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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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for their chief, whom they seemed to regard as a sort of demigod. Ah, mon Dieu! one said, he is, in the air, what we are on the ground, perfectly at home! He can do anything with his machine, go to any height he please. He is a wizard! Which opinion, it must be admitted, was shared pretty generally by countless others who sat for days entranced and fascinated by the Frenchman's daring and skill. To see him mount skyward, with an insouciance that nothing short of a double-somersault downward with broken planes could daunt is to compel ones admiration. Once, after circling the field and disappearing, he suddenly emerged to view from behind a black cloud that had crept in from the ocean. It was a startling and dramatic reappearance. It seemed as though the daring fellow had come to earth inside the cloud and had just stepped out of the framework. Another time, just before sunset, when the western sky was dotted with fleecy specks, Paulhan's machine was silhouetted against a white cloud whose edges 760
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Caption: A skyful of man-birds. L. Beachy in dirigible. L. Paulhan in monoplane. Captive balloon. G. Curtiss in biplane. Roy Knabenshue in dirigible. Photograph by Graham Photo Co.
762 THE OUTING MAGAZINE were tipped with the rosy glow of the setting sun. He seemed to ride in thecenter of the flaky mass and the effect was almost uncanny. Of course, boththese spectacles were unintended by the Frenchman, although he was continually on the alert for the surprising and the dramatic. One afternoon Paulhan ascended in full view of the grand stand, circled the course once, rose to a higher plane, ands suddenly headed for the ocean. He was gone thirty minutes, no one knew whither. It developed later that the restless Frenchman, seeing the shipping in the harbor from his lofty perch, had taken a notion to fly across to San Pedro, hover above the warship that chanced to be in port, fly over the new fortification site recently acquired by the Federal Government at Point Firmin, acknowledge the salute of whistles and bells from the factories and ships along the harbor by dipping his frontplanes, unconcernedly whirring back to his starting point. It was a dramatic performance, the full signi

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