Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-10-27
Johnstone Flies 1903 Feet md
Comes Down Chilled to
the Bone.
AERIALFLIP FLAPS BY LATHAM
Feril Of the Aviator Was Thought
py the Spectators to BE Som.
ersaults for Their Amuse.
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NE" YORK, Oct 2o.-Thc American al
utude record, that j. Armstrong Drove,
so proudly brought down put ~, III,
''o"us Yesterday afternoon In his Blerio,
'honopalne, was snatched from his
grasp to-day by Ralph Johns,one Il, q,
hcadIess Wright climber Drexol re,cbod
''lo5 feet but tombstone topped him TO-
Gay by 19s feet with a new mark Of eoq
feet He come down chilled to the bona
ana his goggles trimmed with frost nov
halr an hour he had battled with n SNOW
storm above the clouds. seeking stil,
| hiEher levels
Hubert Latham In an Antoinette r,,oro-
plane. frightened the crowd whom he ho-
gan to do aerial flip flaps under the ea,,o
| Of nasty looking storm cloud bo1f q
mile up In the air. He riyh,od ord
| then shot to earth in one steep rpshirc
| swoop. The edges OF a tree brushed b,.
! descent. and punctured one of his yir,,
surfaces, but he landed in a potato march
with only minor injuries to his machine
and none 10 himself,
When the meet began to-day with tho
hourly competition for distance. C;ra-
hame- White and Latham were the only
competitors. Then engine trouble forced
Grahane- White s Farman hiplano off tho
field. and It looked as If Latham in HE
Antoinette would have the event 20 him
self. But White was not TO We caught
mapping. He saw that the scantiest score
I whatsoever would bring him second
place. and late In the hour tinlScred un
mis- colicky engine to last two rounds and
TOOK down the easiest hundred dollars
of the tournament
DE LESSEPS BEATS WRIGHT PAIR
1ioxscy and tombstone both went IN for
aItltude. tombstone forge. he was with
"u' Paragraph. the instrument which
records height. and when ne came down
from the upper levels he had nothing to
SHOW Tor ms effort and was left unplaCed
count dc l"sseps pointed upward much
later than the two Wright pupils but
caught them both and, soaring above
them, brought down the prize for the
first hour
The second hourly distance event
was pursuit race. Grahame- Whites
f'arman was unreliable and he again
took II of the field for repairs and
brought out his fast Bleriot mono
plane. In it he gained steadily on
McCurdy in a Curtiss bplane but the
latter finished first with lap to tho
good 1t turned out. however. ina.
McCurdy had fouled two pylons ana
the forfeit cost him FIRST place.
Meantime HoXsey and tombstone had
gone up for altitude again. accom-
panied this time by Latham, n late
starter In his Antoinette. The wind
had ranged steadily all afternoon at
between eight to ~ miles an hour
but now angry looking clouds began
10 bank up in the north and soon
there was a patter OF rain The An
toinette was soaring right at the edge
OF a particularly black cloud: Hoxsey,
right over the center of the field. SEEM
ed the higher though. and tombstone,
far out beyond the back of the grand
stand weaving in and out among the
clouds. now half hidden in mist, now
lost completely. and again glintinB
bright in the sunlight.
Suddenly the Antoinette began to caper
Ike & buck and wing dancer. The spec
tators thought Latham was doing sorer
saults to please them. Blu. he was not
He was in very real peril! He had stare
ID to come dowr Wrcr he felt the rain
and had been caught in a wind flaw
Tossed to ono side anG then the other.
first up and then down, he tilted his
planes ana shot down with swopp a,
swift as any falcon's. IN matter OF
seconds he he'd uc"utlntei safely the
half mile between him ard the earth and
was hidden behind clunp of tree1. with
nothing worse than punctured wing
and broken skid.