Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-26
ALTITUDE RECORD BROKEN
Drezel Asoends to Height of Seven
Thousand, Hundred and Five Feet.
SWIFT DEsCENl MADE SAFELY
Newest Models % Airships Assembled
In New York 6or international
Meet-French Models Not
seen IN Action.

NEW YORK. oct. 2j-Thc third day Of
tho International aviation meet at BE mont
Park Long Island made up for all the
damp cold. and disappointment Of bic hrst
two days A new American record for al
titide was fes down 20 the credit OF J.
Armstrong urexel ana the competition i'm
other events was at all times fun Of zest.
Drexel scared for altitude ln his record
flight az $40 p. M. five minutes before the
second hourly altitude contest followed. In
great circles he crept into the wind, point
ing higher and higher into the glare Of the
setting sun TO "A height Of I.i@ feet Tie
plancd above the crowd like hawk search
ms. the uoors. so high that I'm prospective
he seemed almost immobile against the
blue
Ills descent was swift but unhurried and
he-Iauded safely in the middle Of the field.
There was immediate surmise that he had
approached n he had not established, a
new record but no figures were available
until Ifs Paragraph had been unsealed and
the reading Of the styograph on the
plotted sheet inside Il examined. The in
strument shows both the height and the
time at which It was made The reading
was remarkably sharp and showed clearly
that he had risen 7.1O5 feet
American Record Broken.
The best previous American record was
6175 feet. made by Walter Brooklns at At
lanuc city and Drexers own best record,
made last summer in Great Britain, was
$3.50 feet. at the time a worlds record. The
yyorld's altitude record Is g1S6 feet, held by
Henry Wynmalen. q Hollander.
There was some confusion as to just
what bonors Drexel was entitled to for his
splendid performance today lie had risen
five minutes before the second hour Tor al
tltude flights closed and he was not en-
tered in the grand altitude event Ac-
cording 90 the rules the measurement OF
altitude will cease to be made at the end
Of the hour"
Drexei did not reach his full height until
long after the hour had closed.
Walter Broolins also went up for alti-
tude record i'm baby" Wright biplane,
q machine precisely like the new headless
filters that the Wrights brought out this
summer but with a sharper upward cant to
the planes. thereby enabling the aviator e
point up more sharply and climb faster.
BrooLins Makes High Flight.
Brookins went up,A Ss2 feet, according e
the Paragraph, and won second altitude
honors for the day. At the apex Of his
climb his engine which had given hin
some trouble before, stopped dead. will
both the propellers pointing straight M
into the air, 80 that In gliding to eartt
with no power on they afforded him the
least assistance in breaking the rush of hii
descent. He came down whiEzing. abOu
mile and a half off the course, ant
struck with bump which broke his for
ward landing skid. The damage was In
significant. however. and he was not hur
In the least,
Next 10 the performances OF Drexel thu
crowd took most enjoyment in the appear
ance Of models never seen in America be
fore THAI w~re the new Wright climbe
nsed by BFooknss 2, his altitude flight.
einy Demolselle called 'he hummingbird o
Aeroplanes. but lokins more like a butter
s9ly, and q flying fish, the AntOnettA Ii
hi there were ten machines aloft at once
AntOinette Rounds Curves Well.
Latham piloted the Antoinette. He "a
well back in the sharp stem, shaped like tn
stem Of a speed launch. with which It cut
che air. and the two wheels with which h
controls the long slender wings could b
seen necessarily turning backward and FOL
ward under his bands, The craft was fas
and It was particularly notable that h
banked the turns with precision and dai
ing that the Bieriot aeroplRnes, more ba
hike and bluntsr could not attain.
In the straightaways, however, Lathar