Arizona republican., 1910-10-25
The Achievement of DreIe|
 al International Meet ., - HIS SPECTACULAR CLIMB
Altitude of 7,105 Feet Where His Plane Looked Like a Motionless Hawk In the Evening Sky 9th CT Events of Best Day.

New York, Oct. 24-The third day of the international aviation meeting at Belmont Park made up for all damp, cold and disappointment of the first two days. A new American rec ord for altitude was set down to the credit of J. Armstrong Drexel, and competition in the other events at all times were full of Zest.
 DreXel scared in the altitude record flight at $40 p. m-, five minutes be- fore the second hourly contest closed. In great circles he crept into the wind, pointing higher and higher in- to the glare of the setting sun, to the height of 7,105 feet. His plane above the crowd looked like a hawk, so high that it seemed almost immObile against the blue.
 His descent was swift and he landed safely in the middle of the field. There was an immediate surmise that he had approached if he had not es- tablished a new record, but no figures were available until his barograph had been unsealed and the reading of the stylograph sheet inside examined. The instrument shows both the height and the time in which the flight was made The reading was remarkably sharp and showed clearly that he had risen 7,1O5 feet
 The best previous American record was 6,175 feet made by Brookins at Atlantic City. Drexers own best record last summer in Great Britain was 6,750 feet, at that time the worlds record The worlds altitude record is now 9,1S6 feet, held by Henry Wynmalen. the Hollander.
 Walter Brookins also went for all titude in a baby Wright bi-plane, a machine precisely like the new headless flyers that the Wrights brought out this summer but with a sharper upward slant to the planes, thereby enabling the aviator to point up more sharply and climb faster.
 Brookins went up 1882 feet, accord ing to the barograph and won the second altitude honors of the day. At the apex climb, his engine, which has given some trouble before, stopped dead with both propellers pointing straight into the air so that gliding to the earth with no power on, he struck with a bump that broke the forward landing skid. He was not hurt in the least. The next perfor- nance was Drexel's.
 The crowd took the most enjoyment in the appearance of models never seen in America before, the new Wright climber. used by Brooklin in his altitude flight; a tiny Demoisselle built like a humming bird or butter fly, and the flying fish, Antoinette. In all there were ten machines aloft at once. Latham piloted the Antoin- ette. He sat well back of the two wheels with which he controlled the wings which necessarily turned back ward and forward under his hands. He took the air with precision. In the straight Latham was not so fast.
 A Bleriot was trimmed down and rapidly passed the Antoinette. driven by Radley, an Englishman, who had frequent engine trouble, and never figured seriously in any of the con- tests of the day. Latham was flying a fifty horse power, eight cylinder machine.
 A sixteen cylinder, one hundred horse power machine will compete for the Gordon Bennett cup. but will
  powerful racer is supposed to be capable of seventy miles an hour against seventy-six credited to the one hundred horse power Bleriot of LeBlanc Thus far neither of the one hundred horse power machines owned by the French team have been seen in action.
 What the Curtis and Wright racing models can do is conjecture. They have been kept close under cover. but thus far none of the American mach ines have shown themselves to be in the same class with the foreign mono- planes.
 At one time this afternoon when Latham, in the Antoinette, passed a Wright machine, in turn, Radley fol- lowed and passed the Antoinette on the stretch.