The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-11-01

New York, Oct. 81 Ralph
Johnstone, of Kansas City, who
used to ride high wheel bicycle
down long fight Of steps at the
Hippodrome in earlier days, but
who has been flying Wright BIZ
plane for the Wright Brothers since
the late spring, to-day brought the
international aviation meet at Bel
mont Park to a close by breaking
the worlds record for aeroplane al
/ titude.
Johnstone climbed to a height of
I97l4 feet, or 528 feet higher than
an aeroplane ever has been before.
Previous to to-day the worlds
record for altitude in an aeroplane
was 9,1S6 feet. It was made at
AIourmelon lie Grand, France. two
months ago to-day, by Henri Wyn-
malen, a Dutch tiier. who. 'ike
/ Johnstone, also flies biplane John
stone was in the air about cne hour
and a half. but all except the last
! lew hundred t6et OF his climb was
,,,,d. d,,r;,,or ~; ST.. H.,
III 'i'~
air.
DISAPpIs A. -WoM VIZ
For the ars- 4me in the history of axia- !
4 ton, America saw an aeropl4He abso-
l1tely disappear fr0m view IN "a cloudless
zenith. And besides I'll these .arsts''
here listed the item should not be over
looked that Johnstone made the climb
straight I'D of more than a mile and
three-quarlers ia machine which he
not only had never foNn before but NJ
a type radically different in speed. su
face area. and voInIsring eharaererietfcs
from ann, aeroniera t.. a,,.r t..so-- 1,...5
driven
/ ~
''iiS'oiie N'9 iosl Z" We" III
'he 'leaL Hiue OF lle autumn SKY over the
center OF the neld j. Armstrong DraXel
I climbed into the air bill0Ws in a mono
plane. 50-hOrsepower Bleriot. 20 talk.
the grand altitude Of me meet ,,..,,
from, Jobnstone T,ravsl ss..r,7s,5 ,.l-,
.,,-,,, -. -, 7..Ir -,'-
''-'-I .,'i, d --'i-'. ou' VIZ" iie -ad
'' -''s''' O4 900 -Vr| o- so IeeI
'esa man J"-lllStohe lie" last ihufscay
ana l,Sil feet lower than JohnstoHe's
record climb. an attack Of sickness and
the extreme cold told Drexel he had had
enough. and he came down. Rasides.
he had a dinner engagement at -Sherry's.
Prizes are Announced.
Claude Grahame-White, Of the English
team, few faster than a mile a minute
in his 100-horsepower Bleriot I'm q special
speed event Of to-day. and thereby won
a purse of $500 for the event He also
had a miraculous escape from death
Following are the statistics Of the flights
at Belmont park. which were oor,rflsl
tonight:
The totaIization OF duration. awarded
to the aviators who Remained in the cir
the greatest period OF time I'm rbe v,hoIa
meeting. resulted as follows.
Hoxsey. 7:23.1Sa
Johnstone. 4:47.H40
Grahame- White. 4.3T.05.S5.
Latham. 4:1l:2l2e
The totalizataion of distance. awarded
10 the aviators who covered the greatest
distance, adding the distances made BY
them IN the hourly contests Of each day,
was won by these aViators.
Grahame-Whlte, lt5 laps
Latham 1908 laps.
aunfuh' - lAps
lhe louF prlzes Tor the totanzation OF
uuI non are So,VH. >1'''' A'0o, and S5y'.
% 'ie '.',e.i~" -, 80 ..on oi distance the
P''N7S arr 9-''''' @l'''' aHc $'t"
Airmen Are Aroused.
Grahame-W Whites spill was followed by
an incident Which reused the anger Of
many ol the aTInen ana some OF the
oihciais ol the aero OIuh VINO witnessed
IL
\ special programme and special prizes
were provided by the aviation committee
for to-day which was outside OF the
official meet.
race, the course being over the 2.500 me