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  Paul Studensky in the Gnome-National, W. C. Robinson in a Curtiss type, and Marcel Tournier in the 28 horsepower Nieuport gave a very successful exhibition at Des Moines, Ia. on August 24, all three machines being in the air at one time. Studensky also flew successfully at Owatonna, Minn., on August 19.


CHILDREN THRONG FAIR AT OPENING OF GREATEST SHOW

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AEROPLANES UP LATE

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Three Machines Make Pretty Flights Toward Close of Day.

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Frenchman and Russian Are Teammates of Young American Aviator.

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To the ordinary layman an aviator is a daring, coolheaded, adventurous person --perhaps foolhardy, or perhaps almost godlike, according to the point of view. It hardly ever occurs to one that aside from the time he spends soaring in circles high above the watching crowd he is quite human, though necessarily of unique personality.

The three aviators at the state fair this year are respectively, [[underline]]Russian, French and American[[/underline]]--Paul Studensky, Marcel Tournier and W. C. Robinson. Studensky and Robinson fly the Beech-National biplanes and Tournier flies the French Nieuport monoplane.  Tournier and [[underline]]Studensky are licensed French operators and Robinson has an American license. Studensky was born in St. Petersburg, grew up there and is a graduate of the university of that city.[[/underline]] Robinson, it is interesting to learn, is an Iowa boy, a home flier. He grew up at Grinnell and first became interested in aviating while yet in Grinnell.  His parents are still residents of that city. He is now a teacher in the Lilly School of Aviation at Chicago.

The machines these men fly possess interesting personalities. Robinson's machine is a seventy-five horsepower creature.  [[underline]]Studensky's machine contains the fifty horsepower Gnome engine formerly used by Graham White, and said to be one of the most wonderful engines ever built.[[underline]] Both aeroplanes are of the French military type, adopted for the carrying of passengers. The monoplane flown by Tournier is of the same type as that which won the Gordon Bennett trophy and which will race against all comers in races to be held in the near future. The type is the fastest in the world.

All three of the aviators are young men, but men schooled in the handling of machines. They are assisted by a large corps of mechanics, sent with them by Howard Linn and Arthur Orr, under whose management they appear. The flights made yesterday were reported to be of longer duration than any flights made during last year's fair.  [[underline]]On his second flight, Studensky passed across East Des Moines and circled the dome of the state capitol.[[/underline]]