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Everything is in readiness for the Chamber of Commerce Flying Circus which will start promptly at 2:30 this afternoon on the mesa, five miles southeast of Albuquer que. It will be Albuquerque's first opportunity of seeing an exhibition of aerial acrobatics and all indica tions are that the entire town will turn out for the show. Among the flyers to perform are Capt. Lowell Yerex, English ace who has twelve German planes to his official credit; Lieut. Clyde BE. Pangborn, the only man to fly an American plane upside-down; D avalo, whom the Boston American has called the “Cookiest of all Cookoos ; Tommie Thompson stu dent at the University of New Mexico, who has six years of fir ing to his credit without a single mishap, and the pilots of the squadron of planes due here from Fort Bliss this morning. Ivan R. Gates, manager of the circus, announced last night that people would be allowed to inspect the planes free of charge all morn ing, but that at 2:30 the field would be cleared of all spectators. A synopsis of the program follows: Event No. 1 (a) Flight of planes in battle formation. (b) Exhibition of stunt fying. Pilots Yerex, Pangborn and Thompson. Event No. 2 Exhibition of death defying aerial acrobatics, wing walking and other dare-devil stunts. Introduc ing the “breakaway” by Diavalo on plane piloted by Yerex. Event No. 3 During exhibition of flying up side-down by Pangborn. Event No. 4 “ Deag stick landing” exhibition in which the pilot flies aloft to about 1,000 feet, stops his motor and propeller, and without power valplanes to earth and lands on mark. By Verex. Event No. 5 Tug of war between airplane and automobile. Thompson in his 186. horse power Hispano-Suiza stand ard plane vs. Milton Gertson in a Stephens automobile. Event No. 6 Changing ~ planes in mid air Diavalo will transfer from the up per wing-tip of one plane to a dangling rope ladder of a plane above. Pilots Verex and Pangborn. Thompson in reserve. Event No. 7 Five thousand foot dash through space by Diavalo with a parachute.
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Albuquerque Morning Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Sat, Jan 27, 1923
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