The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-11
WRIGHT'S RECORD FLIGHT IN WIND Orville Flies One Hour and Six Minutes, With Machine Pitching in Ten. Mile
 Breeze.
A NEW WORLDS RECORD
Increased Speed Leads Officials to Be- lieve Inventor .Wm Get S5,O00 Bonus for Forty-two-
 Mile Gait.

washiAgten, Sept 10. - orville Wright to-day broke the worlds roc ord for time and distance for heav- ier-that-air flying machine which he established yestedayH sIn flight re- quiring great skill on account of a ten mile wind. he circled around thu drill grounds at Fort Myer ffty-eight times in 65 minutes 52 seconds. exceeding the time of yesterdays record flight by minutes and 37 seconds. The flight was witnessed by nearly a thou sand people.
 Throughout the day the weathDr was threatening and MT. Wright did not arrive at the field until after o'clock. The machine was wheeled across the field on the detachable wheels and placed on the starting tract At 5 o'clock Mir. Wright an- nounced that he was ready.
 Are you going to try to break the record which you made yesterday" he was asked
 NO" he replied. T am going up just for little practice I may make flight of ten. minutes to. determlne at what rate of speed have been fly ing
 ; The wind, was blowing only about three, miles an hour when MT Wright prepared to make his flight The mounted soldiers who keep the field clear during the flights took their places and Mir. Wright started the motor.
 At 5;os Mir. Wright signalled c. F, Taylor, his mechanic. to release the machine. The aeroplane rose from the ground almost immediately, leav- ing the single starting rail, It con tinued to. climb higher with, each suc- cessiye round of the field, until 1t reached an altitude of 75 feet. For the first thirty. rounds. the machine flew. as. smoothly as on It's previous flights, but from that time on 1t was seen to pitch at the turns as the breeze from the west struck 1t, As the machine moved from the northern end of the field to the southern end, where the auto garage" for storing the aeroplane Is situated. MT. Wright kept 1t several points in the wind
 Whenever. the machine pitched it could be plainly seen from below that 1t responded, promptly to every. move of the levers by the, operator. One of MT. Wrights assistants. marked the time In large figures at intervals on the roof of shed so that Mir. Wright might -see.4how. lens. he had been ir the air. <, ,.i,.s,s,.,..,. .,l .....y .-~
 A gust of wind, unusually strong struck the machine during the forty secofd round and 1t plunged sharply causing the crowd alarm Mir. Wrigh, then brought his machine lower bu, on the fifty-third round he had reach. d an altitude of 200 feet.
 When he completed the fifty-fourtt round he had beaten his record estab. lished by the morning flight of yester. day. The crowd gave lusty cheer
 MT. Wrightf came down at the north crn end of the field at the end of tn, fifty-elghth round, landing easily Majo Squire, acting chief signal officer pressed forward to congratulate tn, navigator and the newspaper mel gathered about to hear what MT Wright had to say about the flight.
 encountered a stiff breezer wer lis first words. His eyes were blood skot, and caused him considerable pain Flying in the wind as I did today. 1 lots of fun. It's much more sport thai flying in q calm as on yesterday. Tn wind must have been blowing fifteen o more miles an hour. as I could tell b