The Snowflake herald., 1916-11-03
Harvey hikes
HeaVenWard
AVIATOR CRAWFORD BRINGS HIS
PASSENGER CARRYING b.
PLANE TO FAIR.

Harvey Crawford, who with the
Wright Bros. and Curtis can claim
distinction as one of Americas plo-
neer aviators, arrived in Phoenix from
the coast October 18th.
It seems that Crawford is not only
going TO fly and carry passengers at
the Arizona State Far November !5
to 18. but that he is thinking seriously
of making Arizona his future nome
and Phoenix his new place OF business.
In an interview Mr.. Crawford said:
Eyes 1t is my intention OF remaining
in Phoenix and, if plans now atoot
materlaliZe, to open school or AVA
ton. | have contemplated this step
for some time and recently nave Deen
advised by a number OF Phoenlx DuSl-
ness men that they were deslrous OF
taking up the sport OF avlatlon-tnat
is Why | am here so much IN advance
of the fair. | have been out TO the
fair grounds and consider them ideal
for the purpose OF 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 aeronauLs and his drift from the
balloon to the dIrlglbie, then TO the
glider and finally to the aeroplane
as but natural.
Every step of the way he worked by
himself, building his own gli1ers, max
ing his own motors and learning ny
each mistake he made, he flnaIly put
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
Tacoma, Washington.
He has only had one serious acci-
dent-and that was no fault OF his
own but rather an event that should
have wen b m a mediator he turned
his machine INTO what seemed certain
death for himself to save crowd or
have won b. m medal-for he turned
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 dislocated.
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 at 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 | had four miles | would
use every bit Of ii"
There will be no loop the looping"
done at this fair for the big passenger
carrying machine that Crawford
brought with him is not made for that
stunt 1t is made too bulky and has
not the reinforcing absolutely neces-
sary to the terrible strain placed on
a machine by what Crawford calls
"The Maniac Stunt" Here again the
absolute honesty of the man cropped
out as he said, Il use the small ma
chine for looping and | am not a
bit sorry that | haven't it with me.
Looping has killed more avaitors than
all other causes put together and /
know the danger a great deal better
than most people. | have done the
loop perhaps a thousand times but
cannot say that | ever enjoyed it.
1t is flirting with death and l know
it, and | am always glad to get out
of doing it. My greatest aim is to
carry passengers. To give people a
full realization of what pleasure flying
really is. To make it a sport one can
enjoy in safety instead Of a flirta-
tion with death. Yes, | did have a
little accident once with passenger
aboard. l broke a propeller and had to
descend into the bay. Got him wet but
neither he or were scratched"
With the exception of the Wrights
and Glenn Curtiss, Crawford is the
oldest manufacturer of aeroplanes in
this country and has been flying long
er than any other, now living, AVIATOR.
His big machine has arrived
and will be put up at the fair grounds
he a ic IonnAnd