Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-06-04
WONDER OF WORLD
FEAT OF.GLENN CURTISS And
HIS AER0PLANE.
Miles, In Two Hours and 80 Minutes
With His Heavier han-Air Machine
He Won a $4,000 Prize-Flew Faster
Than Mile-a~Minute Train.

New York, May 30.-Glenn II. Curtiss
flew from Albany to New York city in
an aeroplane Sunday, winning the
$4,000 prize offered by the New York
World.
He covered the distance of 1877 miles
in two hours and 80 minutes, and came
to earth as calmly and as lightly as
pigeon.
His average speed for the distance
54.06 miles an hour-surpasses any other
record made by aeroplane in long-dis-
lance fight, and in its entirety his
fight eclipses anything man has at
tempted in heavier-than-air machine.
The start was made from Albany at
1880 O'Clock Sunday morning under
weather conditions as nearly perfect as
the most fastidious aviator could de-
mand. One hour and 23 minutes later
he had made his stopping place near
Poughkeepsie, where there was an
hour s intermission. Resuming his fight
at 1926 he sped southwark and landed
within the boundary of Manhattan ISL
and at 1885.
Only 100 yards north of the point at
which his craft settled stretched Spuy-
ten Devil creek, separating Manhattan
island from the mainland. Had he failed
to cross this his flight would have been
in vain, but as he swept over it the
prize was his. Thence to Governor 3 ISL
and, his task was but the concluding lap
of race already won.
Speedier Than Paulham's Flight.
Paulham s flight from London to Man
chester-166 miles-exceeded this Cur
tiss feat in distance, but not in speed
| and danger. The Frenchman' 8 average
was 44.3 miles an hour, and below him
| lay English meadowland. Curtiss fol
lowed the windings of the historic Hud
son river, with jutting headlands
wooded slopes and treacherous palisades
He swung high over the great bridge al
Poughkeepsie, dipped at times within 81
| feet of the rivers broad surface anc
jockeyed like falcon at the turns.
| Only once did his craft show signs o.
rebellion. This was off Storm King, neal
West Point, when at height of nearl,
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threw his planes awry.
The machine dropped 40 feet AM
tilted perilously, but Curtiss kept hi
head and by adroit manipulation re
stored the equilibrium.
A special train chartered by the Time
followed the aeroplane all the journey
The total time of Curtiss' figh
through the $50 miles of his trip wa
two hours and 46 minutes. He conclude
the flight at 10 o. clock sharp, and spen
one hour and four minutes resting nea
Poughkeepsie, and one hour and seve
minutes resting at Two Hundred an
Fourteenth street, when he replenishe
: his reservoir with oil. The New Yor
: Central s fastest train, the Twentiet
Century limited, would make the sam
run, minus the distance from Forty-se'
ond street to Governors island, or Ia
miles, in two hours and 81 minutes, {
49.6 miles an hour, a mile every minui
and 10 seconds. Curtiss' average spec
was 54.1S miles an hour, which is equi
to a mile in every minute and six Sc
onds.
= Anxious Moment at Storm King.
}. The time when it seemed most like
to those on the Times train that Curti
9 would fail in his flight was when he e
g countered Storm King mountain and 8
j. it's terrors. What the water navigate
N | bova cold of IL was none too strong