The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-28
Johnst0ne and HOxsey Fly for Altitude and Land
 Many Miles Away
WIND PLAYS SMASH WITH
 REGULAR PROGRAMME
Rowling storm Follows Flurrics 0f Wind and Prevents Any Attempt at Flying By Anyone But the
 Wright Aviators

l New York. October 27-Such are the caprices of October weather that Ralph Johnstone and Arch Hoxsey, of the l Wright team of ayiators. went up for altitude at Belmont this afternoon and brought down the record of the day for distance. The fifth day of the inter- national aviation meet opened full of promise and closed in howling west CT that filled the air with whirling autumn leaves. slammed down benches in the grandstand. ripped out the can | vass screens that bar the view of those who have not paid but hope to gaze, and send a cloud of dust around the track that the flare lamps had to be- lighted outside the hangars for tho mechanics to find their way about. It was a furious end to day of post ponements, disappointments and scat | tered feats of the most daring airman- ship that have yet been shown to an American crowd.
 Officially flights for the Gordon Ben- nett elimination trials, to pick an American team which shall defend the international trophy won at Rheims last year by Glenn H. Curtiss, opened at 9 o'clock this morning but no one cared to come out in the strong wind. At 1:so the special prizes of slO.0o0 offered by Thomas Fortune Ryan for a flight from the field to the statue of Liberty and return was open to any aviator but none of them dared try. They came to talk instead of the lar- gesse allowed them by the committees permission to compete between 10:3e and 4:45 any afternoon during the meet. provided only that they should finish before 5:30.
 Only One Event
 That narrowed the programme down to one hourly event for distance and altitude. Latham, In an Antoinette mon- oplane, for distance. and those insatiate rivals Hoxsey and Johnstone of the Wright team, for altitude, were the only ones to brave a gale of from 15 to 25 miles an hour. # Johnstone and Hoxsey tried to ini- itate the gull to set their wings and soar into the gale without effort, but they showed that the "way of an eagle in the air. Is still one of the things man does not understand. They kept tn cir boise beautifully but although the speed of the biplanes they were flying Is normally 35 miles an hour and their engines were running wide open. they were pushed steadily out of view and down over the edge of the horizon. The upper gales they struck must have been more than 40 miles an hour. but neither was willing fo come down be- fore the other and they stuck it out until forced to land by sheer compuI- sion of the elements.
 Both were driven miles off the course.
 
 had landed safely at Brentwood, Long Island, about 25 miles distant John stone, still resolutely stuck it out and was carried 55 miles to Middle Island Village, l.. I. Theirs were the two longest flights of the day. Both tele- phoned that they hoped to fly back to the course tomorrow.
 Wilbur Wright Talks
 Neither of them could be caught on the telephone again after they had reported to Wilbur Wright and from him came the details of their adventures.
 Incidents said Mr. Wright. There were not any. 1t was, just one straight forward progress backwards When they got up a thousand feet or more they struck a wind blowing about 25 miles an hour faster than they could travel estimate that 1t must have been betweeh e5 and 70 miles an hour. So they just H.. I guest It's the first time in the history of aviation that anybody ever made a flight tall end foremost"
 special for distance and for altitude was added to the programme to amuse the crowd, but 1t was long before any one came out for it. Finally Audemars. a Swiss is a tiny. Defnoisselle. danced over the course but 1t was no weather for yellow butterfly and sfte- --- he learned prudence and \
 the hanger. If he had s4 minute earlier he might T3s easiest money of the meeN s Jaf in hourly distance-with on< .e, bomb banged before he wa cd .- ters way around.
 To Brookins. instead, r. r3 money With a flight las lr fe minutes, in which he rose t. 7tr. 4f titude of 65o feet. he brougns Nn 5 for first place in special e oi s'ti- tude duration 1t could not C. slles a contest because he had no ieti but Brookins felt he had slrnt ss money. ''Twenty-five dollar r may seem high" he said, out to prove the ability of a, tes cr1 machine to ride a gale that n, ecrgittf would dare.'
 Windstorm Comes U
 few moments after he la the windstorrn and all the ot as 3sss were called off. The records or S S-sft and Hoxsey for altitude will nt s a t4 able until their barographs stit back tomorrow. Complete A. impossible to give today's full sttcleftee but so far as they availatc as follows:
 First hourly distance tevenr-won by Latham (Antoinette), IA laps PIT miles. Time. 55 minutes. PAS seconds. No otheR starters.
 First hourly altitude and duration Won by Brookjns CWrghD. 20 minutes. Height. $50 feet tunofficiaD No second or third.
 Totalization of duration-Not included in today's competitions. Standing of the prize winners:
 >~Hoxsey. slS25; White, si7n0; Latham. s1400; Moissant, s1200; 'Johnstone. Ss75: Drexel, $500; de 1.esseps. s650; Au- burn, s650: Raldey.. $500: Brooklns, $55o2 Ely. $100; Mars. s100 McCurdy, $50: Wil- la ri S5D Tf