New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-20
Nine Planes Land in Flock
at Mineola Field After
Quick Flight Home
ADAMS is HELD UP
BY ENGINE TROUBLE
Two Filters Get Licenses;
Others Said to Have
Qualified by Trip

Hampstead, Long Island, Nov. 10
Flying in long, thin line, like gigantic
geese, nine aeropalnes circled TINS
morning over the Mineola flying heid
and huttered gracefully down to
landing. The return trip from Prince
ton-twelve aeroplanes, the largest
feet that ever took the air at one time
on the American continent had gone
down for the Yale-Prince game the
day beforehand been successfully
brought to an end.
One biplane, driven by II. Salmon
former Princeton baseball player, with
Lieutenant W. G. Kilner as passenger
had landed some time before the group
of planes arrived. 1t was Salmon
first long fight. He made the seventy
eight miles in the remarkable time o.
forty-two minutes-an average speec
of a little less than two miles MIN
ute.
One of the starters this morning
Alfred NJ Adams, who had with MN
tho inventor of the Martin stabllizer-
had engine trouble shortly after leav-
ing Princeton. He was forced to oe-
scend He is expected to complete the
trip tomorrow morning.
Lost in Fog Bank
The nine machines, all Curtiss d.
planes with the exception OF IL.
Blakeley's L. W. F., approached the
field from the east. 1t had taken them
a little more than an hour to cover the
distance from Princeton to the held'
Just as the group passed over Brooklyn
they encountered a thick fog. All save
Salmon rose above it. He flew 10"
under the bank.
The other machines few out OF their
course. The pilots could see nothing
below them but the mist. They reacheu
Hicksville, Long Island. before they be-
came aware that the Mineola field nad
been passed. Backward they turneu
and retraced their aerial steps.
"Hobey" Baker, onetime captain o.
the Princeton football team and
famous hockey star, and Philip Car'
roil Joined the fiiers yesterday at Gov
ernor's Island and led the squadron
into Princeton. He and Carroll, IN the
latter's machine. landed to-day at ths
army post. Baker is pupil IN ths
Governors Island aviation school, ana
tho machine he was using has Its nam
cor AZ the army field. Cord Meyer,
Vale crew man, who was Bakers pas
senger on the down trip, flew the iooU
hall stars plane back to Hampstead
The ayiators, with the exception oil
Never. Baker and Carroll, are mem
hers of the LIST Aero Squadron or the
Now York National Guard. Those who
landed at Mineola were Captain Raynal
e Boiling. commanding officer OF the
corps: Captain Ralph l.. Taylor, Lieu
tenant W. G.. Kilner, James +. Miller:
Alexander Blair Thaw Ia brother OF
William Thaw. who is flying in France
with the American escadrllle), Ser
peants W. p. Willets, J. II. Stevenson
snd r. b. Moves, II. B. Blakely and Cord
Never. Blakely, incidentally, was NY
ing with De Lloyd Thompson about
wear ago when their Sloan biplane
slipped and crashed bO0 rect 10 earVh'
II was thought at the time that neither
man would be able to fly again.
Aviators Have Qualified
With the fight TO Princeton and
hack the aviators are now said to have
qualified for their licenses. Noyes and
Stevenson received theirs this morning
AT the field. The other tests. such as
attitudes, landing, figure Fights and OBJ
stacle landing, have, it is understood,
been passed. A number of the filers,
among them Thaw, Captain Boiling,
BlakeIy and Baker, had already re-
ceived their licenses.
Aeronautical authorities assert that
the success of the flight proves the
practicability OF aerial mail routes for
loo miles or less. Ii also shows the
astonishing rapidity of the develop
ment of the LIST Aero Squadron. When
the fact that just little more than
wear ago the first aeroplane for the
corps was purchased and the addi-
tional fact that the corps did not begin
TO receive daily lessons until May, 1916,
are taken into consideration the sig
nificance of the Princeton flight in re-