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AVIATORS IN DANGER
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Fliers Have Narrow Escape From Injuries in Stiff Winds.

Although the crowd failed to show its appreciation, one of the best events of the day was the aeroplane flights. The rain in the morning was followed by a wind that made aerial navigation dangerous. Marcel Tournier braved the wind in the morning and for twenty minutes rode his Nieuport monoplane above the fair grounds and Des Moines.

Narrow Escape for Aviato[[torn page]]

It was 5 o'clock before the ma[[torn page - probably "machines"]] were taken from the hangars again. Paul Studensky was selected to try out the air conditions. A large crowd had been waiting for more than an hour to see aeroplanes in the air and was growing impatient.

The wind was blowing southwesterly and the starting field is so inclined that Studensky had to go with the wind. It is hard to get a machine to take the air going with the wind and Studensky went dangerously close to a big tree that is near the field. He barely cleared a string of telephone wires.  When he tried to turn his machine to attain altitude it tilted to a dangerous angle. He landed after three minutes in the air.

About 6 o'clock Tournier went up in his monoplane.  He circled the grounds time after time. Once he came over the city as far west as the river.  He reached a heighth of more more then 2,000 feet. Studensky was in the air again before Tournier came down.

[[underlined in red]]Studensky remained in the air twenty-five minutes. After several trips above the grounds he went far to the northeast and then turned his machine with wind. He crossed above the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers and over South Des Moines. It was a fifteen minute battle against the wind for him to get back.[[/underlined in red]]

While Studensky was taking his long jaunt, W. C. Robinson, a former Iowa boy, went up in a Nation[[strikethrough]]al[[/strikethrough]] biplane. He remained in the aid only about ten minutes. When he landed he struck a big clump of weeds and came near disabling his machine again.  He had a breakdown Saturday night.

[[bracketed in red]]Studensky made a perfect landing. He drove his aeroplane almost to the hangar. The big crowd that had been watching the men maneuver in the aid showed its first signs of life then by a faint hand clap.[[/bracketed in red]]

Robinson made the last flight of the day. He was up about fifteen minutes and made a pretty trip, although in starting he came near colliding with a fence in an effort to keep his machine from going toward the big tree on the field.

The aviators make no attempt at doing the spiral dip and short turns that have sent so many aerial navigators to their deaths.

"It is one of the stipulations of our contracts that the men take no undue chances," Howard Linn, a member of the National Aeroplane company, said, in explaining why his men do not try for the spectacular feats.
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SKY FLYER ALWAYS FLIES WITH BALLOONS

Paul Studensky always flies a couple of toy balloons on his biplane. Monday evening when he alighted one of the balloons was found to be sadly distorted from the expansion with the thinner atmosphere of the higher altitude.
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