The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-25
2escIleS an Altitude of More
Than Seven Thousand Feet
i'm Aviation Contests.
BRILLIANT FLIGHTS ARE
MADE BY NEW MODELS
Birdmen of Three Nations Race
in Aeroplanes Around the
Belmont Park Course.

SEW YORK, Oct. 24.-The third day
h the international aviation meet ut
5eln,ont Park, Long lslan5, made UP for
||l The damp, cold anG disappointmcnts
h the first two Gays, A 1ew Anne ricau
[ccrd for altitude was set DOM H. the
redft of J, Armstrong Drexel and the
<f,reiiton In other events was at all
Ines iull Of Zest.
DreAul SCARED fcr altitude In his record
Iighf Ill 3:40 T, IN, five minutes before
he second hourly altitude contest closed.
q great circles he cr"pt into the wind,
0iut,bg higher ana higher into the glare
4 The setting sun 10 a height OF 7l05 feet
Ie pleneJ above the crowd like hawk
<archnG tho moors. so high that lie
12sned almost lmmob!'e against tho blue.
HIS descent was swift, and he landed
&fely IN The middle of th. tieIG. There
pproached. II he had not established. a
Nv record, but no figures We're availahle
nth his barograph had been unsealed
nd Che rating OF the stylograph On the
|eet Of it had been examined.
The instrument shows both the heisht
1d The time at which the flight was made
he reading was remarkably sharp and
1owed clearly that he had risen 1lO5
ut The best previous American rec
~ WAS 6li5 feet. made by Walter
|onkIns at Atlantic City, and DmxeIs
<n bcst record. made last summer in
|rpat Britain, G750 feet. was al the time
W9rlds record.
Tie worlds altitude record now is
|S6 fses, he'd by Henry Wynmalen, Hyl-
May Not Get Honors.
There was some confusion as 10 just
|het honors DreNel was entitled 20 fer
, Splendid performance today. He had
zen five minutes before the sccord hour
a altiude flights closed and he was
a entered In tho grand altitude event.
|rc0rding 10 the rules. "the measure
|tnt OF attitudes will cease TO be made
1ch his full height until long after the
|ur had closed
Walter Brookins also went up for al
|'ule In baby" Wright biplane. a ma
0|He precisely like the new headlcss
|ers that the Wrighss brought OUT this
inner. but with a sharper upward slant
n the planes. thereby snabling the avia
a to point up more sharply and climb
Brpokns went UP 1882 feet according
The Paragraph, and won second alti-
de honors for the day. AT the apex
his climb. his engine. which had given
. some trouble before, stopped dead,
[h both propeliers pointing straight UP
70 the air so tnat III gliding to earth
|'th no power on they afforded him the
nss assistance in breaking the rush of
3 Descent He came down whiZZirg,
out mile and q hall off the course.
ID struck with n bump that broke his
rvard landing skid. The damage was
|slgnificant, however, and he was not
1rt In the least.
Late Models Of Aeroplanes.
Next to the performance Of DreScl.
'e crowd took most enjoyment in the
rpearance OF models never seen in
light climber, used by Brookins In his
|4fude flight: tiny demoiselle. called the
mining bird OF aeroplaues, but IL looks
Vre like a butterfly. and flying fish
Ifoipetta, In all there were ten mn
ines aloft at once.
latham pilo;ed the Antoinette. lie sat
~ back III the small stem. shaped like
~ stem Of a speed launch. with which
cufs the air, and the two wheels, with
|ich he controls the long, slender wings.
ppld be seen incessantly turning back
|Td and forward under his hands
The craft WAS fast. and IL was par
<parly noticeable that he took the
rns with a precision and daring that
Blrrio, monoplanes. more batlike and
inter. could not attain.
D the straightaways. however. Latham
- not so fast. + w Radlcy, All Eng
nmon in trimmed down Bleriot.
mt by him as " he had been chained
o stump, But Radley had frequent
<!ne trouble and never figured. serious
~ ans Of the contests OF the d3y.
nt-cylinder machine. His sixteen
!nder. 100 horsepower machine. In
|ich he will compete for the Gordon
nnett cup, will not arrive until tomor-
Phis powerful racer L.; supposed 10 be
nf oir~
seyepty-slx credited TO 100 horse
Ecr Blcriot of lie Blanc,
THUS FAR neither OF the 100 horsepower
Hehines owned by the French team has
70 seen in action
nat the new Curtiss and Wright rae
models ran do is n conjecture. They
we been kept close under cover but
us ihr none Of the American machines
te shown themselves IN the same class
~ the foreign monoplancs-
iuerc was one time this afternoon
:en Latham. in an Antoinettc. passed
PriEht machine at the turn and Rad
Followed and passed the AntoiDette
the stretch.
Programme Carried Out.
me programme FOR today went through
inc card and the events called OF
seIoaV becausc Of the gale were post =
sa until later day, not yet named
hourly distance and altitude events
NC FIRST
II armstrong DreSc took first place in
nitlal distance event with 2s laps
1870 miles. In 81 minutes, 80 30 sec.
auprun was second. with - laps
'Shnston, In Wright biplaue. third
IN y laps.
ms same hour, Count de Lesscps
L,e n,erioi. won the houry altitud,
Win an elevation OF 56l5 feet
tn~his was second in his unluCkS
s. In the second hour. Latham, who
'su late- overhauled his competitors
III "ncn time WAS called WAS credit &c
- laps, one less than he had actu.
: ..eue. altoough he had Quit tho