Bud at Sheepshead Bay

JAMES C. MARS & SKYLARK - 1910 AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY Photographed by Albert H. Reiners      Albert H. Reiners, (1889-1973), was an avid photographer and aviation enthusiast and took advantage the opportunity to take many pictures in the early 1900's. He attended the Sheepshead Bay Aviation Meet in August, 1910, where he took photos of James Mars, John A. D. McCurdy and Eugene Ely.This is an example of many which were offered from his collection by his grandaughter, MaryAlice Borer, for our enjoyment. You can see several other pictures selected from of his collection of 27 photographs by clicking on: REINERS' ALBUM

 

BUD MARS QUALIFIES AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY New York: Daily Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tennessee, August 28, 1910: New York Email from Bob Davis - 9-3-03      "Bud" Mars, a pupil of Glenn H. Curtiss, who fell in the lower harbor with his aeroplane yesterday, qualified today by three flights at Sheepshead Bay race track, as a licensed aviator of the Aero club of America. His first flight was for four and half minutes, his second for five minutes and his third for six minutes. The conditions require that each flight shall be for five kilometers or more, under observation.      There are only seven other aviators with American licenses. They are Wilbur and Orville Wright, Glenn H. Curtiss, Captain Thomas F. Baldwin, Louis Paulhan, Clifford B. Harmon and J. Armstrong Drexel.      Ely, another Curtiss pupil, made three circles of the course at a height of about 1,000 feet while Mars was qualifying.

 

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