The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-28
FARMAN NOW
KING OF AIR
Beats Record of Herbert
Latham.
..LPLANi AGAIN EXCELS
Paulham Smashes Left Elades Of
Machine.
In Record Flight Farman Goes Al
most One Hundred Twelve Niles
In Little More Than
Three Hours.

A&hNSs aus Sf.AAChty Tic
English aviator. a hitherto unknown
quantity in the aviation contests. in
a bi-plane of his own design. broke the
worlds record for duration of flight
In heavier-than-ai machine today
and won the Grand Priz de La Cham
pagne-the endurance test by a re-
markable fight officially recorded as
1870 kilometers 1l1 rs miles) in
3:04:5e 2-5.
He actually covered an extra ten
kilometers and remained In the air
ten minutes after 1880 o'clock this af-
ternoon, the hour that the time keep
ers' under the rules ceased to keep rec
ord Of the flight.
The other contestants finished in the
order named:
Hubert Latham, In monoplane No. g.
154 kilometers, 500 meters 1854 miles).
Time, 2:1S:o9 SIS.
Louis Paulhan. In q voisin bi-plane,
13l kilometers.
Count de Lambert, bi-p1ane, lie kill
meters.
Hubert Latham. In monoplane No. IS,
Ill kilometers.
M. Tissandier, bi-plane, Ill kilome-
tres.
Roger sommer, b-piane. go kilome-
ters.
M. de LAGRANGE. monoplane. SO kiio-
meters.
M. Bleriot, monoplen, 40 kilometers.
Glenn II. Curtiss bi-plane, 80 kilo-
meters.
M. Lefebvre, bi-plane, 81 kilometers.
Latham Ineligible.
Although Hubert Latham. with a
different machine, took second and fifth
positions the aviation committee held
that he was ineligible for two prizes.
and awarded the fifth of M. Tissandier,
and the sixth to NJ. Sommer.
Although Farman's brilliant record
as an aeroplanist should have warned
the sharps that he was a dangerous
competitor, his victory was q complete
surprise. He had been preparing his
machine secretly and had not appeared
upon the field until today. except for a
few practice flights, and had been al
most forgotten.
Indeed, he started about 4:30. p. M,
keeping close to the ground, while La
than and the others were soaring In
spectacular fashion high in che air.
Farman attracted no attention until he
had flown eighty kilometers. Then
suddenly the watchers woke up and
began to make inquiries, only to dis
cover that he had gone out carrying
petrol enough for q five-hcur flight. and
equipped with q self-cooling revolving
motor, built by the Knome Company
after his own design.
All eyes had been riveted on this
beautiful, graceful monoplane OF La.
than. who, after Tissandier's foul OF
Paulhan in the morning, ended Paul
hans chances. had become the favor
its for the grand prix de La Cham
payne. Paulhan smashed his left
blades in a heavy wind.
ha1 fntfaA fhA nnnhanA-
ing, changing pictures unfolding above
the sunlit plain of Betheny-white-
winged birds, circling and wheeling.
The thousands of spectators literally
rubbed their eyes to make sure this
evidence of man having conquered the
air was not dream.
Trouble with his ignition plug
forced Latham to descend after he had
covered Ill kilometers and Tissandier
came down after accomplishing identi-
cally the same distance. The other
a majority of them In "aeroplane
graveyard" hollow at the lower end
of the field.
Only Farman continued. Round and
round he went as regularly as clock
work, always huggtng ground, taking
no chances, and avoiding any attempt
at display.
At the completion of the fourteenth
round 1t was seen that Latham's dis
lance record. only four kilometers
more than fifteen laps was in danger
and the completion of his seventeenth
lap put him ahead of. the record of
two hours. So minutes and "a seconds,
made .. on Wednesday by Paulham.
Farman today used a Gnome revolving
motor.
Buneau Avarilla and Captain Ferber
also had brought out their machines
for practice flights and at $3.50 o'clock
in the afternoon five aeroplanes were
circling around the course.
At this hour the spectators were