Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-12-27
HOXSEY SCARS
TWO MILES
HIGH
WORLD ALTITUDE RECORD
BROKEN AIT Los ANGELES
Daring Aviator Accomplishes
Remarkable Feat in Forty
Mile Gale; Suffered From In
tense Cold Above the Clouds.
IBy Morning journal Special leased wir

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| IBy Morning journal Special Leased wireI
Aviation Field. Los Angeles, Dec.
26.--seventy-fiv thousand people saw
Arch Hoxsey. the Pasadena, Cal, avia-
tor, break the worlds record for alti-
tude here today. He scared more than
two miles up into the sky---to be ex-
act, his barograph registered height
OF ll,474 feet, or nearly thousand
feet above the altitude of 10,499 feet
recently attained by lie Gagneux at
| Pau, France. This is the second time
the existing worlds altitude record has
| been broken In Los Angeles, the first
time being last January when Louis
Paulhan rose n little over 1000 feet.
Hoxsey accomplished his feat In a
| gale of forty miles an hour, that
wrecked Hubert Latham's Antoinette
monoplane, and kept more cautious
| aviators on the ground.
Hoxsey sailed into the sky at |
O'Clock At 2;45 his barograph show
ed the greatest height, as he scared
over Venice, a scashore resort. more
than twenty miles from the field.
| Coming down, he made series OF
thrilling spiral glides while thousands
of feet in the air. Before he came
lightly to earth, the crowd was on
its feet cheering. He was lifted from
his biplane by fellow ayiators, who
paraded up and down before tho
grand stand bearing the intrepid
flier upon their shoulders.
The crowds insisted on making n
hero of Hoxsey They did not give
him time to doff his furs, but marched
him back and forth before the grand
stand.
Was 1t windy up there" he was
asked.
1T blew so hard" replied Hoxsey.
that my machine hardly moved and
barely held its own. 1t was 50 blamed
cold that more than once / thought
my carburator was about to freeze.
II made the record because de-
termined TO keep on going up until /
passed lie iaxRenx's record, or the
curburafor did freeze"
The gale which Hoxsey and his
brethren OF the Wright camp, Par
malice and Brooklns. brayed success
fully. wrecked Latham's beautiful An
toinette machine completely. The
t'renchman was among the first of
the aviators who answered the start
ing gun at | o'clock. For two hours
wind which blew directly off the
ocean, six miles from the aviation
field. Then an adverse current
slapped his monoplane downward.
hurled II into a fence under the brow
of a huh and threw the aviator into
gully.
The Frenchman was unhurt, but
his machine was tangled mass of
wire and sillSen fabric. The motor was
the only part left intact, and Latham
declared that having enough parts for
three extra machines he would build
a new monoplane and be in the air
before the end of the meet
Parmalee driver of the Baby"
Wright. also dared the wind and at
tanned an altitude of 6,625 feet. He
electrified the crowd by series of
Brookins, originator of the spiral
glide. went up. AT this time the wind
had attained velocity of forty miles
an hour, but the Wright man went
through performances apparently
With as much ease as on the calmest
lay.
Telegraph certifications of the
reading of Hoxsey's record
hight were sent to Clifford b. Har-
non and J. *. Duffy, the president
md secretary OF the National Feder-
ltlon OF Aero Clubs OF America.
While the wreck CT his Antoinette
ieroplane was being carried back to
his hangar tonight, Latham, talked
If the fall which might easily have
'aused him death.
when the gale started IL held my
machine almost motionless on every
reach Then / decided 20
'ome down, and found / could not.
There was nothing for me TO do but
ly about until a lull would permit
ne safely TO descend. | had been
Waiting for the lull more than two
lours when my motor failed to act
and when a gust struck me
lost control The monoplane DASH
a down under the fiii and struck the
ence. 1 tumbled. out, of course, but
vas not hurt and was examing the
'rock when my mechanicans appear
d."
Samuel Perkins gave his first ex-
ibition with his man carrying kites.
Ie suspended stool on the cable
18th kites, and drawing himself up
18th TICKLE observed the aeroplane
lanouvers from height OF about
? d eel