The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-10-28
ASCENDS 7,1O5 FEET, THEREBY
ESTABLISHING MARK FOR
THIS COUNTRY.
GOOD DAY AT BELMONT
5rookins Shoots Up 1922 Feet-Ten
Aviators Make the Air Hum
at International
Meet.

New York, n. Y. : The third day
the international aviation meet at Bel
mont park, Long Island, made up for
all the damp, cold and disappointment
of the first two days, A new American
record for altitude was set down to
the credit of J Armstrong Drexel anc
the competition III the other events
was at all times a thing of delight, full
OF zest, action and beauty. The air
fairly hummed with the buzz of the
dipping, dancing craft and their fin
cessant evolutions We're so swift and
so intricate that the spectators could
cot follow them and even the official
scored Jagged behind.
Drexel scared for altitude in his rec
ord flight at just $40 p. M, five min
uteS before the second hourly altitude
contest closed. III great, lazy circles
he crept into the wind. pointing high
er and higher to a height of 7,1G5 feet.
Beneath him three busy ~biplanes were
scattering the track like so many spa
ows in a panic racing for places in
the grand speed event.
Made Close Estimate.
His descent was swift. but unhur-
ried and he landed lightly in the mid
die of the field. There was immediate
surmise that he had approached if he
had not established a new record, but
no figures We're available until his bar
ograph had been unsealed and the
reading of the s~tylograph on the plot
ted sheet inside it examined. DreXel
had made, however, what proved to be
a remarkable clos estimate of what he
had done. I've been up more than
1900 feet he said, land let me tell
you it was cold
The Paragraph is an aneroid barom.
eter to which has been attached a re-
volving drum of plotted paper driven
by clockWork, with a recording stylus
attached. The instrument shows both
the height end the time at which it
was made. DreXeis reading was re-
markably sharp and showed clearly
that he had risen 1,l05 feet. The best
previous American record was 6,l75
feet, made by Walter Brookins at At
lantic City; and DreXeIs w best rec
ord, made last summer in Great Brit
ain. was $3.50 feet, at the time the
worlds record. The worlds altitude
record Is 9,16S feet. held by Henry
Wynmalen, a HollanGer.
Brookins went up 4.S22 feet and won
second altitude honors for the day. At
the apex Of his climb. his engine,
which had given him some trouble be-
fore, stopped dead, with both the pro-
pelloIs pointing straight up in the air,
SO that IN gliding to earth with no pow
er on, they afforded him the least re-
s~istance in breaking the rush of his DEF
scent. He came down Whizzing, about
a mile and a half off the course, and
struck with a bump which broke his
forward landing skid.
Next to the performance OF Drexel
the crowd took most enjoyment in the
appearance of models never seen in
America before. The debutantes Of
the air coGrtsied to the grand stand
before crossing the starting lines and
waited Oft on their first round of the
course.
Some Novel, Filters.
They were the new Wright climber.
used by Brookins in his altitude
flights, a tiny Demoiselle. called the
lIumming-bird aeroplane, but it looks
more like q butterfly; and a flying fish,
AntoinCtte. In all there were ten ma
| chimes aioit at once.