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Winning Aviator, Rival, Feat on Flight and Two Flying "Fans" PHOTO © BY POWERS ENGRAVING CO. [[Image]] LUCKEY PASSING THE WOOLWORTH TOWER [[Image]] WILLIAM S. LUCKEY THE WINNER PHOTOS © BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSN [[Image]] CHARLES F. NILES, WHO FINISHED SECOND [[Image]] JANE HAUGHTON AND RUTH LAW. PHOTO BY UNDERWOOD and UNDERWOOD. [[Image]] WOOD FINISHING PHOTO © BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSN Flying to Staten Island for Start of Derby, Walb Aeroplane Enters an Air Pocket. A STEAMBOAT SAVES HIM Wood Makes Trip from Hempstead--Jewel Will Follow This Morning. READY FOR TO-DAY'S MEET Aviators Make Test Flights for Wright Memorial While Crowds Applaud. WOMAN TO OPEN CONTESTS Miss Ruth Law's Flight First Event on Meet Programme--How to Get to the Park. WEATHER FOR TIMES AIR RACE TO-DAY: Fair; light to moderate west winds. [[Image]] LUCKEY STARTING A few words from a Nut. Our Ancient Prayer. Oho Lord Jesus I pray thee to be blessed. [[Ribbon]] AVIATOR ING WORLD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1913. If You'd Be a High Flyer Just Lose All Your Nerves, Says Girl of 750 Flights [[Image]] Miss Ruth Law... Ruth Law, Who Can Make Her Biplane Perform Wonders, Declares Women Are Braver Than Men When It Comes to Flying. e Tells of a Male Passenger Who Got Scared at a Height of Ten Feet, Made Her Land Him and Wanted Her to Certify He Had Gone Up 1,000 Feet. "To be brave, just lose your nerves." The speaker was a trim little figure, most hidden in a huge white woollen [[h]]at, with collar standing up to the [[ti]]ps of her ears, partially burying her head, on which was jammed a dark-green felt hat. She was tightly hugging a large bunch of yellow chrysanthemums and white roses, and as she spoke she occasionally shoved her nose ight straight into that armful of beauty. The girl was Ruth Law. She was standing against her hangar at Oakwood, Staten Island, discussing the problem of aviation from a lady's viewpoint, and also from a lofty standpoint. And few are more qualified to speak on this subject, for she had flirted more times with death than any other woman on earth. Her reply, quoted above, was to the question asked her by an over-inquisitive youth: "How does it feel to be brave?" "In the first place, I do not think I'm brave," continued the greatest woman aviator in America, as she gave the big bouquet another embrace. "You see, to be brave one has to possess nerve and bravery, and yet I have been told that a brave person hasn't any nerves. "I don't know about that, but I do know that to become an aviator one has to dismiss all fear. It's nice to be fearless, and I think it is rather an exaggeration to say a person who is brave hasn't any fear. But I think it is true that the real aviator lacks nerves." And as the interviewer gazed up at the big letters, "Ruth Bancroft Law," which were spread all over the front of the hangar, he was inclined to think that this most capable woman flier [[rest cut off]] I never took the time to deny his story," said Miss Law. "And yet I wouldn't say this man was not a brave man. He had nerves, that was all. Possibly he was a very brave man down here, but he certainly was far from brave up there. "You see, man is more cautious than woman. This is why he is the biggest coward in the air. Of course, I'm speaking of those who go up as passengers. The women are always the bravest, and they go up just for the sport of the thing, and I find that the slight nervousness manifested when they first leave the earth is soon overcome, and very soon they ask me to go even higher. Woman is more daring than man. "Have I ever been scared? Well, I will admit I felt rather nervous one day when I was flying at Sea Breeze last winter. I was caught in a whirpool when about one thousand feet up, and it caught my machine sideways and made every effor to rend it in a hundred pieces and dash me to earth in a disfigured state. But I fought it and ran the machine straight down and landed. It was a thrilling experience, and I would not care to repeat it. ASKED ME TO GET HIS HAT, LOST AT 2,000 FEET ALTITUDE. "I must tell you another story, which illistrates the bravery of some of my men passengers. One day while flying with a gentleman passenger in Florida my companion's hat flew off when we were about 2,000 feet up. He grabbed me by the shoulders and exclaimed, 'There goes my hat! We must get it!' I turned and replied, 'I'll go right back and get it.' "That man evidently thought he was riding in an automobile." It was just a year ago that Miss Law took up the first woman passenger in the world, on the very same ground where she now stood relating her experiences, and curiously enough that woman's name was Madame Dare. It was while watching her brother, Rowland Law, that daring young aviator, jump from Phil Page's aeroplane at Marblehead, Mass., which a parachute, that Miss Ruth suddenly decided to become an aviator. That was about two years ago, and since that time she has made about 750 trips and is known to have made more successful flights, for the time she has been flying, than four-fifths of the aviators in this country. She learned to fly in a forty horse-power Wright biplane, and the machine she uses to-day is the same one in which she learned to fly and in which she has made every flight since. And what wonders she has acomplished with that machine! It is her one delight to go up when no one else will, and no matter how stiff the breeez, or how dangerous the currents, if she thinks she would like to go up, why, up she goes. She can dip, volplane, swirve, dive, and in face she declares she can do anything in the air. Since she first began flying she has found her greatest delight in doing things in the ocean of space that would make the average woman tremble in despair. But Miss Law hasn't any nerves, and not having any nerves, she knows no fear. SHE HAS TAKEN UP 300 PERSONS IN TWO YEARS. During the two years that she has been flying she has taken from the [[?]] no less than about 300 persons. But she has always brought them down again. To fly with her is quite as asfe dip, volplane, swerve, dive, and in fact the chances of death are minimized, for never during the thousands of miles she has covered in the air has she ever met with one mishap. This is principally due to the fact that she is always cautious, and studies every portion of her machine before she takes her place at the wheel. She would have gone up yesterday in the teeth of that northwest gale had it not been for her friends' interference, who finally convinced her it would be folly for her to take her light machine up in such a strong wind. So she remained on the earth and spent most of the day making new acquaintances and receiving floral tributes from her many admirers, who called at her hangar to examine her famous little machine and, incidentally, catch a glimpse of its attractive little owner. This daring little aviator is not ostentatious, but, on the oher hand, quiet and reserved, and it took much longer to get this story than it takes to read it, for she dislikes talking about Ruth Law. The next daring feat on her programme is a flight to Boston and return for a prize of $10,000, which will take place next Saturday, and she solemnly vows if she can get the six cylinder sixty horse-power Wright machine that she has her eye on she will make that trip at the rate of ninety-five miles an hour, and gather in that $10,000 in about two hours. And if the reader had seen the look of determination on her face as she said this it would have erased any doubt in his mind about her being able to do it. For when Ruth says she will do it she usually succeeds. a1831 MONDAY, S AEROPLANE AND AUTO COLLIDE Car Runs Down Airship on Highway and Ties Up Traffic--Ruth Law and Charles Oliver Escape [[Image]]
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Some of the words in the first couple paragraphs of the Ruth Law story are cut off a little, so I filled in the letters that were missing. If there was more than one option the word could've been, I left it in double brackets.
