Arizona republican., 1916-10-18
FLYING SCHOOL
 FUR PHOENIX

Harvey Crawford, who With the Wrights and Curtiss, can claim dis tinction as one of the pioneer aviators | of the country, registered al the Adams Hotel from San Francisco today.
 It seems that Crawford is not only | going to fly and carry passengers at the Arizona State Fair, November 13 to Is, but that he is thinking seriously of making Arizona his future home and Phoenix his place of business
 In an interview Mir. Crawford said. Yes it is my intention of remaining in Phoenix and, if plans now afoot materialize, to open a school of avia- tion. l have contemplated this step for some time and recently have been advised by number of Phoenix busi- ness men that they were desirous of taking up the sport of aviation-that is why l am here so much in advance of the fair. l have been out to the fair grounds and consider them ideal for the purpose of a school Your climatic conditions are also all that one could wish for and there seems to be no reason why the school will not open at once"
 Crawford. like the Wrights. had no | teacher He comes from long line of aeronauts and his drift from the 1 balloon to the dirigable, then to the | glider and finally to the aeroplane was | but natural
 Every step of the way he worked by 1 himself building his own gliders. mak- ! ing his own motors and learning by | each mistake he made, he finally put 1 together a plane that would rise from the ground and in this crude. home made affair he trusted himself in 1908 making his first successful flight at 1 Tacoma, Washington.
 He has only had one serious acci- 1 dent-and that was no fault of his own but rather an event that should 1 have won him q medallion he turned his machine into what seemed certain death for himself to save a crowd of
 women and children who had been pushed forward onto the track before his machine by the pressure of the
 crowd in the rear. In this accident | Crawford had his skull crushed. all
 of the ribs on his left side broken and
 his neck dslocated.
 There is none of the bravado about
 this slight, blue eyed young man. His
 motto is Safety first" and he is not
 ashamed of it either. While looking
 over the grounds al the fair some one
 remarked This, surely, is room enough
 for you to rise in" Crawford answered
 Yes, ] could rise in 300 feet but if I
 had four miles l would use every bit
 of it."
 There will be no loop the looping
 done at this fair for the big passenger
 '"rN'ng ma chine that Crawford
 brought with him is not made for that
 s,un,. It IS made too bulky and has
 not the reenforcing absolutely neces
 sary to the terrible strain placed on | | a n G h m H,~ hot
 The maniac stunt" Here again the
 absolute honesty of the man cropped
 out as he said. 'I use the small ma
 chine for looping and l am not a bit sorry that l haven't it with me Looping has killed more aviators than all other causes put together and Know the danger great deal better than most people. 1 have done the
 loop perhaps a thousand times but
 can not say that I ever enjoyed it
 It is flirting with death and I know
 1t, and I am always glad to get out
 of doing it. My greatest aim is tc
 carry passengers. To give people a full realization of what pleasure flyinq really 1t. To make It sport one car enjoy in safety instead of a flirta tion with death. Yes did have little
 accident once with a passenger aboard broke propeller and had to descend into the bay. Got him wet but neither he or l were scratched"
 With the exception of the Wright. and Glenn Curtiss, Crawford is tn. oldest manufacturer of aeroplanes il this country and has been flying long. CT than any other, now living, aviator His big machine will arrive toda, and will be put up at the fair grounds where his school will be located