual and dozen wire
braces on each side keep them from fold
ing as Beachey's did. In the nights
yesterday 1t carried 5s5 pounds usetui
load. Niles and his passenger weighed
800 pounds and he rest was gasolene
and oil. The machine was built bv
Harold Kantner, constructor for the
( Huntington Aircraft Company,
The first time. Niles drove his mono
plane up i.4O0 feet. Then he made two
loops. letting her slide toward the earth,
tail first. at the end OF the second loop,
dropping 500 feet in the performance.
He climbed again without landing, to
( 500 feet--the clouds did not bother
rolled the machine over on Its back and
few a half mile with his head and that
of his passenger sticking down toward
the fleid. He dropped almost perpendic-
ularly 500 feet and then volplaned for
"A landing.
! Magordon Gets Euthus,n.tic.
| Now Magordon, who had been hesItat-
ing was cnthusiHstic lie was anxious
to go again lie said he would Ike IN
, try II himself, and that he would do II AZ
soon as he could get an aeroplane that
would stand the strain
| II lost all sense OF direction" Ma
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