Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31
WRIGHT ACHIEVES
GREAT SUCCESS
Made Most Difficult Flight Ever.
Planned for Heavier-Tha n-Air
Airship and Broke Records.
ALL WORKED PERFECTLY
Aeroplane Swept Down the Course
Like Giant Bird--Was q Thrill
Ing Experience.

Like Giant Bird-Was q Thrill
Ing Experience.
Washington, July sO.-orville
Wright this evening attained the
zenith OF hard-earned success. In a
10 mile cross county In the famous
saeroplane built by himself and his
brother Wilbur. and accompanied by
Lieut.. Benjamin d. Foulers of the
army signal corps, he not only sur
passed the speed requirements of his
contract with the goverrmnt, but ac-
8complished the mostt difficult flight
ever planned for a heavier-than-air
flying machine.
Z incidentally. he broke all 3speed re-
cords over a measured course. His
speed was more than ~ miles an
hour. He made the 10 miles, flight in
IA minutes and AZ seconds. He went
up nearly 500 feet in his crossing Of
the valley Of F'our-Mile Run, and his
average altitude was about 200 feet.
TAFT A SPECTATOR.
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President Taft arrived upon the pa
8rade ground at Fort Myer just in
time to see the aeroplane land and to
participate in the wild demonstration
which welcomed the triumphant avia-
tors.
great crowd watched while Or
Vile Wright had the machine placed
on the starting rail and gave the
motor final test 55a
The engine worked perfectly, and
the people seemed to realize that an
epoch making moment was at hand.
They pressed forward against the
less, intense. eagerly watching every
movement of the aviator and his ma
chine. 55
Lieut.. F'oulers climbed into the pas
senger seat beside the motor. Wilbur
took his place at the right tip of the
planes, and Oryille clambered into his
scat beside Foulers
He gripred the levers and slipped
the cable which released the starting
weight. The aeroplane shot down the
track, rose before 1t reached the end.
and skinned over the ground for
100 feet or more.
AS If. drawn by Invisible powers. il
rose higher and higher. reached the
end Of the field, turned at slight
angle, and came about, facing the
Misunderstanding multitude.
Hats and handkerchiefs We're waving
automobile horns We're footing, some
over wrought spectators Hen5yWept as
the great white creature turned again
southwark at the starting tower
! Then with a short turn Orville swept
almost over the heads of the closely
| banked spectators and started straight
southwark. over the center of the drill
| field Isl
s.They are off,, shouted a thousaS(
| voices. ,ls,
FLEW LIKE A BIRD.
Like IA giant bird, the aeroplan'
swept unswervingly down its course
LIT kept straight to the south, ant
seemed to be raising ever higher as ]
passed over the diverse and heayil.
| wooded country in the distance.
| Those who had glasses saw thu
aeroplane turn. first to the left. thei
/ to the right, above Shutter Hill. Thei
lit was lost to view and as the sec
onds passed a SILENCE grew upon tn
crowd.
AS the delay in the aeroplan,
again rising above the skyline becam.
seemingly alarming great beads 9
Wright's brow, and his agitation wa
evident.
Suddenly the speck came IN sigh
over the distant hill. 55g5 II
There it isl everybody said, ant
| 1.-The sigh of relief was plainly audible
Soon the aerial navigators We're HON,
again over the drill grounds, flyint
1 very low. Orville steered straigh
/ across the field, and at Il height o
/ about 90 feet swung around again to TIL
4 southwark, and landed Tar down tn
i field, The task was done. and he wa!
| greeted with deafening cheers.
Despite the notice that nobody woult
] he allowed upon the field. there was ;
! rush Of the crowd which almost eludet
\ the Gordon Of mounted men on guard
sGalloping horses brushed the peopl'
/, back however. and the lines were re
i formed
Wilbur at once began calculating TIL
4 speed of the trip. which, after he ha'
4 consulted with Lieut.. Foulers. he fig
4 ured at 42Ea miles an hour.
I'VE We're making SO miles an hou
i coming back" said Foulers Orvlll
/ said: q
It's easier 10 fly across countr,
! than round a field.
i He seemed more impressed by TIL
lesson that the unusual flight ha,
taught him than by any sense Of hi
4 achievement. I'VE We're forced off gu
1 added, iand in turning at the lowe
4 end Il down trend of air took me lowe
4 than l meant to go. i was forced t
4 climb higher in starting back,
4 Gas we crossed the valley of -Four
Mile Run on the way back a down
4 trend made it necessary to climb rap
idly to get up in the air above TIL
hills. I"
Even more dramatic than its depart
ure from Fort Myer was the adVen
of the aeroplane and its passengers a
4 the southerly turning point on Shute
a hill just outside of Alexandria. Their
4 the usual crowd was gazing eagerl
into the sky.
The detail of. cavalry on duty
i Keep back the people forgot the purpos
Of their presence and sat upon thel
4 horses watching the blurred appari
y ton.
1t was quickly seen that throug
some niscalculation of steering tn
aeroplane, If it kept in straigf
4 course, must turn the stake rballoo
( from the east to the right instead {
Il from the west to the left, as had bee
y exr,A,,t cd iEuddenly the flayiEat or n,