. Outing. ore, however, the lattermade the distance in As demon-strating the value of the dirigible in war times, Knabenshue, from a heightof eighty feet, dropped two bombs intoa twenty-foot square. What the gun-ners below would do to the huge cigar-shaped objects only eighty feet awaymay be easily imagined. Dirigibles were numerous and therewas hardly an hour when one was notin the air. Lieut. Paul W. Beck, incharge of the U. S. Signal Corps at thePresidio, San Francisco, had a govern-ment dirigible on the field toward theclose of the meet. Of the special bal-loons operated at Huntingto
. Outing. ore, however, the lattermade the distance in As demon-strating the value of the dirigible in war times, Knabenshue, from a heightof eighty feet, dropped two bombs intoa twenty-foot square. What the gun-ners below would do to the huge cigar-shaped objects only eighty feet awaymay be easily imagined. Dirigibles were numerous and therewas hardly an hour when one was notin the air. Lieut. Paul W. Beck, incharge of the U. S. Signal Corps at thePresidio, San Francisco, had a govern-ment dirigible on the field toward theclose of the meet. Of the special bal-loons operated at Huntington Park,distant three miles from Dominguezfield, and affiliated with the main ex-hibit, the New York, owned by Clif-ford B. Harmon was in constant other airships rose daily from thepark, the Dick Ferris, piloted by abrother of Roy Knabenshue, the Cityof Los Angeles, in charge of GeorgeB. Harrison, the City of Oakland,with J. C. Mars in command, the Com-pany A, Signal Corps balloon, operated 759. Photographed expressly for THE OUTING MAGAZINE by Ralpli S. Ha-wkt CURTISS (LOWER FIGURE) PASSING PAULHAN ON THE LAST DAY OF MEET, WHENCURTISS WAS OUT FOR THE SPEED RECORD AND PAULHAN FOR ENDURANCE. by members of the aeronautical squad,and the Peoria, controlled by FrankJ. Kanne. The latter, with a basketful of pas-sengers, had the startling experience ofthe meet in an effort to follow CliffordHarmon of the New York. Strikinga contrary wind, the Peoria deviatedfrom the course and was carried severalmiles out to sea, to the consternation ofthe residents of the beach towns nearLos Angeles. Happily, a call for theVenice life-saving crew was not neededas the wind suddenly shifted and an in-shore current bore the voyagers safelyto land, where a quick descent followed. But the feature of the meet was theaeroplane, and the king of the aviatorsin popular esteem was Paulhan. Therewere half a dozen assistant aviators andmechanicians in the Paulhan entourageand they all had the profoun
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