Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-07
GREAT AV|ATORS
ARE SECURED FOR
/ THE CELEBRATION
Novel Aerial Stunts to Be
Performed, Including Mil
itary Work - Contract
With Patterson Aviators.

Aviators will storm Boise during the
Fourth of July celebration to be held
I'm this city covering a period of three
days. This announcement was author
lied by the committee which has sue
ceeded in closing a contract with the
Patterson aviators. There will be aero
plane battles in the air, and exhibition
flights of aeroplane mail delivery, an
aeroplane race and standard exhibit
tions.
The aeroplane battle, featuring aero
planes, is as nearly as possible an exact
reprod, ticn of actual encounters that
have taken place in the Eur pean war.
In announcing II the aeroplane man
agement says:
1.-THE crowds are told by megaphone
that hostile aeroplane has been sight
ed app oaching nd that machine will
ascend from the grounds to defend
against attack. II faces turn upward
toward the hostile aeroplane away
aloft Riflemen dash to positions of de-
tense. The defending machine rises. In
q series of magnificent spirals the
stranger swoops down so that the mill
ttary observer sitting beside him may
find the position and strength of tho
enemy and signal back to his wn
forces.
When lie discovers the home aero
plane he enIeavors to get directly
above it and drops a bomb. The home
machine skilfully avoids getting d.
rectly 1der the other 50 the bomb
drops to the ground and bursts in a
cloud of black smoke. Each mae inc
r. oh La 4
bomb it, The hostile plane has the adj
vantage of speed
But rifles blaze out and the OPP os-
ing airman commences a series Of
swerving, darling n ovement3 to dodge
the hail of bullets and make it difficult
to get the range or :.i@l at the small
target. Other bomb; fall amid the yels
and screams of the wounded. The band
begins playing martial tunes. The am
bulance runs up and white clothed
nurses and surgeons carry off the
stricken.
THE hos ,ile aviator makes lightning
dives to hurl bombs at the riflemen am
swiftly speeds a 'ay again. he home
machine with inferior speed is unable
10 attack the other from a position Z
advantage. So as a last resort II lunges
directly at its opponent. The people
shudder and exclaim while man. turn
away to avoid seeing the crash that
seel-s inevitable. They are paralyzed as
the two planes meet head-on. All is
deathly still. An instant later they pass
each other. They have bee. moving
about the same height but at different
distances. So in the air where thee is
nothing to give perspective the ap-
pearance is exaetlS that OF a head on
collision.
The clever handling of the defending
machine enables it to escape bombs
thrown from above. Finally the aviators
empty their revolvers at each other.
With a blood -eurdling Shrek the mil
itary observer tumbles wounded from
the aeroplane and turning ove- and
over drops down through space till he
smashes into the ground. Spectators sit
frozen to their seats, horror stricken.
The hostile aviator keeps up the fight
mora bitterly than ever TO avenge the
fall of his comrade. He + becoming SO
reckless IN his maneuyering or his ma
chime that it is no an easy target.
Vital parts ar damaged. With afleron
controls apparently shot away the
plane careens terrifyll sly from sic e to
side Finally elevator cables seem to
snap and 1t is as helpless as a broken
winged bird L tits. pitches forward.
RECEIVERS, then suddenly plunges head
long in death dive, nose downward
straight to earth The spectators gasp:
their hearts almost stop beating. Clear
. ~ no power on earth can save him as