Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-25

New York. oct. 24-The third day
OF the international aviation meet az
Belmont Park. LII, made up for all the
damp. cold and disappointment of the
FIRST two days. A new American rec
ord for altitude was set down to the
credit OF ]. Armstrong Drexel and
the competition in the other events
was at all times a thing of delight full
Of zest action and beauty. The air
fairly hummed with the buzz of the
dipping. dancing craft and their in
Cessant evolutions were so swift and
intricate that the specta tors could not
follow them and even the official scor-
o., prompted from the judges stand
bv the tabulators and timekeepers,
laEsed behind.
Drexel Scars 7,1o5 Feet.
DrexeI scared for altitude in his
record flight at Just $40 D. M, five
minutes before the second hourly alti
rude contest closed. In great, lazy
circles lie crept into the wind, point
3ng higher ana higher in the glare of
the setting sun, TO a height OF 7,10o
feet. Beneath his three busy biplanes
were scattering about the track, rae
ing for place in the grand speed event
lie planed above them. so high that
in perspective he seemed almost i'm
mobile against the blue.
HolIander Holds the Worlds Altitude
Record.
The best previous American record
was 6.1T5 feet, made by Walter Brook
FMS at Atlantic City. The worlds al
ttude record is 9,1s6 feet. held by
Henry Wynmalen, a Hollander.
5rookins Up in Baby Wright.
Walter Brookins also went up for
e'titude in %0aby" Wright biplane-
G. machine precisely like the new head
less Tiers that the Wrights brought
uut this summer. but with a sharp up
ward cast TO the planes. thereby en-
RDlinR the aviator to point up more
sharply and climb faster. This ma
chine was taken by everybody for the
new Wright single surface machine
because Of Its fine drawn lines and
smaller planes and it was not until
. Hightfall that Wilbur Wright admit
ted that the real racer was still on its
way from Dayton. O.. and was not ex-
pected here until tomorrow.
His Engine Stopped Dead.
I5rookins went up 4Ss2 fset. accord
ing TO the barograph, and won the
second altitude hOnors for the day. At
the apex OF his climb his engine, which
had given him some trouble before,
Ftopped dead. with both the propellers
pointing straight up into the air. so
that in gliding to the earth with no
power on, they Afforded him the least
assistance IN breaking the rush of his
descent
He came down Nhizzing, about a
snile and a half off the course. and
struck with bump which broke his
forward landing skid. The damage
'wss Insignificant, however, and he was
not hurt In the least.
Filler Models Never Before Seen Here.
Next to the performance OF Drexel
fhe crowd took most enjoyment IN
the appearance OF models never seen
sn America before. These debutantes
OF the air curtseyed to the grandstand
before crossing the starting line and
went OF on their first round of the
course. They were the new Wright
climber used by Brookins in his alti-
tude flight; tiny Demoiselle, called
the humnins-bird Of aeroplanes, but
At looks more like butterfly; and a
GyinE fish Anto3nette
Ten Machines AIoft at Once.
In ali there were ten machines aloft
at once. all in spirited rivalry. Amer
leans had never seen anything like 1T
and exclemations Of admiration and
bswflderment were on every hand, but
the more blaze followers Of the sport
said that in the first international
meet at Rheims there had been II in
tho air at once.
Latham. whose name has been as
societed so closely with the develop
gnent OF the Antoinette. piloted the
ricklish craft. He sat we'll back in the
sharp stem, shaped like the stem of a
epeed launch, with which It cuts the