New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07
Miss Katherine StinsOn
StartIes Sheepshead with
Her Flying.
LOOPS THE LOOP AND
RACES AUTOMOBILE
italian Army Aviator Among
Those Watching Spectacular
Exhibition.

Katherine Stinson. a girl OF twenty
wearing an afternoon gown Of yellow
silk. put a military biplane through
its PAGES at the Sheepshead Bay
Speedway yesterday with skill that
thrilled.
She looped-the-loop twice; once al
height of about 200 feet, and again
nj about 800 feet. Landing from
this flight. she cut of her engine
headed straight for the earth, dived
at tremendous pace for 1000 feet
or more. then, when hundred feet
or so above the field, put on the
mower and volplaned gracefully on 70
the field 1t was a remarkable lana
ing. ga
Erected in the centre Of the field
was an imitation fort Miss Stinson
circled about IT,. loosening from her
rlanes eight blank bombs Had they
been real. six Of them at least would
have landed close enough TO spoh
/ that fort for good. Anti-aircraft NOR,
tars flung blank bombs IN the genera
/ direction Of the warbird suihcinetiy
+ far away 10 insure It's not being mt
/ Tex Millman. the national guard
aviation instructor, who carried mo-
tion picture actress over the city IN
cotton ball bomb dropping. RAID on
/ Thursday, flew over from the hemp
stead aviation field IN IS minutes. ne
distance is about eighteen miles as the
aerOplane flies.
She Races with a Peugeot
+ Flving not more than fifty feet above
/ the track. he raced Darlo Resta, IN
. Peugeot racer. and was beaten by rev
Yards. Restas time for the t"o-inle
circuit was ! minute and % SECONDS,
rate Of about l0J miles an hour. MISS
Stinson later raced the motorist over
the two-mile course and beat MN Dy
foot. As she passed the judges stand
She was no more than six feet above
the ground and travelling at the rate
OF nearly ninety miles an hour.
shortly after she had landed from
her most spectacular and dangerous
fight Miss Stinson drove over IN an
automobile 90 the Judges stand. she
stood talking 20 a number of awestrucK;
laymep. The motor was being cranSed
when suddenly 10 back-hred a loud re-
port like a gunshot rang out. MISS
Stinson jumped and ner hand hew to
her heart.
"Ohlo she said. "You scared me al
most 20 death.
And a moment later she was N the
air. with II thousand feet separating
her from the good, solid ground.
Not the least interested OF the spec
tators was Lieutenant Alberto Cantoni,
an officer of the Italian army's scout
inc service. he motored 20 the field
with Alan Z. Hawley president OF the
Aero Club of America. for the bereht
OF whose aerOplane fund the Sleeps
head Bay flights are being held
His Flights over the Italian Lines.
Until within the last few weeks Lieu
tenant Cantoni has been spottlng
enemy guns hidden IN the hills or the
Ieorzo district. m the northern part OF
Italy He had often been up Tor two OF
three hours, he said, at 3.6OO yards
sbovo sea level At that altitude u is
impossible TO remain long m the AR:
MS face. he said, had been encrusled
with iciclcs. IL
Acroplares. the Lieutenant said, had
bcen wonderfully successful IN direct
ing artillery fire.. OFTEN, ne SAID me
wireless on his craft had caught the
messages from the Austrians and as
Joke. he had flashed back 10 his own
artillery battery the Austrian code
word (which they had iearned) Tor
Efficient firing
The aeropane which Miss Stinson
uses is one Of her own designing. Il
is equipped with an so horsepower
Gnome motor, which was the property
of Lincoln Beachey, who met his
death a year ago at the Panama
Pacific Exposition.
DeLloyd Thompson, who taught Miss
Stirson TO fy was 90 have flown him
self yesterday and to-day. lie has not
seen his pupil perform for two years
Thompson is still at the Nassau
County Hospital, Mineola. where be
was taken after his fall Thursday.