New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-11-02
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HIGHEST FLIGHT
Both He and tombstone Break
Altitude Record.
FEAR IN AIR MEANS DEATH.
When the American Millionaire Aviator
Went Up Over Seven Thousand Feet
4 In a Monoplane at Belmont Park.
Describes His Sensations - wfuIIy
Cold AIoft, but Great Sport.

Describes His Sensations - AwfuIIy
Cold AIoft, but Great Sport.
ord was broken there were eighteen
aeroplanes in the air at Belmont park,
New York. sixteen Of them contesting
for prizes and ten Of them at one time
circling the mile and a half course
There were solid, plodding Wright BIZ
planes, wasplike Bleriots, graceful
Antoinette, dainty Demoiselle,
bulky Farman and speedy Curtiss
fiers. The star fier of the day was
j. Armstrong Drexel millionaire avi-
ator, who flies for sport and who broke
the American record for height, later
broken again by another American,
Ralph tombstone. Drexel reached an
altitude of 7,1O5 feet. skimming up
ward until he almost seemed about to
break through the dome Of blue, but
returning finally to earth.
The altitude of Drexel surpasses his
own record made several weeks ago
in England, and also the record made
| by Walter Brookins, who flew 6,175
| feet in Atlantic City last summer. He
| lacked more than 1000 feet Of break
ing the worlds record Of 9,1S6 feet
made by Henry Wynmalen, but he
flew upward so easily and gracefully
the feat looked simple. Rising from
the aerodrome. he circled upward, his
machine growing smaller and smaller
until he looked like q spider crawling
along on the underside Of the tenuous
white clouds that 1ecked the sky, and
1 then he became smaller still, until it
was hard for the eye to follow him.
Still higher he went, and to the
naked eye he seemed fixed in one
place, destined never to descend If
the eyes fell from him for a moment
it took minutes to find him again. It
took him more than twenty-five min
utes to wind his way upward, but
once he pointed the nose of his ma
chine earthward he grew slowly larger,
ing Of his engine became family audi
BILE, and it was evident lack Of fuel
did not force him to fit back to the
aerodrome.
st was cold as the devil up there
he remarked as he crawled slow y out
Of the machine. He rubbed his face
and twirled out his little mustache
with stiff fingers. But" he continued
as he took several steps to warm up,
II will go higher yet. 1t was awfully
cold, and the wind was stiff, but it
was easy. l had no difficulty what
ever. My engine worked superbly, but
as it tended to heel over to the left
had to be on my guard constantly.
Except for this fact, which compelled
me to be on the alert, it was great
sport, but the next time go up am
going to be dressed more warmly.
However, l had good experience, and
hope I may go higher STILL"
DreXel by his altitude record and by
his various other feats in his Bleriot
has been rising rapidly 70 the fore
most of the worlds aviators. In his
flying he shows excellent skill, cool.
ness and resource that equal those OF
such men as Leon Morane, Hubert
Latham and Alfred Leblanc. He is
without fear, for, as he said:
If you think of fear you are dead
man.
of the famous Philadelphia family
who lives in England, where he con
duets an aviation school at Beaulieu
> Shortly before he set off on his record
: breaking whirl to the aerial heights
he had visited his sister-in-law, Mrs
: Marjory Gould Drexel at the grand
stand. Without any ostentation he
ordered his trim little monoplane
brought out on the turf. So far as the
crowd knew the aviator, who stood
!, twirling the ends Of his mustache
simply was off to make an ordinary
hourly altitude record