New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-12
BREAKS RECORD AGAIN
HRIGHT IS STILL At IT.
AeropIane,s Flight Lasts Hour
10 Minutes, 26 Seconds.

washington. Sept lin a fight lasting I
hour 10 minutes and 2s seconds Orvi1le Wright
late to-day surpassed ali previous exploits for a
-,-,s and distance flight for a heavier-than-air
machine
Tvo fights were made at Fort Myer. Virginia,
to-day the first OF only 10 minutes and so sec
onds duration. being for the purpose Of ascer-
+s,ninr what rate of speed he had been attain
ing during his recent long flights. To-day's
test demonstrated, according TO the aviator's
calculation. that the speed OF the aeroplane dur
ing the record breaking flights Of wednesday
s75 Thursday was 1855 miles an hour
Mr. Wright arrived at the testing grounds at
r,-4 srver at 4 o'clock and Immediately pre-
-.-.s 20 make = fight. He had been in confer
e,ee with Lieutenant Sweet, the representative
- tha navy at the aeronautical trials, in con-
nect,on with the plans of the naval branch of
the service for adopting seroplanes.
The weather conditions were ideal and Mr.
-z-eb+ lost no tine in having the machine
,lsced on the starting track Before making
+be first fight he said: y want TO make q flight
~ shout Ten minutes in order TO see how my
,-esent speed compares with what I made at
Ei-,v Eawk. " c. I have time and distance
.,,s-s+us attached 10 the aeroplane. but #
-eriste-s only ten kilometres without repeating
have 10 make a short flight in order TO deter
mine the speed at which the machine travels
through the air.
Starting at Al o'clock the aeroplane made
nine rounds Of the drill grounds and then. land
ing within a few feet OF the thousand or more
spectators Mr. Wright computed the speed of
his record breaking flights.
The thermometer registers 11-44 Kilometres"
said Mr.. Wright. making the speed a little over
tlirtv-seven miles an hour. We made forty
four miles an hour at Kitty Hawk with a little
less power OF course, the turns there were
much longer and therefore did not impair the
speed as much as the turns make here. but
had no idea there was such great difference"
Later. Nj Wright found that he had miscal-
culated the speed, and announced that it had
been So. 80 miles an hour.
Bv those who have witnessed Mr. Wrights
fights from the beginning the results. mar
vellous as they are are now regarded as q mat
Ter of course. but the majority Of those who wit
messed to-day's long fight were aroused 10
great enthusiasm when the aviator, for the third
successive day. broke the worlds previous rec
ord Fifty-seven times the machine passed over
the starting point during the 20 minutes and
g seconds that il was up. Twice the aeroplan-
Isl described the figure s" showing. for the
first time in his Fort Myer flights that he could
swing his machine in any direction A feature
Of the landing vas that he did not stop the
motor until the machine touched the ground
Octave Chanute, the well known aeronaut.
arrived at Fort Myer to-day. The Wright
brothers began their work in aeronautics in an
unusual way" said M Chanute "Orville was
conTalescing from scarlet fever. and his brother.
Wilbur. read Pettigrew's book on aeronautics to
hin. Soon after. The Aeronautical Annual
was published. and the Wright brothers learned
from its pages what had been done toward con-
querng the air The experiments started them
Before making another ascension at Fort
Myer Nj. Wright viii make few changes in
his machine in order 10 attain greater speed.