Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-01
WILBUR WRIGHT
PRAISES .B||PLANE
Secured Worlds Altitude Record
And Got GoodIy Share
Of the Honors.
M.oNopLAllE MOST PRIZES
Superiority of Either type Over tho
Otilcr Not Settled ut Belmont Park
international Aicct.

New York, Nov. 1.-The question of
superiority between the biplane and
the monoplane, which the promoters
of the Belmont park international meet
hoped to settle in the series of contests
between the best fliers OF three coun-
tries, is still an open one, according to
the Aero club officials. The Blcriot
monoplanes, thanks to the work OF
Moisant, the American, and Grahame-
White, the Englishman, took major
ity of the prize money, but the worlds
altitude records and Il goodly share .,f
the other honors went to the Wright
biplancs In the skillful hands of John
stone. Hoxsey and Brookins Wilbur
| Wright expresses himself as satisfied
with the showing of the bipluncs.
! Everyone talked monoplanc before
the meet began" he said, but I think
we have demonstrated that the BIZ
plane which got the duration and alti-
tude prizes, was the machine that had
by far the best control. The backward
flights of HoXsey and tombstone in Il
5O-mile gale and the sharp turns OF
HoXseys and Brookins several thousand
feet in the air showed control.
and the biplane would have had
the prize for speed but for Br0okins'
unfortunate accident. We had the fast
est machine. BY our actual tests, 1t
was at least five miles faster than lie
Blanc's. The trouble was that Brook
ms was not experienced enough IN It's
use. We will soon prove by official
tests at Dayton that the machine he
broke on the day of the race for the
James Gordon Bennett trophy will
make at least so miles an hour. We
shall be ready to seek the cup next
year with a machine capable of prob
ably 20lmles more than that. Il,
1t became known today, that the
Wrights and the French team came
near extending the meet a day or two
on their own account. NJ. Boreal, for
the French team, sent one Of his men
over.to the Wright hangar late yester-i
sdny3With a2challenge to.a race between
q 50-horsepowerB leriot and a S0-horse-
power Wright. Wilbur scrubbed his.
answer ase1ulck asa flash:
I'VE will ACCEPT that and race you
tomorrow.
4 But an hour later. NJ. Boreal sent
word that his men had declined after
all.
AvIAToRs FOLD MACHINES.
The aeroplanes of all types, which
have been giving the spectators at the
Belmont park aviation field many n
thrill the last few days are being
Grated for shipment. The meet which
the committee announced to close We'd
nesday, but which continued until dusk
last night had for Its browning event
the making or d new worlds altitude
record. Ralph tombstone forced a little
Wright roadster" 9,714 feet into the
sky-52s feet higher than any other
heavier than air pilot had been able
to ascend He battled in the bitter
cold with the upper. air currents for
20 minutes to get up until his bnro-
graph would register 10000 feet but his
engine was bulky and refused to so
a foot higher.
Two years a I least will have to elapse
before another such meet will be held
in the United States. Claude Grahame-
White completed the big cup race and
will take back to Great Britain tho
Gordon Bennett trophy, assuring the
i101l contest for that country.
The sturdy young Briton presumably
does not plan to take the cup across
the Atlantic until spring ut least. for
1t became known today that he had
leased II home In fashionable quarter
of New York city for the winter.