Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-30
CURTISS BREAKS
ALL AIR RECORDS
American Aviator Flies from Albany
to New York at Great
Speed.
GOES FIFTY.F0UR MILES HOUR
Excels Anything Ever Before At
tempted in Air Flights.
PAULHANs FEAT Is ECLIPsED
Not Quite So Far But Conditions Are
More Difficult.
d
HE MAKES ONE SHORT STOP
AIiEhts Near POushkeepsie and After
IntermissIOn of One Hour He
Resumes Trip High over
River.
HE MAKES ONE SHORT sTO1

NEW YORK, May 2r-Glenn II. Cur
tbs flew from Albany to New York city
in a naeroplane today, winning the slO-
600 prize offered by the New York World.
H. covered the distance of 1874 miles in
two hours and thirty minutes. and came
to earth as calmly and lightly as a
pigeon. is average sHpeed for the dis
tance-54O6 miles an hour-surpasses
any record ever made by an aeropiane in
long distance flight. and in it's entirety
his feat perhaps eclipses anything man
has attempted in an heavier-than-air
machine.
Tho start was made from Albany at 1903
o'clock this morning under weather condi-
tions as nearly perfect as the most fastid-
ious aviator could demand. One hour and
twenty-three minutes later he had made
hs stopping place near Poughkeepsie where
there was an hours intermission. Resum-
ing his flight at 9:26 he sped southwark
and landed within the boundary Of Man
haitian island at 1875. Only 100 yards north
OF the point on which his craft settled
stretched Spuyten Duyvil creek. separating
Manhattan island from the mainland Had
ne failed to cross this. his flight would
have been in vain. but as he swept over 1t,
the prize was his. Thence to Governors is
land, his task was but whim of triumph.
and the concluding lap of a race already
won.
Excels in Speed.
Paulham's flight from London to Man
chester-1S6 miles-exceeded the Curtiss
feat of today in distance, but not in
speed. and danger The Frenchman's
average was 44.3 miles an hour, and be-
low him lay English meadowland Cur
tiss followed the winding course of. the
historic Hudson, with jutting headland
wooded slopes, and tracherous palisades
ell swung high over the great bridge at
Poughkeepsie. dipped at time with fifty
feet of the rivers broad surface. and
jockeyed like a falcon at the turns.
Only once did hi craft show signs OF
rebellion. This was off storm King, near
eWst Point where at a height of nearly
1000 feet treacherous gust struck his
planes. The machine dropped like a rock
ror forty feet, and tilted periIously. Rut
Curtiss, always cool, kept both his bold
and his seat. and by adriot manipulat,on
OF his levers, brought renewed euuiIib-
rum to his steed.
Curtiss was up before dawn TODAY hest
tart despite favorable weather conditIon,
but with eyes and brain cleared of the coh
"eDs OF sleep, lie went with his mecbanIo
ana handful of spectators to Van Renn-
saeier island. in the Hudson. three miles
south OF Albany, where he was To star
waiting at the river brink was a spec,al
train for Mrs Curtiss and her party who
had not accompanied the aviator 10 tbe
island From the train they could not see
tne actual start but those on the island
witnessed a remarkable scene.
No ManeuverinE.
Curtiss arose from the ground like q
rocket. There We're no preliminary manar-