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SAN FRANCISCO 1911 Jan 12 to 23 incl.

We had but two machines with Walter Brookins and Phil Parmalee as pilots. The meet was to be held at the Tanforan Race Track, [[strikethrough]] near the sea [[/strikethrough]], as soon as the equipment arrived and set up both pilots made a demonstration flight for the benefit of the newspaper men. 

Hubert Latham arrived with his Antoinette Monoplane, which was equiped with a sixteen cylinder motor turning a propeller about eight feet long.

Jimmie Radley brought with him a new Bleriot Monoplane which was driven by a Gnome Aircooled Motor.

Glen Curtiss, Willard, Lincoln Beaches, Eugene Ely and a number of amature back yard pilots with their home made machines [[x'd-out]] e [[/x'd-out]] were all there, some with guaranteed amounts, but the amatures were there on their own, paying their own expenses and hopeing to win some of the prize money offered for certain events.

This meet was a success financially. Some very remarkable records were set up during the ten days. Most of the professional pilots stopped at the Palace Hotel and one evening Jean Ely asked me for a confidential conference. In my room, he informed me that he proposed to fly out in the bay and make a landing on the Battleship Pennsylvania and, he wanted me to assure him that my men would not try to beat him to it. He then told me that he was worried as to the method of stopping after he had touched the deck and asked me what I thought was the best thing to do.

I remembered the illustrated articles which appeared in the Scientific American and Supplement years before. Some of the reproduced photographs illustrated how Sir Hiram Maxim was able to stop his aeroplane in a very short distance, by large wooden

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