The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-30

on III cas- thFre should come up bLpW
while Mars j. doing the spiral glide
from high attitudes. Lewis broke
rear axle of his automobile in turning
around and everybody GOT ont to
watch him fix it. This occasioned some
delay. but Lewis worked himself out Of
breath and before long the aviators
were en- flight for the Pail.
Air Garages Wanted.
When Wilbur Wright started to mon
key with machine birds some seven orr
eight years ago he could flop over the
ground like a highly elated rooster, and
when he got 50 he could fit about in
the air. he thought he had realized
the dream of centuries. and SO he had.
but it is still that Hopping against the
earth IN the getaway and the ahghting
that presents the most serious problem.
If the machines could be garaged IN
the air and have elevators 10 connect
up with them. it would be a1l right,
and everybody might realize the dreams
of centuries.
In 1895 q German engineer by the
name of Otto Lilienthal succeeded in
sailing through the air by means of a
glider which he built and he was killed
by falling from his wings. He was the
first martyr TO aviation.
On December Il. 1908, Wilbur Wright
succeeded IN flying So feet in a bi
plane of his own construction. This is
the first biplane flight of record. He
accomplished the then marvellous feat
at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. in %
seconds.
On October % of this year Maurice
Tabuteau covered distance of $50
miles in continuous flight in Farman
biplane. This feat, however. has been
surpassed carrying passenger. On
the seventeenth and the eighteenth of
the same month Henry Wynmalen, the
Dutch aviator, flew from Paris to
Brussels and back with a passenger.
The distance is about 800 miles and
the flight was made in fifteen hours,
thirty eight minutes and twenty eight
seconds The aviator who accomplished
this feat received a prize of $4,000
from the municipal council of Paris.
In March. 1908, Leon Delagrange
took the first passenger up in biplane
Henry Farman accompanied the avia-
tor for a four hundred foot flight
which was accomplished in three sec
onds
The first woman to fly was Mile.
Therese Pieter She went Up with De
lagrange at Turin, Italy, on July 5,
1908, and then flew a distance of five
hundred feet.
On April 80 of this year Roger Sum
ner took up the record number of pas
sengers Three men and one woman
accompanied him on high near Mour-
melon. France. The combined weight
of this human freight was just forty
pounds less than the We ght of the bl-
plane. and the party stayed up five
minutes.
Lieutenant Fequant made the best
speed record for long distance flight
with passengers1 He took two men
along and flew from Chalons to Vim
cennes. a distance of one hundred and
five miles and half in two hours and
a half.
Grahame-White holds the sustained
speed record of sixty-two and one-tenth
miles in sixty-one minutes, four and
three ne-hundredth seconds. This was
when he won the Gordon-Bennett cup
His average speed was sixty and eight
one-hundredths miles an hour.
Aviator Hamilton has beaten this
speed over a f0Ir mile course. He made
the distance on the second OF THIS
month in three minutes and one second,
making his average speed seventy-nlne
and two-tenths miles an hour.
LIE Blanc made an average speed OF
sixtv-six and half miles an hour over
y circuitous course. The first lap was
done AT a rate of seventy miles an hour.
The distance travelled. in nineteen laps
was fftv-nine and thirty seven one
hundredths miles, and the elapsed time
was fftv-two minutes, fortv-nlne ana
three one-hundredths seconds
John Moisant. the Chicago aviator,
made the record crosscountry speed at
the Belmont Park aviation meet last
October He went from the park near
Nineola fair grounds over the borough
of Brooklyn, city Of New York, cross
ING the inner bay of New York harbor,
encircled the Statue of Liberty on Bed
lows Island and returned to Belmont
Dark, ~ Niaeola. The distance record
ed was thirtvfour miles and Molsant
covered It i'm thirty-four minutes and
weight seconds
Two wears ago Wilbur Wright made
the altitude record Of three hundred
and sixty feet This was accomplished
at Auvours. France, in sixty mile
flight on December Is 1905. Ralph
Johnstone. who was recently killed in
fall went up 9714 feet at the Bel
mont Park meet and this record was
! Just beaten by Hoxsey. who reached an
altitude of II ,494 feet at Los Angeles
on Monday of this week. 1t took Ralph
tombstone ninety minutes to reach an
altitude of 97l4 feet. and he came
down in ten minutes. His engine went
dead and he coasted down the air. in
manner termed volplaning in the aero
nautical vocabulary. at the rate of two
hundred miles an hour.