The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-12-27
HOXSEY ASCENDS
ELEVEN THOUSAND
FEET, THE RECORD
Goes Up in a Wright Bi.plane,
While 40 Mile Gale
Blows.
Great Crowd at Los Angeles
Witnesses Feat.
LATHATs MACHINE WRECKED.

Aviation Field. Los Angeles. Cal,
Dec. 27.--Seyents five thousand peo-
pie saw Arch Hoxsey of the Wright
team Of ayiators broke the worlds
record for altitude here. He SCARED
more than two mAes up into the sky,
his barograph registering 11.474
feet above the altibude OF 10, 4O9 feet
recently attained by Legagneux at
Pau, France. This Is the second time
the existing wonlds altitude record
has been broken Ia Los Angeles, the
first time being last January, when
Louis Paulhan rose little over 1000
feet
Hoxsey accomplished his feat In a
40 mile gale that wrecked Hubert
Latham's Antoinette monoplane and
kept more cautious aviators on the
ground.
Hoxsey sailed into the sky at 1
O'Clock. At 2:45 his barograph
showed the greatest height while he
SCARED over Venice. sea shore re-
sort, more than 20 miles from the
aviation field.
Coming down, he made a series of
thrilling spiral glides while thous-
ands of feet in the air. Before he
came lightly to earth, the crowd was
on its feet cheering. He was lifted
from his btplane by fellow aviators,
who paraded up and down before the
grandstand bearing the intrepid flyer
upou their should srs.
Aviator Wa Determined.
The crowds in sted on making a
hero of HoSsey an did not give him
time to dof lis ia $. but marched
him back and forth before the grand
stand.
Was it windy up there?" he was
asked.
1T blew so hard" replied Hoxsey.
that my machine hardly moved and
barely held its own. IL was so cold
that more than once | thought my
carburetor was about to freeze.
made the record because / deter
mined TO keep on going until L
passed Legagneux's record or until
the carburetor froze."
The gale which Hoxsey and his
brethren of the Wright camp, Par
malice and Brooklns. braved success
fully. wrecked Latham's beautiful
Antoinette machine completely. The
fnchman was among the aviators
40 answered the starting gun at 1
O'Clock. For two hours and fifteen
minutes he fought the wind. which
blew directly of the ocean, six miles
from the aviation field. Then an adj
verse current slapped his aeroplane
downward. hurled IL into a fence
under the brow Of hill and threw
the aviator into gulleyt
Frenchman Was Unhurt.
The Frenchman was unhurt, but
his machine was a tangled mass of
wire and silken fabric. The motor
was the only part left intact, and
Latham declared that, having enough
parts for three extra machines. he
would build a new monoplane and be
In the air again before the end of the
meet.
Parmalee. driver of the Baby"
Wright. also dared the wind and at
tanned an altitude of 6,625 feet. He
electrified the crowd by a series of
whirling dips. and then Walter
Brookins, originator OF the spiral
glide, went up At this time the
wind had attained n velocity of 40
miles an hour. but Wright men went
through spectacular performances,
apparently with as much ease as on
the calmest day.
Telegraph civilizations of the
barograph reading OF Hoxsey's record
flight were sent to Clifford II. Har-
mon and ]. X. Duny, the president
and secretary of the National FEEDER
alton Of Aero Clubs of America.