The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-30
Yankee Aviator Makes the
Best Flight Ever Known
With a Machine That Is
Heavier Than Atmosphere.
WINS PRIZE OF $4,000
OFFERED BY A NEWSPAPER
Distance of 1877 Miles is Gov
cred at Remarkable Speed
Without the Slightest Mis-
hap During Entire journey.
AMERICAN CHAMPION PILOT

IEW YORK, May 29.-GIenn II.
M Curtiss flew from Albany to New
York I'm an aerOplane today, win
ming the $4,000 prize offered by the
New York World
He covered the 1877 miles ia two
hours and Vhirty-tVyO minutes, and came
to earth as calmly and as lightly rs
a pigeon. Ills average speed TOR the
SiistaEce-54.0G miles hour-Sur-
passes any other record ever made by
an aerOplane IN long distance flight,
and. in its entirety, his feat perhaps
ecIIpEes anything man has attempted
in a heavfer-thnn-air machine
The start was made from Albany at
1903 this morning, under weather con-
tIftionS as near perfect IS the most
fastidiOus aviator could demand. One
hour and tVventy-fhree minutes later
he had made his stopping pace near
POugbkeePsie, where there vas an
hours intermiSsiOn- ResunIinE his
flight Mt 0;26, he sped sOuthward and
landed within the boundary OF Man
haitian island at 1925.
Only 100 yards north of the point
on which his craft settled stretched
Spuytea DuyVII creek, separating Man
haitian island from the mainland. Had
he failed 40 cross this his flight would
have been in vain, but rs he swept
over il the prize was his. Thence L"
Governors island, his task was but
tine concluding lap of a race already
won.
Paulhan's flight from London TO
Mancheste-1S miles-exceeded the
Curtiss feat of today in distance, but
not in speed and danger. The french
mans average was 44-3 miles an hour'
and below him lay English meadow
land Curtiss followed the winding
course of the historic Hudson, with
jutting headlands, wooded slopes and
treacherous palisades. He swung high
over the great bridge at Poughkeepsie,
dipped at times within fifty feet Of
the rivers broad surface and jOckeyed
like n falcon at the turns
Only once did his craft show signs
of rebellion This was off Storm King,
near West Point. when. at height
of nearly 1000 feet, a teacherous gust
struck his planes. The machine
dropped forty feet and tilted perilOusly,
but Curtiss kept his head and by adroit
manipulation restored the equilibrium
of the machine.
Curtiss was Up before dawn today.
hesitant despite favorable weather con-
ditions. But, with eyes and brain
cleared of the cObwebs of sleep, he
went with his mechanician and hand
full of spectators to Van Rensseiaer
island, IN the Hudson, three miles
south of Albany, where he was to start.
Waiting al the river brink was spe-
cial train for Mrs. Curtiss and her
party.
Arises Like Rocket.
From the train they could not see
the actual start, but those on the
island witnessed a remarkable scene.
Curtiss arose from the ground like a
rocket. There were no preliminary
manCuvers; there was no trial flight.
The aerOplane ran hurriedly over the
surface of the land and darted straight
for its goal, turning once for a mo-
ment TO the west, SO that Curtiss
might comply with the terms Of the
competition under which he was fly
Ing. and technically cross the Albany
city line.
When the aeroplane reached a height
estimated at 500 feet. il seemed for
q moment TO hold that level AMI then
to rise higher Curtiss was flying at
a height which he had never at
tempted before in his life In seven
minutes he had been lost to view
When the aerCplane was wheeled
from beneath her canvas coverings
shortly before o'clock the sky was
perfectly clear and what little wind
was stirring blew from the north-a
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