The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-09-11
French Writers Unanimous in
Lauding Wonderful Feat Of
orville Wright !.
Fl. MYER FLIGHT YESTERDAY
BROKE THE WORLDS. RECORD
Remained Il MID Air sixty.Fiye Min.
utes and Fifty.Two Seconds and
Chcled the Field With Machine Tn.
der Perfect Control.

Paris, Sept. 11.-Expert writers on
aviation this morning devote coluusRs
In tbs newspapers to the Importance
Of orville Wright's flying feats at
Fort Myer and liken the effect pro-
duced throughout the world by this
masterful demonstration to the circ-
ling Of Eitfle tower by Santos Dumont
In 1900. With practical unanimity
they hail the Fort Myer performance
as marking the definite conquest Of
the air by man. A. majority Of the
writer's think that it is only ques-
ton Of short time before the
Wrights, or some other aeroplaneist,
will win the London Daily Mails
prize of $4,000 for a flight from Lon
don to Manchester and NJ. Micholin's
prize Of $4,000 for q flight from
Pairs to the dome Of the Cathedral at
Clermont Ferrand. This latter COM
petition is open until 1918.
Washington, Sept. 11.-Orville
Wright today broke the worlds rec
ORD e' tor !, tine eaa e aIstsnce tes g, e
hs established Wednesday. IN a flight
requiring great skill on account Of, =
tensfnile Wind; No eitc ll1l& xfoaund 5kS
drill grounds at Fort Myer fiftyleiSkt
times In sixty-fve minutes and fifty
two seconds, exceeding the time oR
Wednesdays record flight by three
minutes and thirty-seven seconds.
The flight was witnessed by nearly I
thousand people. 7
The aeroplane rose from the
ground almost Immediately after
leaving the single starting rail. II
continued to climb higher with each
successive round Of the field, until It
reached an altitude of seventy-hve
feet. For the first thirty rounds the
machine flew as smoothly as on its
previous flights. but from that time
on. 1t was seen to pitched at the
turns, as the breeze from the west
struck It. As the machine moved
from the northern end of the field to
the southern end, Mr.. Wright kept It
several points in the wind.
Whenever the machine pitched, II
could be plainly seen from below that
1t responded promptly to every move
Of the levers by the operator. One Of
Mr.. Wright's assistants marked the
time in large figures at intervals on
the root Of shed, In order that Mr..
Wright might see how long he had
been in the air. i,
A gust of wind unusually strong.
struck the aerial flyer during the for
ty-second round, and It plunged
sharply, causing the crowd to ex-
claim In alarm. Mr.. Wright, then
brought the machine lower, but ON,
the hfty-third round he had reached
IN altitude Of 200 feet.
When Mr.. Wright completed. the
dfty-fourth round he had beaten his
record Of yesterday afternoon which
IN, turn, had broken the worlds rec
ord established In the morning fight
Of Wednesday The crowd gave q Ius-
ty cheer but Mr.. Wright was too busy
manipulating the levers to wave his
cap.
Mr.. Wright came down at the
northern end Of the Held at the end
Of the hfty-eighth round, landing
easily. Maj. sQuier. acting chief
signal ohicer. pressed forward to COM
graduate the aviator. The newspa-
per men gathered about to hear what
Mr.. Wright had TO- say about the
flight.
"Isencountered stsff breeze" were
his first words. Flying In q wind as
! did today is lots Of. fun. It's much.