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^[[P111]] [[/magazine clipping]] CHICAGO TO OPEN CICERO FIELD, MAY 30 CHICAGO, May 13 --Grand opening week of the Aero Club of Illinois flying field at Cicero, on a scale more comprehensive than any American club's opening since aviation became a sport, begins May 30, it was decided today. Four principal days of events, demonstrating what has been done in Chicago in aviation, will be arranged, the airmen participating being those who are members of the club and who are making the Cicero field their headquarters. The flying will not be conducted in the way of an official m[[eet]] but will be devoted to displaying the progress made in aviation by Chicago fliers. At least eight experienced fliers will take part, all licensed aviators. They are Lillie, Fish, Fournier, Studensky, Brodie, Mestach, Thompson and Drew. Lillie will fly his passenger-carrying Wright model B biplane; Farnum T. Fish, the youngest licensed aviator in the world, who is to aid this summer in the instruction of high school boys, who have formed model clubs at the Cicero field, will fly a Wright model B. For the first time in Chicago a Nieuport monoplane, the one like that on which Charles Terres Weymann last year sped past all other competitors and won the Gordon-Bennett international championship with a speed of 79 miles an hour, and similar to the machine with which Claude Grahame White won $25,000 in America last year, will demonstrate its wonderful speed possibilities under the guidance of Aviator Fournier. [[underlined in red]] The largest aeroplane in America will be guided by Paul Studensky of the National Aeroplane Company. This huge leviathan of the air is 50 feet across the upper wing, has a chord and a gap of seven feet, and carries two passengers with a great loftiness that makes the danger of the air seem a myth. It is driven by a Roberts six motor and has made many very successful flights. Studensky also will drive a Curtiss biplane.[[/underlined in red]] Otto Brodie, one of the oldest, in point of experience, of the Chicago fliers, has his Farman biplane ready for the event, and will engage in the passenger-carrying contests. He also will drive the Bleriot monoplane. Mestach, the only American operator of the Morane-Borel monoplane, has promised to bring it here for the opening. Mestach plans to make Chicago his headquarters this summer. Thompson, one of Lillie's pupils who sought his pilot license only this week, also will fly, operating a Wright biplane. Andrew Drew, field director of the club, will demonstrate the process of instructing students on the Wright. The foregoing list includes three types of machine never before demonstrated in Chicago--the fast Nieuport, the Morane-Borel and the huge National biplane. The list includes also the Bleroit, Farman, Wright and Curtiss, practically every type of successful aeroplane that has flown in America. In addition to these, the novice exhibition will be interesting--more so than the regular flying, to many. At least eight original types of machines, unlike any other aircraft in the world, will be run over the ground, and tried out in flight for the first time, under their own power, on novice days. Gilder enthusiasts will be given opportunity to display their skill at directing motorless aeroplanes, and the 400 boys in the model section of the club will demonstrate how new wrinkles in aviation are worked out from tiny models, which will fly under their own power more than 1,000 feet. An exhibition hall will be conducted where the new things in aeroplane motors, propellers, fixtures and fittings may be displayed for the benefit of those actively interested in aviation and for those to whom details in a new sport of enterprise are of interest. The first day will be "Historical Progress" day. It will illustrate in succession the model flyers, the glider men, the original type machines, those learning to fly, the standard machines of world-wide fame and the experienced, licensed aviators. The second day will be "Society Day," Ten thousand persons are expected to attend on this day. Society people, who have shown great interest in the club's activity this year, have been invited, and the leaders in Chicago's social life have indicated that they will attend. Saturday, June 1, the third day, will be an "Intimate Inspection Day," when the exhibitors will be at the field early, ready to explain and demonstrate to the visitors any feature of the models, gliders, original or standard-type aeroplanes. The flying events also will be held on this day. The last of the four principal days, Sunday, will be "Everybody's Day," when those who otherwise would not have an opportunity to see the flyers will be given that chance. A complete program, such as on the opening day, will be held. For the opening, the club will use for the first time its new station on the Metropolitan elevated railroad, the Fiftieth street station. This will let visitors directly to the section before which the events will be arranged. Further details will be published next week in AERO. [[/magazine clipping]]
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