The San Francisco call., 1908-09-12
0rviIIe Wright Remains in Air
One Hour, Ten Minutes and
Twenty=six Seconds
Demonstrates That His Machine
Develops Speed of 1856
Miles an Hour
lviatOr's Third and Successive
Victory Causes Great
Enthusiasm

WAShlNGlON, Sept ll.-1n
fight lasting / hour, 10 minutes and
16 seconds, Orville Wright late to-
day surpassed all his previous exploits
} for a time and distance fight for a
heavier than air machine Two flights
were made at Fort Myer, Va, the
FIRST being Of 10 minutes and so sec
onds' duration for the purpose of
showing what rate of speed he had
been travelling during his long flights
of the past three days. The test DEM
onstrated, according to the aviator's
calculations. that the speed of the
aeroplane during the record breaking
flights OF Wednesday and Thursday
was 1885 miles an hour.
Wright arrived at the testing grounds
at Fort Myer at 4 o'clock, and imme-
diately prepared to make a flight He
had been in conference with Lieutenant
Sweet, the representative Of the navy,
az the aerOnautical tests, in connection
with the plans of the naval branch Of
the service for adopting aeroplanes.
FIRST TESTS SPEED
AC v CAA-4EL NOu4lLlOAS were lAEd4s
and Wright lost no time. Before max
ing the first hight Wright said:
L want TO take a flight OF about 10
minutes in order TO see how my pres
ent speed compares with what l made
at kftJyhawk, n C 1 have a time
and a distance apparatus attached to
the aerOpIane, but as it registers only
10 kilometers without repeating, have
to make short flight in order 10 de-
Farrriua Tna Srlaad a. hich ha machine
travels through the air."
Starting at 4:41, the aeroplane made
nine rounds OF the drill grounds and
then. landing within few feet Of the
thousand or more spectators, Wright
computed the speed Of his record break
Pnag flights.
The annemOmeter registers 11:44
kilometers," said Wright, making the
speed a little more than 81 miles. an
hour. We made a miles at Kitty Hawk
with d little less power OF course, the
turns there were much longer, and
therefore did not impair the speed as
much as the turns I make here, but I
had no idea there was such a great
difference"
Later Wright found that he had mis-
calculated the speed and, as finally COM
puted, the speed was announced at
1885 miles an hour.
To those who witnessed Wright's
fights from the beginning the results,
marvellous as they are, are now re-
garded as q matter of course. but the
majority OF those who witnessed to-
days long flight were reused TO great
enthusiasm when the aviator for the
third successive day broke his pre-
viOus record. Fifty-seyen times the
machine passed over the starting point
during the 20 minutes and "a seconds
that it was up. Twice the aeroplan-
tor the nrst time during his Fort Myer
flights that he cOuld control his ma
chine in any direction.
A feature Of the landing was that he
did not stop the motor until the ma
chine touched the ground.
Octav Chanute, one Of the foremost
aerOnauts in the country. arrived in
Fort Myer today. The Wright broth
ers began their work in aeronautics in
an unusual way" said Chanute. or
Vile was convalescing from scarlet
fever and his brother, Wilbur, read Pet
ugrew's book on aeronautics to him.
Soon after the Aeronautical Annual
was published, and the Wright broth
ers learned from its pages what had
been done toward conquering the air.
The experiments started them
Before making another ascension at
Fort Myer. Wright will make changes
in his machine in order TO secure great
'gr speed.
WILBUR WRIGHT'S FLIGHTS
LEMANS, Sept. lin spite of the
heavy fog that prevailed this morning
Wilbur Wright. the American aeronaut,
was out at an early hour. Almost i'm
mediately after he started his airship
1t was hidden from the view of the
spectators by the thick mist. After
describing q large circle, it returned to
the starting point and alighted, having
been gone two minutes and Is sec
Onds. Wright made another attempt
q little later. but the fog was still too
heavy. At O'clock the weather had
cleared and Wright made his third at
tempt, with the intention Of making a
long flight. He had trouble, however
with the sparkling apparatus Of his mo-
tor and was forced to come down after
being four minutes and forty-two sec
onds In the air.
After overhauling the motor, Wright
took out the aeroplane again this even
ing and made a fight OF four minutes
and thirty-three seconds. He reached
a height Of 90 feet and the speed OF
the machine was so kilometers an hour
He descended on account OF the cold
which numbed his hands and made the
manipulation Of levers difficult.
NEW YORK, Sept. ia. NJ. Her
ring OF this city. who has asked for
an extension OF time for the govern
ment tests OF his aeroplane, said to-
day that his machine was ready for
the tests, but he desired additional time
TO make improvements. Herring said
he was not surprised at the record
breaking flights of Orville Wright at
Fort Nyer. and spoke confidently of
the possibility Of taking a trip to Chi
cago in his aeroplane.
With my engines working as I fully
expect them to-" he said, [ would fly
TO Chicago without stop"
~ Herring believes the question Of
equilibrium has been solved by him in
this machine, which he said is stronger
than Wright's aeroplane and weighs
much less