Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-01
Wilbur WRIGHT
PRAISES B|PLANE
Secured Worlds Altitude Record
And Got GoodIy Share
OF the Honors.
.M|lo MO " MOST PRIZES
Superiority of Either Type Over tho
Other Not Settled at Belmont Park
international Meet.

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New York, Nov. 1.-The question of
superiority between the biplane and
the monoplane, which the promoters
of the Belmont park international meet
hoped to settle III the series of contests
between the best niers OF three coun-
tries, is still an open one, according to
the Aero club officials. The Bleriot
monoplanes, thanks to the work OF
Moisant. the American, and Grahame-
White, the Englishman, took major
ity of the prize money, but the worlds
altitude records and Il goodly share 81
the other honors went to the Wright
biplanes In the sltillful hands of John
stone. Hoxscy and Brookns. Wilbur
Wright expresses himself as satisfied
with the showing Of the bipanes.
Everyone talked monoplane before
the meet began" he said, "but I think
we have demonstrated that the BIZ
plane which got the duration and alti-
tudc prizes, was the machine that had
by far the best control. The backward
flights of Hoxscy and tombstone in a
.5o-mile gale and the sharp turns OF
Hoxsey and Broolsins several thousand
feet in the air showed control.
And the biplane would have had
the prize foi. speed but for Brookinsl
unfortunate accident. We had the fast
est machine. BY our actual tests. 1t
was ut least five miles faster than LIE
iBlanc's. The trouble was that Brook
ms was not experienced enough in its
use. We will soon prove by official
tests at Dayton that the machine he
broke on the day of the race for the
mako at least so miles an hour. We
shall be ready to seek the cup next
year with n machine capable of prob
ably, 20gmiles more than that
1t became known today that the
WrightsS and the French team came
near extending the meet n day or two
on their own account. NJ. Boreal, for
over+to the Wright hangar late yester-t
day with a challenger to- a race between
q 60-horsepower Bleriot and a 3O-horse-
power Wright. Wilbur scribbled his
answer as quick asa flash:
We Will ACCEPT that and race You
But an hour later. NJ Boreal sent
word that his men had declined after
all. a.
ANIAToRs FOLD MACHINES.
The aeroplanes of all types, which
have been giving the spectators at the
Belmont park aviation field many q
thrill the last few days are being
Grated for shipment. The meet which
the committee announced to close We'd
nesday, but which continued until dusk
last night. had for its browning event
the making OF a new worlds altitude
record. Ralph tombstone forced little
Wright roadster 9,71i feet into the
sky-52S feet higher than any other
heavier than air pilot had been able
to ascend. He battled in the bitter
cold with the upper air currents for
20 minutes to. get up until his baro-
graph would register 10000 feet but his .
engine was balky and refused to so
q foot higher.
Two years at least will have to clapse
before another such meet will be held
in tho United States. Claude Grahame-
White completed the big cup race and
will take back to Great Britain the
Gordon Bennett trophy, assuring the
1911 contest for that country.
The sturdy young Briton presumably
loes not plan to take the cup across
the Atlantic until spring at least, for
It became known today that he had
leased n home In fashionable quarter
Of New York city for the winter.