San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-23
HONEYWELL TO LEAD
South Wind Is Favorable
and Weather Map
Promising.
START FOR CANADA
Kelly Field Gaily Bedecked
as Thousands See Ma
tional Event.

Before huge throng at Kelly
Field Wednesday afternoon seven
monster balloons lifted their globular
forms into the air and tugged at their
anchors, eager to take off in the great
American classic, the national balloon
race.
Gay ribbons and flags floated from
the guy lines as the thousands milied
on both sides of the balloon line
watching the crews handle the great
gas bags like they were restless b.
bies.
Airplanes roared above as pilots,
shot through space at los to $50 miles
an hour seeking TO set aside old
worlds records.
Balloon pilots scanned the clouds
above to see what the upper currents
had in store for them when they were
to weigh off and become but tiny
speck in the heavens, carried along
by the winds which sweep in ever
changing directions from the equator
to the polar regions.
Present indications are that the bal
looms will be carried straight north
of San Antonio up through Oklahoma
and Missouri and then they will prob
ably get into the general drift toward
the Great Lakes and the st. Law
renee.
Honeywell TO Take Lead.
Capt. III. z. Honeywell, the worlds
most famous balloon pilot. will be the
first to weigh off. He starts about
4 80 and the others will follow at
five.minutc intervals in the following
order:
aCo-operative Club of Kansas CITY,"
pilot, Capt, II. +. HONEYWELL: aide,
Can't. T. E. Boudinot. Kelly Field.
"San Antonio" pilot, B. Fl. Four
nier: aide, f. L. Willis.
~S-14," air service entry, pilot,
Mai. Norman ". Peek: aide, Lieut..
William A. Gray.
$50" air service entry, pilot, Lieut..
Ashley c. Mckinley; aide, Lieut..
Lawrence A. Lawson.
'"S-15- air service entry, pilot,
Capt. Edmund W. Hill: aide, Lieut..
James T.. Powell.
.Goodyear III" Goodyear Tire and
Rubber company entry. pilot. w. I.
Won Orman; aide. c. N. Wallap.
"Detroit." pilot. Herbert V. Ths-
den. Detroit Aviation Socicty; aide.
:. A. Il. Rasmussen. The balloons
are expected to pass over San An
tonic. -,
BY noon the balloons had been ~
cd with their Quota OF natural gas and
the work of filling them 10 capacity
with hydrogen was starNi. A pilot
balloon sent IN at KclyTi at noon
showed the following directions and
velocities Ground. southeast. 10 miles
pcr hour: 800, southeast, L.: 1000.
southeast. IL: 1850. southeast. II.
1000. southeast. IA; 5000. southeast.
oil: 1000. southeast. 81; balloon lost
in clouds.
Soldier Slightly Burned.
Private III. NJ. Davis, Kelly Field.
was slightly burned about the face
ard head during the morning wnen
Gas escaped from one OF the contairs
ers used in Initiating the balloons. Ds-
Wis had his face directly in line with
the escaping gas. His burns are NOT
serious.
over the field.
Sponsors will bid each pilot Goi-
speed when time comes TO leave tor
the big race. They are Miss Nir-
ginia Brown, Houston. sponsoring
Z ADJ. ECl0uHk w 49,
Miss Beatrice Henry, Del RIO, ieSaS.
sponsoring Mai. Norman W. Tex
Miss Helen Rulfs. University OF Tex
as. sponsoring Pilot Herbert Noa
Thaden; Miss Olive MartindaIs, San
Antonio. sponsoring Pilot W. Il. nan
Orman: Miss Nell Nolte. Se=uln, lex
ms. sponsoring II. Z. HONEYWELL; s,iss
Phyiis Corbusier. sponsoring tI'ee
II. III. -Fesrnier; Miss BeSs Gilbert
Austin. sponsoring Lieut. Ashley =.
Miss Martindale viii ehristen the
balloon GOODYEAR Ill for its maiden
VOYAGE. This is Won orman's entry.
The weather map Wednesday morn
ing was almost made to order Tor
The balloon race. The low pres<ure
center which has been north OF Mon
tans for several days moved Gown ana
formed a new center over Utan ana
Wednesday morning. and -
expected 10 re-curve az this point and
move out toward The St Lawrence
Pilots. to get distance, desire to see
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