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[[newspaper clipping]] CROWD WRECKS LOOSE'S MACHINE [[line]] Novice Airmen Meet Mishaps and Spectators Scramble for Souvenirs [[line]] An amateur machine and an amateur record were broken at Selfridge field yesterday. George H. Loose, driving an original biplane owned and built by two Oakland men, crashed his aircraft into a heap of wreckage after taking it on a half mile jaunt, and a crowd of curious tore the helpless machine into shreds of souvenir size. An innocent bystander from South San Francisco, W. W. Brawn, received a splinter from the machine's propeller in his forehead and was treated at the emergency hospital on the field. Loose dove from his seat when his plane dug into the ground and thus saved himself serious injury. Then came the army freight wagon, drawn by four mules, to bring back what the crowd could not carry away. WISEMAN INCREASES FLIGHTS It was Frederick J. Wiseman of Santa Rosa, who has made constantly increasing flights during the meet, that shattered the amateur record by making a sustained flight of 16 minutes 2-5 seconds. Wiseman drove his craft with the skill and coolness of a professional and made three flights in all before the hour for professional performances drove him from the field. The young Californian is warming up to his work. During the day his total time in the air was 54 minutes. Since Tuesday he has been hard at it in daily flights, and if Robinson, the Curtiss mechanician, is declared by the aviation judges not to be eligible for entrance in these novice events designed for amateurs who have worked out their own machines along their own lines, then Wiseman will have no competition for the novice prizes. Robinson Saturday made a flight of 3 minutes, and thereby took first place in the race for novice prizes, but, like Beachey, who is also in the Curtiss camp, a protest was entered against allowing him to compete here under the novice rules. Robinson uses a standard Curtiss machine, carried around for exhibition purposes, and the protest declares that he should not, therefore, be allowed to compete against the local men who put their own time and money into building their own craft. Friends of Wiseman yesterday stated that the Santa Rosa birdling wrecked 12 machines before perfecting the one in which he now rides, that he has exhausted his funds in the work, and given all his time for a year to it. They were indignant that an employe of a professional camp, driving a professional machine, had entered in contest against the local inventor, and the matter probably will be taken up by the aviation committee and the judges of the meet. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] Fly in Own Machine [Special Dispatch to The Call] SANTA ROSA, April 23.—Fred J. Wiseman, the well known automobile racer, and his mechanician, M. Peters, both of whom narrowly escaped being killed in San Jose last summer while making an attempt to lower their own record around the bay, made several successful flights in an aeroplane of their own manufacture near this city last night. The machine, a biplane with some entirely new features, was brought to the Laughlin ranch, six miles north of here, six weeks ago and assembled by the young men themselves. The special feature of the new machine is the motor, the cylinders of which are copper instead of cast, as in all other motors made. The idea was taken from the chemical fire extinguishers and has proved to furnish an engine of less than half the weight without weakening the resistance power. According to reports the machine made three flights and answered all requirements most satisfactorily. Both Wiseman and Peters took turns handling it in the air and are greatly elated over the success of their efforts. The machine is about 34 by 44 feet and is believed to be one of the strongest on the market. It will be given its first public exhibition at the rose carnival aviation meet a week from Sunday, following the automobile races. Contestant [[torn]] a meeting of the auditing committee, it was announced unofficially yesterday that at least 70 per cent of the money subscribed for the meet will [[unreadable]] returned to the stockholders, and possibly the entire amount. President [[unreadable]]ford expects to have a statement [[unreadable]] for publication today or tomorrow. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping] NEW ENGINE ARRIVES FOR FLYING MACHINE [[line]] The new engine for the Wiseman-Peters flying machine has arrived and a force of mechanics is busily engaged in installing the same. It is an eight-cylinder engine of the most approved type, and capable of generating eighteen hundred revolutions of the propeller of the machine every minute. It supersedes an engine of four cylinders. Parties visiting the flying machine while it is on exhibition will have the pleasure of seeing the mechanics actually at work on the big bi-plane. This will be an added feature which will prove attractive. [[/newspaper clipping]]
