The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-30
MADE GREAT
RECORD FLIGHT
Orville Wright Breaks Tie
Worlds Aeroplane Re
cord on Tuesday.
ne AADE FIFTY NILES IN VERY FAST 1IkE
Thirty-Five Hundred People
Witnessed Flight of
The Aeroplane.

Washington, July 81. - The
worlds aeroplane record for carry
ing two men, both in time and dis
lance was broken this evening by
.Orville Wright, who with Lieutenant
Frank P. Lahm, of the signal corps,
flew more than fifty miles, averaging
forty miles per hour and remaining
in the air an hour, twenty minutes
and forty seconds. The former rec
ord made last year by Wilbur
Wright in France was one hour and
nine minutes. Orville could have
remained in the air three hours and
a half today, which is the limit of
his gasoline tank. BY almost
thirteen minutes he exceeded the re-
quirements of the government So
called endurance test, which re-
quires them to remain in the air n
hour continuously with n passen-
ger.
President Taft, who sat an in
terested spectator, led the cheering.
Gully for you, brother, it was
beautiful" he said to Orville. 81
congratulate you heartily ON the
great exhibition. You came down
as easily and gracefully as you went
up; you beat the worlds record"
YES" replied Orville, evidently
embarrassed, II beat my brothers.
record"
Threatening weather kept the
crowd down to about thirty-five hun
dred people present when Lieuten-
ant Laham took his place in the
center of the machine, the same
place Lieutenant Selfridge took ten
months ago, when he was killed and
Orville badly injured. The aero
plane scared gracefully into the air,
there never being amy possible ques-
ton about its bouyancy and equi-
poise. Round an round it went,
s~eventy-four times about the great
drill ground, four thousand feet in
circumference. keeping about sixty
feet high, when an hour ended.
Cheers and auto horns footed amid
waving OF hats and handkerchief
by old men. The flying craft task
had been accomplished, but Orville
kept on just the same after his
brothers. record, when he beat this
Wilbur ram beneath the machine
waving his hat and shouting and
showing his first sign of emotion
since he came to Fort Meade. The
crowd yelled Historically while the
machine descended and slid along
the ground and stopped at almost
the identical spot where last Sep
TENDERS fall occurred.
81 was nervous at first" said
Orville. 1T was my first attempt
with a passenger since last fall, but
gradually the machine found herself
and l felt as sure as if / swung at
the end of a string. l could have re-
NAMED. up another hour. Tomorrow
l will try across country flight to
Alexandria and back with passen-
gers
Dover, July 27.-Herbert Lath-
am, the French aviator, fell into the
English Channel with his aeroplane
last night. He had almost complet-
ed the journey across the stretch OF
water, his machine falling within
two miles of Dover.
Calais Latham left at 6 p. M, in
his effort to cross the English Chan
mel to Dover and continue his
fight from that city to London.
Thousands of persons cheered as
the %aeroplane shot out over the chan.
mel. Boats were stationed from the
French to the English coast to res
u Latham, should he fall into the
water.
He was picked up by a boat from
an English battleship and brought
to shore. where it was found thai
his face is cut and nose broken. The
machine, badly wrecked, wa:
brought here. It flew faster thar
did Bleriot's and was in the air onl!
twenty minutes when it fell into thu
sea. Thousands of people lined tn'
cliffs and cheered the aviator wher
he was brought ashore.