Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1920 — WHEN AIRPLANE WAS NOVELTY [ARTICLE]

WHEN AIRPLANE WAS NOVELTY

•■ —im ~ m ffc IfflO Newspapers Considered Ordinary Flight* at Somsthlpg Worthy •f ‘'Splurge** Head lineal Nine years ago -who.would have dreamed of an NO-4 flying easily from Rock* way to Halifax, from Halifax to Tlrepaaeey. from there to the Azores imd on to Lisbon, and thence to Plymouth? Or of Hawker aad Grieve, the indomitable ones, Jumping oft.at 8L John’s In a land machine, with an ! ocean between them and the Irish I coast, whither they were hound? Or of Alcock and Brown who won after , Hawker and'Grieve bad failed? Or of in fllrigible, large as the ocean liher Adriatic, with five gondolas addin crew of 80 men, sailing swiftly through the fog, most of the ttatte see- • lag nothing else, from England to a landing field In Mlneola? On July 7, 1910, a New York-news paper published flight” news with a three-column head : “Curtiss, in Great Oceatr -Flight, Boars 1300 Feet Above Waves.” “Remains Aloft More Than 12 Minutes, Circling Atlantic City’s Throngs.” The story goes on to describe the flight: “Steady as a sea gull, the great yellow biplane flew over the sea, 1,800 feet above the waves and a *inlle out from the shore, remaining aloft for 12 minutes and 13 seconds.” It tells how Curtiss almorft wrecked the plane at the start In a dash through a breaker. The accident forced him to descend after he had covered 1,300 feet. “Sending for new propeller blades,” the account says, “Mr. Curtiss superintended their adjustment, and after a single test he forgot the accident and daringly macerated. This display of confidence and eourage brought a cheer j from the multitude.” —New York Evening Post.