Ormond Beach

And the best way to get started is to pick up your phone and call that league operator in your area and say, "Hey, I'm interested in getting started.

Where can I play in this area?" Okay? I live in Ormond Beach, Florida, and I can call the, our local league operator and say, "I wanna get on a team." And they know all the teams, all the captains of all the teams, and those captains let the league operator know, "We've got two openings we need to fill." Okay? So boom, they put you in touch with somebody.

You go meet them and say, "Yeah, it, it would be fun.

We'll, uh..." "Well, we play every Thursday night at 7:00.

in a thirty five mile gale it was carried beyond munich but zeppelin succeeded in coming to anchor other zeppelin balloons made remarkable voyages during the year but the latest achievements nineteen ten of the old german aeronaut have put all previous records into the shade and electrified the whole world his new passenger airship the deutschland on june twenty second made a three hundred mile trip from frederickshafen to dusseldorf in nine hours carrying twenty passengers this was at the rate of thirty three point thirty three miles per hour during one hour of the journey a speed of forty three and a half miles was averaged the passengers were carried in a mahogany finished cabin and had all the comforts of a pullman car but most significant fact of all the trip was made on schedule and with all regularity of an express train two days later zepplin eclipsed his own record air voyage when his vessel carried thirty-two passengers ten of whom were women in a one hundred mile trip from dsseldorf to essen dortmund and bockum and back at one time on this occasion while traveling with the wind the airship made a speed of fifty six and a half miles it passed through a heavy shower and forced its way against a strong head wind without difficulty the passengers were all delighted with the new mode of travel which was very comfortable this last dirigible masterpiece of zeppelin may be styled the leviathan of the air it is four hundred and eighty five feet long with a total lifting power of forty four thousand pounds it has three motors which total three hundred and thirty horse power and it drives at an average speed of about thirty three miles an hour a regular passenger service has been established and tickets are selling at fifty dollars the present year can also boast some great airplane records notably by curtis and hamilton in america and farman and paulyn in europe curtis flew from albany to new york a distance of a hundred and thirty seven miles at an average speed of fifty five miles an hour and hamilton flew from new york to philadelphia and returned the first night flight of a dirigible over new york city was made by charles goodale on july he flew from palisades park on the hudson and return from a scientific toy the flying machine has been developed and perfected into a practical means of locomotion it bids fair at no distant date to revolutionize the transit of the world no other art has ever made such progress in its early stages and every day witnesses an improvement the air though invisible to the eye has mass and therefore offers resistance to all moving bodies therefore air mass and air resistance are the first principles to be taken into consideration in the construction of an aeroplane it must be built so that the air mass will sustain it and the motor and the motor must be of sufficient power to overcome the air resistance a ship ploughing through the waves presents the line of least resistance to the water and so is shaped somewhat like a fish the natural denizen of that element it is different with the aeroplane in the intangible domain it essays to overcome there must be a sufficient surface to compress a certain volume of air to sustain the weight of the machinery the surfaces in regard to size shape curvature bracing and material are all important a great deal depends upon the curve of the surfaces two machines may have the same extent of surface and develop the same rate of speed yet one may have a much greater lifting power than the other provided it has a more efficient curve to its surface many people have a fallacious idea that the surfaces of an aeroplane are planes and this doubtless arises from the word itself however the last syllable in aeroplane has nothing whatever to do with a flat surface it is derived from the greek planos wandering therefore the entire word signifies an air wanderer the surfaces are really arrow curves arched in the rear of the front edge thus allowing the supporting surface of the aeroplane in passing forward with its backward side set at an angle to the direction of its motion to act upon the air in such a way as to tend to compress it on the other side after the surfaces come the rudders in importance it is of vital consequence that the machine be balanced by the operator in the present method of balancing an airplane the idea in mind is to raise the lower side of the machine and make the higher side lower in order that it can be quickly righted when it tips to one side from a gust of wind or when making angle at a sudden turn to accomplish this two methods can be employed one changing the form of the wing two using separate surfaces one side can be made to lift more than the other by giving it a greater curve or extending the extremity in balancing by means of separate surfaces which can be turned up or down on each side of the machine the horizontal balancing rudders are so connected that they will work in an opposite direction While one is turned to lift one side, the other will act to lower the other side, so as to strike an even balance.

the motors and propellers next claim attention it is the motor that makes aviation possible it was owing in a very large measure to the introduction of the petrol motor that progress became rapid hitherto many had laid the blame of everything on the motor they had said give us a light and powerful engine and we will show you how to fly the first very light engine to be available was the antoinette built by leon lavoisier in france it enabled santos dumont to make his first public successful flights nearly all aeroplanes follow the same general principles of construction of course a good deal depends upon the form of aeroplane whether a monoplane or a biplane as these two forms are the chief ones as yet of heavier-than-air machines it would be well to understand them the monoplane has single large surfaces like the wings of a bird the biplane has two large surfaces braced together one over the other at the present writing a triplane has been introduced into the domain of american aviation by an english aeronaut doubtless as the science progresses many other variations will appear in the field most machines though fashioned on similar lines possess universal features for instance the right biplane is characterized by warping wing tips and seams of heavy construction while the surfaces of the herring curtis machine are slight and it looks very light and buoyant as if well suited to its element the voisin biplane is fashioned after the manner of a box kite and therefore presents vertical surfaces to the air farman's machine has no vertical surfaces but there are hinged wing tips to the outer rear edges of its surfaces for use in turning and balancing he also has a combination of wheels and skids or runners for starting and landing the position to be occupied by the operator also influences the construction some sit on top of the machine others underneath in the antoinette latham sits in a sort of cockpit on the top sits far beneath his machine in the latest construction of santos-dumont the demoiselle the aviator sits on the top aeroplanes have been constructed for the most part in europe especially in france there may be said to be only one factory in america that of harry and curtis at hammondsport new york as the wright place at dayton is very small and only turns out motors and experimenting machines and cannot be called a regular factory the wright machines are now manufactured by a french syndicate it is said that the wrights will have an american factory at work in a short time the french-made aeroplanes have given good satisfaction these machines cost from four thousand dollars to five thousand dollars and generally have three cylinder motors developing from twenty five to thirty five horse power the latest model of bleriot known as number twelve has beaten the time record of glen curtis biplane with its sixty horse power motor the farman machine or the model in which he made the world's duration record in his three hours and sixteen minute flights at rheims is one of the best as well as the cheapest of the french makes without the motor it cost but one thousand two hundred dollars it has a surface twenty five meters square is eight meters long and seven and a half meters wide weighs one hundred and forty kilos and has a motor which develops from twenty five to fifty horse power the wright machines cost six thousand dollars they have four cylinder motors of thirty horse power are twelve and a half meters long nine meters wide and have a surface of thirty square meters they weigh four hundred kilos in this country they cost seventy five hundred dollars exclusive of the duty on foreign manufacture the impetus being given to aviation at the present time by the prizes offered is spurring the men birds to their best efforts it is prophesied that the aeroplane will yet attain a speed of three hundred miles an hour the quickest travel yet attained by man has been at the rate of one hundred and twenty seven miles an hour that was accomplished by marriott in a racing automobile at ormond beach in nineteen o six when he went one mile in twenty eight and one fifth seconds it is doubtful however were it possible to achieve a rate of three hundred miles an hour that any human being could resist the air pressure at such a velocity at any rate there can be no question as to the aeroplane attaining a much greater speed than at present that it will be useful there can be little doubt it is no longer a scientific toy in the hands of amateurs but a practical machine which is bound to contribute much to the progress of the world of course as a mode of transportation it is not in the same class with the dirigible but it can be made to serve many other purposes as an agent in time of war it would be more important than fort or warship the experiments of curtis made a short time ago over lake keuka at hammondsport new york prove what a mighty factor would have to be reckoned with in the marshall airplane curtis without any practice at all hit a mimic battleship fifteen times out of twenty-two shots his experiment has convinced the military and naval authorities of this country that the aeroplane and the aerial torpedo constitute a new danger against which there is no existing protection aerial offensive and defensive strategy is now a problem which demands the attention of nations chapter one

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WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY at a very early stage in the world's history man found it necessary to be able to communicate with places at a distance by means of signals fire was the first agent employed for the purpose on hill-tops or other eminences what were known as beacon fires were kindled and owing to their elevation these could be seen for a considerable distance throughout the surrounding country these primitive signals could be passed on from one point to another until a large region could be covered and many people brought into communication with one another these fires expressed a language of their own which the observers could readily interpret for a long time they were the only method used for signalling indeed in many backward localities and in some of the outlying islands and among savage tribes the custom still prevails the bushmen of australia at night-time build fires outside their huts or kraals to attract the attention of their followers even in enlightened ireland the kindling of beacon fires is still observed among the people of backward districts especially on may eve and the festival of midsummer on these occasions bonfires are lit on almost every hillside throughout that country this custom has been handed down from the days of the druids for a long time fires continued to be the mode of signaling but as this way could only be used in the night it was found necessary to adopt some method that would answer the purpose in daytime hence signal towers were erected from which flags were waved and various devices displayed flags answered the purposes so very well that they came into general use in course of time they were adopted by the army navy and merchant marine and a regular code established as at the present time the railroad introduced the semaphore as a signal and field tactics the heliograph or reflecting mirror which however is only of service when there is a strong sunlight then came the electric telegraph which not only revolutionized all forms of signaling but almost annihilated distance messages and all sorts of communications could be flashed over the wires in a few minutes and when a cable was laid under the ocean continent could converse with continent as if they were next-door neighbors The men who first enabled us to talk over a wire certainly deserve our gratitude.

Yeah.

And where I live here in Ormond Beach, it's 93 degrees outside with a heat index of about 110.

That will destroy a biocide within a day easily.

So now it's starting to develop microbial growth.

Well, I'm sure that they, I mean, if it's franchise, they probably, you know, they're going to buy 100,000 Orioles boxes in the center of Florida as well.

When I managed a company down here, the company was down in Ormond Beach, which is right next to Daytona.

And it's probably technically where the Lido is.

So I would take the sales staff over to Lido for our sales meetings.