New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-27
L4T'HAM COVERS NEARLY
NINETY-SIY MILES.
Bler;ot's Machine Crashes Into Fence
Holding Back Cro1rd-Other
Flights at Rheims.

hertz unsuccessful
q notable achievement at the present meeting
~ establishing a worlds record for dis
,.nce l54 kilometres. 6JO metres. or - SIS miles
Ne covered fifteen laps. or 40 Kilometres in =
bours Is minutes and 9 seconds. and the f1l
distance in hours Is minutes and. @ :B-5 sec
ends which also are worlds records the fighl
tsing at the rate OF about 6S1s kilometres M
hour compared with the 53ls made by Wright
81 lie Mans and a fraction under the fifty made
by ~ Paulhsn yesterday.
Except for the one lap speed records made by
n Bleriot and Mr.. Curtiss this week, and NJ
Paulhan's time record in the air. Latham now
holds every record for distance and speed Like
Nr Paulhan. he descended only when his gaso-
lsne tank empty.
The long fight was beautiful and impressive
No other aeroplane here compares with La
thsms monoplsne in grace OF lines. The slight
ly tilted planes from the long. skifTlike body
make 81 resemble a winged canoe. while high
up in the air it looks like a great dragon fly
For an hour with 1uttering wings like living
thing. it fought its way against the storm OF
rain and wind az an average height of $50 feet
mounting higher the wind rose until during
the worst Of the storm ii was up fully 800 feet
The contention OF tho advocates Of the bipIane
that the monoplane would be unable TO fly in
strong breeze has been amply refuted.
~ Latham earlier in the day. with No 1s
another aeroplane Of the same tvpe made
flight Of more than 20 kilometres. and after he
had finished in the afternoon Count de Lambert
covered lis kilometres C72-0S miles) in COM
rnandng fashion. Three flights. therefore. in n
single day covered more than 2lO miles
Glenn H. Curtiss. the American. had two prac-
iice spins. but although his machine behaved
well its speed disappointing.
N. BLERIoT'S NARROW ESCAPE.
dusk may improve Mr. Curtiss's chances for the
International Cup. While trying 20 alight I'm
front Of the tribune with passenger aboard his
big so-horsepower machine. n. Bleriot crashed
into a fence, the wings and propeller being
broken. He narrowly missed killing several Of
the spectators Whether the motor was injured
has not been learned. If IL was. Mr.. Curtiss's
most dangerous rival has been put at disad-
vantage. NJ. Bleriot intended TO use the
wrecked machine in the international event al
though he qualified with another.
n. Rougier while giving an exhibition also
landed among a crowd at luncheon on the grass
and slightly injured two women and man. n.
Blsriot insists that hts accident was not due to
rscklessness. with which he Uss charged by the
~~sd. he asserts that squadron OF dragons
moving across the field and crowded him
rrard the fence. compelling him to choose be-
tween landing among the horses or into the
barrier. Neither n. Bleriot nor N. De la Grange.
who was the passenger with him. was hurt.
To-days contests altered the classification for
TIE Prix de Champagne. the figures now stand
ing: Latham. 1874 kilometres: Pauhan. 13l;
Count de Lambert. lie: Latham. 20: Curtisss30.
LefebTre. p. NJ. Latham's two records were
made with different machines.
For the Prix de la Vitesse for three rounds Of
The course al greatest speed. the record TO date
s as follows;
TIssander 2s minutes So Is seconds; Count
De Lambert. % minutes seconds; Paulhan, 81
minutes 492 2-5 seconds: Lefebvre. % minutes
2s1-5 seconds: latham. 81 minutes 30 Is sec
onds Sommer also qualified
The lap speed contest record Is:
Tissandier minutes 26 1-5 seconds; sommer.
II minutes "a 2-5 seconds: Count de Lambert 2
minutes 33 % seconds: Curtiss. minutes
ll5-5 seconds; Latham. in No. IL, minutes
22-5 seconds; Delagrang-. II minutes S5
seconds: Ferber. 9 minutes 20 4-5 seconds; Paul
ban, 10 minutes 20 seconds: Bleriot. 3 minutes
s2-5 seconds: lie Blanc. Il minutes 9 3-5 sec
onds. Lefebvre \ minutes - 40 seconds:
Bunau-Vsria, II minutes IL % seconds:
Latham. in No -. minutes 2O2-5 seconds;
Fsrman. 2 minutes o % seconds; Cockburn. IL
minutes 2s seconds.
LATHAMs PLANS IN FINAL CONTEST.
M. Latham. who made thirty kilometres twice
Eii use his airshiD No. % in the final of the
speed contest Sunday. He could afford 90
TAKE one-tenth handicap as a repetition of his
Performance would beat the best time the
Wright models have done.
Counting his flight Of this morning N. Latham
new to-day over l44 miles. He broke "A wing OF
ms machine in alighting. but WAS not injured.
hy his flight to-day he has classified as first
N The Prix de Ia Champagne He covered the
course fifteen times. and after passing the finish
mark on the last trip travelled distance OF
'klometres and 375 metres before landing
The aerOnaut returned To his shed in an auto
mobile. AS he passed in front OF the tribunes
ne was enthusiastically cheered. He said he
nsa aiighted because his gasOlene was ex-
nslsted But / viii take more next time" he
ADDED iaughingiy. He said his machine had be-
.lsfed splendidly throughout the flight He ad-
ni'ied having experienced a moments trepida-
.sn during the worst OF the squalls
DETAILS OF THE LONG FLIGHT
Al Latham started on his second effort to-day
soon after o'clock The breeze. when ne got
sNsy was less than three metres a second but
mere were ominous black clouds on the horizon,
e'iu on his fourth lap sharp squall OF wind and
ran broke over the aerodrome. The spectators
uo not believe IL possible for Latham 10 ride out
.Ae storm. but 90 their delight ne only mounted
e HlsheT' and took his machine over the trib-
1nes az height OF three hundred feet
iils Zine al the end Of the first round was 8
MINUTES p s-5 seconds; al the second. IS min
11es 81 i-5 seconds; the third. u minutes Al
"'oohas' the fourth, SO minutes Is 3-5 seconds:
s hith AZ minutes IS seconds; the sixth, 90
MINUTES 20 40 seconds; the seventh. 1 hour 3
~A"1les seconds. and tie eighth. hour II
1lles 20 S-5 seconds. The eighth lap was