The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-24
DREXEL FLIES UP 9,s77 FEET
NAY NAVE BEEN wren HIGHER.
BIT BtROG RAPH FtIiED.
Finds on \nKhiing That Ink Had Run
Out of Altitude Wecor,if,x Pen Went
~ TIN itshtn-.s 90 AIR Rendered
His Propeller and Planes Ineffective.

Up TIL ftShtnr.> 0f AIR Rendered
His Propeller and Planes lnen scsi>r.
! PHILApELPHIA. Nov ~ J Armstrong
/ prexel disappeared into the clouds from
the aviation field this afternoon. pushed
100 hors.-powrr Bl-rio' mun"plan"
new worlds alltud. record
He hung AZ height of $50 feet in the
mlsts above Amber before starting an
appalling six mil. down slide and landed
thin e-n miles north ~ this city
For thirty minutes before he landed
DrrS-l underwent on. Of the most re-
markable experiences ever recorded even
in tn. annals Of aviation
The official Paragraph of IN" nero club
Of America. sllng ON IN" frame OF his
machine IN plain vt"w. had registered
tho record hr-lNrng height Then he
found that ms prop.'llor had lo-' rs ht'-
ing power OWING 10 the ilshtncss of the
air at that gr-a, altitude
For almost half an hour while out Of
sight nj all creation h" Ioch-yed The
machine IN an effort To- force the waverIng
ne..,il. To tho. Ia ~ foot mark and failed
An examination of "a. instrument
afterward showed that the ink had r'in
out NJ IN. registering needle al IN" 9.p'O
mark and that 'h- aviator possibly has
10 his credit Al ghr of good deal more
than ~ E0 feet upward
DrrNal LEFT the starting ground IN his
try for a new world record al 323 VI
and was IN IN" air an hour an twenty
one mInslteS before the s,iburbani'-> for
miles around the vicinity of his landing
place were startled az IN. sight ut - blg
birdhk- machine coming out Of the Guie'
skies In IN. last stages Of his flight
Dr-ae had lost hi- hearings. He dint
hav. any idea ~ hs whereabouts when
he started ro slide through the clouds
that had hidden the earth from his v'-~
for IN" best par' OF an ho'ir.
Hecrawled on; 81 h.. sea- ~ his machin"
a; IN. end ~ 'he tiigh, sick and shak InG
from IN" effect ~ the strain and as a result
u the speed a. which IN" rn"noplans shot
IN i's sharp Elan' to earth.
lie said afterward that during the first
fortv-Hvs mtnu'cs ~ hIS flight he could
80" roofs ~ ihIs city when occasionally
h. miss c'ea-.d from unde' HIM and
he believes that he cIrclei - a height ~
T.Wp nr $3.50 feet almost directly above
the C.tv Han before northwest wind
caught his machine and blew IL eighteen
miles ON 81 ItS course
He arrived at the INSTRUMENTATION
about SD tonight. still wearing tn. fur
lined aviation clothes which had bean
made especially for the f,sh' Of TODAY
After a -horr resi- and dinner at Ore
land h. said he felt quite him -slf again
Re said thai the flight he mad" would
have been impossible without IN" fur
lined garments III which hs had bundled
himself before starting HIS hands had
gon. numb at last h.- said. but that was
the only way IN which the -xir.m" cold
~ the upper levels bothered him
4 didnr know where | was going
finally h.. said. and | didn ! care a great
deal - long A. ~ sd- Ut | could -" ne
lrtl.' red line 1T th. barograph registering
one thousand feet after another. and
when u got IN seven thousand could
look down through IN" mIsf- ocarasIonally
and 500 n. Citv underneath Then | was
caught IN a cross current and IN" mists
got thicker and after hat. whI'a | felt
was travelling al a pretty good speed
| hadn't IN" least notion NJ what uir'.C-
ton IN. winds were taking IN.
After thar n was hay and iii - UNDER
Meath and then | didn't look At anything
but the Paragraph
i got n To . jOO feet easily enough and
ihenlI found thar the propeller wouldn't
lift any more. Then | started IN long
level -woops with an upward turn at the
end If each and finally drov. her TO he
record a. Won So. u.
i tried hard 80 put At 10 'he l." Oo mark
and whether u was because. The, ink ran
out or whe'har u was because the plane.
had reached the limits Of III pos-IbilIfi.s
cant say
When u began To get darh and ! de-
cIded that ~ Was time to come down
knew nv the look Of the sky that ! was
headed toward tho south when | began
TO come down didn't try It IN III" usual
spirals. bur made a strait hi descent
After descending about 5."S or s.1"
Zee, could s... the fields and houses and
| ste.rsd for the clearing wher. | made
my landing
Earlier Graharn.- Whit. made several
flights in one Of which he was acc ON panied
by Mrs George Quinrard Horwi'z who
was in the air five minutes