The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03
NIPIGIBLE BALLOONS
MAKE EVOLUTIONS
AROUND AEROPLAHES
,y,tp BEST DREAMS OF ROMANCE
WRITER'S HAVE COME
TRUE.
FlRNlE BREAKS REC0R D
Numb From The Cold, Aviator
Uescends as Darkness Comes
ON And is Given an ovation-Was
Glad to Stop.

RHEIMS, Aug. 2S.--Those who have
been attending the aviation meeting
since the beginning did not dare 10
hone that the sixth day could hold
in reserve any new sensation for
them. Displays of speed and endur,
ance like Latham's, Paulhans and
Bleriots might, they thought. be re-
heated and even excelled, but it
seemed impossible to expect that any
thing of a nature yet unseen would
occur to again arouse feeling of won
der and excitement Nevertheless
the seemingly impossible did occur,
and those who watched the two dirig-
ible balloons, the Zodiac and the Co
lionel Renard, making evolutions while
half dozen aeroplanes flew around
them, felt that the widest dreams of
the romance writer's were within dis
lance of being realized.
The record went again to Farman,
who gained the first prize of $4,000
francs with his biplane in the contest
for the grand prize of champaign, a
duration contest He flew 1S0 kilome-
ties, about 1922 miles, in three hours, !
four minutes, Sc seconds, breaking the !
worlds time and distance records. |
His flight ended officially at 1880
when, in accordance with the rules,
official time-keeping ceases, as dark
hess makes control impossible, but
Farman made one more round, adding
six miles to his score. He stopped in
front of the grandstand, where, in the
brilliant illumination of the electric
lights, the crowd had commenced to
dine. He fell rather than stepped
from his seat paralyzed by the cold.
The crowd made rush to carry him
to the stand, but he begged them to 4
leave him alone until his circulation
became normal Then a huge fire I
man hoisted him on his back and car /
ried him among the diners, where M. {
minister of public works, \
him on his achieve
nent end the band played God Save i
he King" in honor of Farman's Brit \
sh parentage, io
Subsequently Farnan said he was Y
glad to stop his flight owing to the h
'old and darkness. In fact he mar Y
oWly escaped coming in collision
With Boston on the last round. The d
light was not an impressive one ex- n
ept for Farman's steady perseverance.
lie kept at low height all the time. r
lie used his own birlane which differs !
rom the Voisin machine in not hav.
lg upright division between the hori-
ontal planes like Paulham, he used
gnome engine. He started with 70
tres Of petrol and 80 litres of oil at S
80, when the signals showed the
III" was blowing at the rate DelOW
* miles an hour and the rate did
OF increase throughout. At o'clock
ghts were placed at each corner of W
le course as guides to the flyers. 1t II
as then so chilly that everyone in 81
le press box was glad to put on his Vi
'eFcoat, and at the same Gme won nj
erng how the aviator, flying SO miles &c
hour was standing the cold. Every be
und was made in ten minutes with Or
varying number of seconds ranging sa
ON one to fifty-two, the average be- tn
6 seventeen, except the fifth which
Ok II minutes 26 seconds. The n
st time was 10 minutes l second. ~