The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-12
DAY OF THR|LLERS
AT ATLANTIC CITY
Many Spectacular Feats
Are Performed by
Aeroplanes.
GLENN CURTISS
HAS NEW RECORD
Sets Up American Figures for
Fifty-Mile Flight, Then Sweeps
Around Entire Seaside Re
sort - Brookins M axes
Triple Turn, Standing
Machine on End.

Atlantic City, N. j., July 1i.-Glenn
Curtiss set an American record for a
hfty-mile flight in an aeroplane this
afternoon by covering a half hundred
measured miles in emile laps along
the beach in elapsed time of one hour
fourteen minutes and hfty-nine sec
onds- Curtiss was in the air one hour
and thirty minutes. and spent one
hour twenty-one minutes and Ave
seconds on the course. six minutes and
six seconds being deducted for the
turns at the two ends of the two and
sone-half mile course.
At the end OF his fifty-mtle flight
Curtiss swept his machine back over
the waterways on the meadow side OF
the city. and made an entire circuit Of
the resort before he descended.
In the early evening Curtlss set a
new mark for quick climbing by
sweeping his machine 1900 feet in the
air, in five minutes and fifty-one sec
onds
Average Of Forty Miles.
After a wait OF hours for a slowing
down of the sharp southerly wind,
which swept in from the ocean. Cur
tiss rose in the air at 1922 P. 81. After
short warming up spin. he swun g
back over the upper mark made by
range flags on a boardwalk building
at Massachusetts Avenue, and started
on his long fly. Owing TO the cross
winds, which still held strong in the
upper air. Curtiss never reached a
faster speed than fifty miles an hour.
his average for the race being about
forty miles.
The time for each of the fve-rnile
$40 40; second. s:ot 25 third,
7:s7 LIS: fourth. 7:s3 40; NTH.
8:3a 1-2; sixth. 7:as: seventh, 727 Ia;
eighth, ~ i-2. ninth, 7:2i a-1o; tenth.
7:21 is.
The course laid out by the officials
for the daring aviator was along tine
edge of the ocean from Massachusetts,
Avenue on the north to Dover Avenue
on the south. thus bringing Curtiss
and his flying machine within the
range of view Of people from the in
let down TO Centnor.
Practically all OF Atlantic City was
on the boardwalk or on the beach
watching the flight
Curtiss's contract ends tonight,
leaving Brookins in possession OF the
$4,000 altitude prize wo non Saturday
evening when he made worlds re-
cord Of s,175 feet, and which will be
given to him tomorrow. The Wright
:her he xiii go after the ffty-n nile
prize of $1,000 which will otherwise
go to Curtiss.
Many Thrillers.
Curtiss's spectacular climb of 1000
feet into the air came at the end of a
thrilling series of exhibitions of fly
ing that kept the big crowd of specta-
tors on the boardwalk and beach in
succession Of cheers
Brookins started up Immediately af-
terward and described curves and
turns ending with his first exhibition
of triple turn that almost stood his
machine on end. Brookins and Coffyn
then went up together, with Brookins
driving the biplane, getting off we'll
after false start, caused by a loose
running rail.
Later in the day Coffyn went up
alone, giving another thrilling exhibi-
tion of turning and swooptng. During
his lone flight Brooktns made a 1000
foot sweep along the beach Just over
the heads of the crowd, ending by
driving his machine over the break
ers hardly a foot from the surf.
The exhibition did not conclude un-
til long after sundown.
Although Curtiss's contract for fly
ing here ends tonight, he will prob
ably make exhibition flights to-mor-
row and will probably attempt to drop
sham bombs on the outline of battle
ship to be amrked out on sand. Brook
ins and Coffyn will remain until We'd
nesday, and will make an attempt to
break Curtisss record for a quick al
titude rise in their Wright machine.