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position above the planes of his aero- 

 plane, was invisible to them. The 

 steam craft in the harbor screeched 

 the regulation three-blast salutes, and 

 crews of sailboats waved flags in 

 honor of the Briton, 



The monoplane rounded the light yes- 

 terday much more closely than it did 

 Wednesday. Plainly, Grahame-Whlte 

 had benefited by his experience- of the 

 former (light. The machine made a ma- 

 jestic curve in the air high above the 

 beacon, with all the ease and assur- 

 ance of a seagull, and was soon on Its 

 return to the aviation grounds. 



In a very short time the flyer again 

 took shape in the southern sky. This 

 time the watching throngs were de- 

 lighted to see that the aviator was 

 (lying much lower than before. This 

 time he passed over the heads of the 

 spectators so low that the purr of the 

 monoplane's engine was heard very 

 Plainly, and the men, women and chil- 

 dren below shouted themselves hoarse 

 the belief that the aviator must be 



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the 



und the light was 

 than the first, 

 xn to the aviation 

 field the monoplane presented a more 

 picturesque appearance. Its outlines, 

 iio n> '.eh liitc 'hose <■£ o tremendously 

 Ka.n ..eraUJ "duiolng needle,'' fcijre 

 . !<.... cut aauanst ,,oti darkening west- 

 ern sky. It flew with great swiftness 

 straight for Its designation. And Ions 

 after it had faded from view in the 

 deepening, twilight many of those on 

 the Fort Revere reservation stood 

 looking southward, as If bewitched. 

 Then the evening gun of the post 

 aroused them, and they went away 

 satisfied. 



SHOOTING FROM AEROPLANE. 



Liut. Fickel, Taken up by YVillurd, 

 Tuts Bullets Into Taipei. 



Sharpshootlng experiments were a 

 r feature of yesterday's early work. 



Charles F. Willard took out a par* ; 

 mit to make a night with Lieut. J. E. 

 Fickel. U. S. A., for target practice. 

 Lieut. Fickel is attached to the 43d 

 infantry stationed at Governor's 

 Island, New York, and is one of the 

 most conspicuous sharpshooters In 

 the service. He carried with him the 

 regulation service rifle. They left 

 the ground at the stroke of 12 m a 

 Curtlss biplane. As the machine 

 circled the course L.leut. Fickel fired 

 a sighting shot from a height of 150 

 feet at an angle of so degrees, barely 

 missing the target, as could be seen 

 from the puff of turf when the bullet 

 struck. 



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defeat Grnh 

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 can make w 

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 date from , 

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 York, was t 

 up a score 

 hrinar him < 

 donated In 

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iait nour previously. It m< hazy 

 fa he made his flying start. He first 

 d for duration, remaining up a little 

 re than IS minutes and circlinL; the 

 rse. 7% times. He next did a slow- 

 but was disqualified on Ivs first at- 



disqualified because he ahot the bomb 

 wHlle too near the ground. He then 

 made a slow lap- mark, covering the 

 course three times in* 7 minutes 47 4ro 

 seconds. This was one minute better 

 than his speed test, the latter being s 

 minutes 46 4-5 seconds. This was due 

 to the fact that In the slow lap the 

 av'ator Is allowed to pass Inside the 

 pylons or markers, while in the speed 

 test he must go outside. 



An official scoring showed that Har^ 

 mon on his duration remained in the 

 air 18 minutes 34 3-5 seconds. He made 

 a second flight for bomb throwing, get- 

 ting one bullseye, scoring 3 on the next 

 shot and 1 each on the next two shot? 

 He introduced a novelty by dropping 

 two bombs at once, something that had 

 not been done by any of the profession- 

 als, but the score In this second bomb 

 dropping flight was pronounced void by 

 the committee because he neglected to 

 make a preliminary flight outside the 

 pylons. After a great deal of wlg-wag- 

 glng. he was signalled to come down to 

 have this oversight explained to htm. ' 



TV. Starling Burgess, the Marblehead 

 yacht designer and builder of air- 

 ships, was the next to take the field 

 at 10:30 In a mode'. B biplane of his 

 own make which he used at the meet 

 Co*- the nr.»l time las' Friday morning. 

 Me put on a gray rbwnel military 

 ship with ivittons o.n the side, khaHi 

 trousers and while "speakers." and 

 drew his white socks over the ends uT 

 bis trousers. The machine was drawn 

 to the north end o'f the field and he 

 made about a dozen starts, handling 

 the motor and the machine generally 

 in a skilful manner so far as the so- 

 called "ground work" was concerned. 

 After a number of tries, he made shor,t 

 flight The highest he rose from the, 

 ground was about Beven feet. This Is 

 the machine which was flown over the 

 course at a fair height by Glenn Cur- 

 tiss Saturday . . * 



Curtlss reported -yesterday that "his 

 motive In going up In the Burgess 

 machine, which, by the way, is almost 

 an, exact counterpart of his own bi- 

 plane, was to test the engine rather 

 than to demonstrate the theory of thft 

 craft as a whole. He said that during 

 his trial off the Burgess biplane he 

 noticed that the angles were too sharp 

 and that this was a defect which 

 would have to be remedied. 



The meet has proved a windfall for 

 many enterprising men In Atlantic 

 and Squantum. The two owners oft i 

 sand and gravel pit on Squantum 

 road about :00 yards beyond the 

 main entrance, to the aviation field, 

 allowed automobiles td park in rh»lr 

 grounds for $1 and 10 cents a head 

 for occupants, and have done a profit- 

 able business. 



A real estate man at Atlantic early 

 in the season leased 50 acres for 

 camping purposes overlooking the 

 boulevard and parkway. Applications 

 for camping permits were few and 

 the lessee feared he had undertaken 

 a losing venture, but the adyent of 

 the aero meet turned his tide of luck. 

 He roped off his enclosure and 

 charged the spectators 10 cents a 

 hestd for standing space. On Satur 



. his reservation 

 lators. 



The official helg»t I 

 Sr.turdav in . 

 4,32 feet, according I. 

 dav by Prof. TV ill son. 



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AVIATORS FAVOR 

 NEW m RULES 



Suggestion of Various Classes 

 for Different Types 

 of Machines. 



SKIDS UNFAIR TO WHEELS. 



Accuracy in Landing and Speed 

 Points Where It Is Claimed 

 Competition Is Unfair. 



Radical changes In the rules pertain- 

 ing to aviation meets in this country 

 will in all probability be recommended 

 by the contest committee of the 

 Harvard-Boston Aero Meet at their first 

 meeting after the close of the present 

 tournament. The exact nature of the 

 changes will not be known until the 

 committee has met and considered vari 

 ous seeming inconsistencies in the pres- 

 ent rules and the protests of some o: 

 the aviators in regard thereto. 



Two of the chief sources of criticism 

 at Atlantic during the past nine days 

 have related to the matters of accuracy 

 in aligjting and the inclusion of all 

 types of air craft in the speed tests. 

 It was noted by the spectators that 

 when Brookins made his world's accu- 

 racy record on Saturday by stopping 

 within 12 feet 1 inch of the little white 

 flag marking the centre of the 100-foot 

 circle his machine was prevented from 

 obeying its natural impulse to rush out. 



"iiiinped "with 'hoavv skids instead of 

 wheels, other ma. hones, equipped with 

 wheels makin2 almost enuallv accurate 

 .lips into the circle, were carried rap- 

 i.llv across it, and in most cases out of 

 it anttfoitr hv their momentum. 



• of the speed contests 

 parate classes for the 

 ane and triplane is ad 

 operators and maker 

 can speed machines 

 meet at least have 

 vas so far inferior to 

 nonlane in speed as to 



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 n miopia 



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light flight. 



viewed on the subiect yesterday by 

 The Herald could see any necessity 

 for any change in the rules affecting 

 I he particular branch of the sport In 

 winch his machine was excelling., but, 

 with the exception of Wilbur Wright, 

 all expressed grievances about other 



^^^fcciidaen of the 

 contest committec^ai.^. meet we w j]j 

 doubtless consider changes in th 

 rale- which have governed us In the 

 light' of our experiences here. This is 

 nm first trv of such a tournament, but. 

 w feel that we have an excellent set 

 of rules and thev will doubtless serve 

 iis a basis for such new rules as may 



1,f ''lt e woukl HC seem y to me likely that 

 ojjh system of handicapping v. 

 lie Invoked in the speed .vents 

 some such hasis as weight, ho 



