Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-07-31
BREAKS WORLD RECORD
OrviIle Wright Made a Beau
tifuI Flight With Passen.
ger Yesterday.
Machine Remained in Air One Hour
Twelve Minutes and Forty Sec
Onds and Went at Speed Of 40
to so Miles I'm Hour.

WORLDS aorOplane record for two men
as to both time and distance was
broken this evening in a beautiful
flight of one hour, twelve minutes and
forty seconds-upwards of fifty miles
and at a speed averaging about forty
miles an hour by Orville Wright at
Fort Myer, with Lieut.. Frank P.
Lahm, of the Army Signal Corps, as
passenger.
The former record was made last
year by his brother, Wilbur, joint in
ventor with him of the machine, at
Lemans, France. That fight was one
hour, nine minutes and thirty-one
seconds. Wilbur was an eager spec
tator OF today's flight by his brother.
you just scotched your brothers
record without damaging it much, y
remarked a newspaper man to OrviIle
after flight.
That's all we meant to do" re-
piled Orville with a smile, which his
big brother appreciatively duplicated
The cheering which heralded the
making of a new mark in the con-
quest of the air was led by President
Taft, who had sat an intensely inter
ested spectator throughout the flight
and who insisted at it's conclusion
upon personally congratulating the
brothers upon their success.
This success was all important tt
the Wrights, in that it completed the
| first of two crucial tests of their ma
chine imposed upon them by th'
United States government, the SO
| called endurance test, which requiret
| them to remain one hour continuous
| ly in the air with one passenger. Or
| vile did nearly thirteen minutes bet
ter than that. and could have kept Of
indefinitely hours and half, ii,
limit imposed by the gasoline supply
The other test, that for speed, Wi
be complied with tomorrow, weathe
permitting, when Orvilie is to TAX
ieut. Benjamin Foulois. of the Sig
nal Corps, en- a cross country fligh
to AleXaG>:1a and return, total {
ten miles, over a measured cours,
and at a speed required to averag
forty miles an hour. Or vile coul
have made that flight this evenins
but it was almost dark when he q
last alighted, after a fight whic
would have carried him almost twic
across the English Channel.
| POignancy was adde to today
achievement of Orville Wright by tn
realization by everybody present tha
upon his last attempt to navigate tn
air with a passenger, that passengel
Lieutenant Selfridge, was killed. All
he himself terribly injured His de
voted sister, Miss Katherine Wrigh
who never left him through the pc
riod of his recovery after The disastel
anxiously watched him today fror
the doorway of the shed where tn
aeroplane is kept, and when he Ie
turned unhurt from his flight grippe
him eagerly by the arm, nestled he
face against his breast, and said:
"Bully for you, brother, 1t wa
beautiful"
1t is a question whether this wor
of praise was not more to him thai
that which came a few minutes late
| when the President of the Unite;
States, who had waited from him a
the other end of the great parad
ground, took him warmly by the han
and with the other grasping that o
his brother Wilbur, said:
81 congratulate you heartily. sir. i
was a great exhibition. You beat tn
4 world record"
''Yes, SIR replied Orville, evidentl
embarrassed. ''I beat my brother
record"
/ The President and everybody in til
crowd about joined in the laughte
at this sally.