Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-27
LATHAM BREAKS
WORLDS RECORD
IN M0N0PLANE
FRENCH AVIATOR SETS NEW MARX
IN AIR FOR TIME AND
DISTANCE.
OUTRIDES A SEVERE STORM,
Squall of Wind and Rain Breaks Over
Aerodrome, but Da1ing Navigator
Only Goes Higher.
TRAVELS "a MILES IN FLIGHT.


tempt this afternoon Hubert Latham,
the French aviator, broke the worlds
record for time and endurance.
He came down after he had covered
about 153 kilometers or 95.01 miles. The
previous record for distance was S3.01
miles, made by Paullan Wednesday.
Latham started on ais second effort to
day shortly after o'clock. The breeze,
when he got away, was less than three
meters a second, but there were ominOus
black clouds on the horizon, and during
the aviatOr's fourth lap "A sharp squat of
wind and rain broke over the aerodrome.
The spectators did not believe ii possible
for Latham to ride out the storm, but
to their delight he only mounted the high
or, and took his machine over the trib-
unes at height of 300 feet His time
for the first round was 9 minutes % 40
seconds; the second round II minutes,
81 ID seconds; the third round y min
uteS Al seconds: the fourth SO minutes,
- 30 seconds; the tif Oh A minutes and
4S seconds; the sixth 80 minutes, 90 40
seconds; the seventh l hour 3 minutes,
6 seconds, and the eighth, / hour / min
utes % 80 seconds. The eighth lap was
covered in 8 minutes 20 3-5 seconds, the
fastest time Latham has yet made. His
time at the completion of tie ninth lap
was l hour 10 minutes, 80 % seconds.
In this competition Latham is using his
celebrated No 10 He made his fight
this morning with his No. 10"
Only Man Left Flying.
During the tenth round the wind
dropped to five meters Il second. Latham
was the only man flying over the field.
He completed his tenth round. giving
,,f I-ilp,patarS I
miles, as steady as a liner in l hour %
minutes and II seconds after his start.
During the eleventh round the wind was
blowing between three and five meters
a second. His time at the end Of the
eleventh round was l hour sc minutes
46 seconds and at the end of the twelfth
it was | hour 10 minutes 80 seconds.
During Latham's fifth and sixth laps,
the official signals indicated a wind
blowing at the rate of ten meters a sec
cOnd. The speilbound crowd breathless-
ly watched the fraiI machine battling
against the heavy gusts. The wings Of
the mOnODlane often huttered like those
of a bird caught in a heavy storm, but
the machine maintained its steady prog
ress. Latham smiled and waved his
hand in response to the enthusiastic
cheering as he passed over the tribunes.
Programme Busy One.
day of aviation week, included the con
tinuation Of the trials for the Grand
priX de La Champagne, the endurance
test, the lap event. the speed event
race between dirigible balloons, and
landing competitor for spherical bal
looms.
Latham, in a beautiful monoplane,
was the first aviator to get away. He
announced his intention to make an eff
fort TO beat Paulhan's great record for
the endurance prize, made yesterday, >
hours 53 minutes and n seconds La
than started flying at great height
SOmmer. Cockburn. Bunau-N arilla, Dele
grange and finally Glenn H. Curtiss, the
American contestant, followed Latham
into the air. Curtiss' purpose was TO
improve his record in the speed lap con
test to qualify for one of the six prizes
in the endurance contest. He accom-,
plished three rounds in an impressive
manner, but his speed was disappoint
ing. His total time was % minutes
80 30. BY rounds his showing was as
follows: minutes 81 % seconds; >
minutes 30 - seconds, and 10 minutes
SO Is seconds
Interesting Race in Air.
In the meantime. the other flyers ex-
cept Latham and Delegrange had alight
ed without doing anything. \ note
worthy feature was witnessed when
Delegrange, flying low, started to over
take Latham. who was still high in the
air. There was a pretty race for four
miles and Delegrange was overhaullng
Latham when he was compelled to de
scend. Latham. after covering 20 kilo
meters (43.41 niles was obI:ged TO de-
scend because of trouble with his igni-
ton. Ten minutes later he was in the
air again, racing with another machine.
Curtiss declared that he did not push
his machine this morning, but he doubt
ed whether he could beat his time of
yesterday Bleriot. therefore. will be
the winner on form if he can go the
distance.
The Wright managers intend to make
a desperate effort to wrest the endurance
prize from Paulham and capture the
height and weight carrying events. Lee
febyre in 2 Wright machine with
tank holding 90 litres of fue, will make
Il try.
Blerot Carries Passenger.
Bleriot made his first appearance in
the fed today carrying a passenger
He negotiated a trial round in 5 minutes
So seconds.
representative of the Aero club of
Italy arrived here today and is making
arrangements to take the aviators and
their machines on special trains TO Bres-
ella next Tuesday. He is particularly
anxious that Curtiss 90 to Italy. and
probably will offer him special condi-
tons.
Fournier was about with a broken
nose this morning. He received many
congratulations on his narrow escape
of yesterday. when 4 fortunate jump
from his machine, that had turned tur-