The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-10
Daring Aviator Had Reached
a Height of 6,175 Feet and
Was Still Climbing When
Engines Missed Explosions.
READY TO COLLAPSE
UPON REACHING EARTH
Compelled to Make a GircIing
Glide 10 Save Himself From
Falling Into Sea-SpeCta-
tors Thought Il Fancy Work,
RECORDS BROKEN ABROAD

A TLANTIC CITY, N. T., July g.
n Walter Brookin3 in a Wright BIZ
plane broke the worlds altitude rec
ord here this evening when he attained
a height Of 6,175 feet. BE used his
last drop Of gasoline at his highest al
titude and was still climbing when his
engines missed explosions. The svia-
tor brought his machine back to level
20 get the last drop Of fuel out Of the
storage tank TO reach the line Of vision
OF engineers on the beach.
Reaching the imaginary line. Brook
ins started TO glide TO earth and his
engine stopped entirely when he was
$500 ret and stiu over the ocean. His
circling glide TO the beach. which the
crowd believed 70 be a Bit u fancy fly
ing. was done TO save himself from
diving into the sea.
Brookins was ready 20 collapse when
he reached the ground. and did not
tell OF hts plight In the air until mid
night. after he bad partly recovered.
a. the exact height Of the flight from
calculations Of engineering experts
Tho Paragraph record IS $500 feet.
leaving but % feet difference II Is
expected that the record viii stand
without protest.
~ bis feat today, Brooislns wins the
5000 prize offered by the Atlantic
city Aero club for breaking a worlds
record unless a higher altitude is
reached here before the enc Of the
prcaent week
Brookins spent one hour two min
utcs and 80 15-f00 seconds in the air.
according TO official timing. About So
minutes Of this time was made IN cir
cling ascent. the rush OF over a mile
20 the ground consuming less than
seven minutes
Bethany Plains. Rheims, July s.
Many records have been broken at
HHHH HHa rHHH
week. but the most sensational flights
shave been made by Leon Morane. the
French aviator. who today in a new
100-hOrsepower Bleriot mOnoplanc.
covered five ki1ometers (3.10 miles) in
two minutes and flfty-giX seconds and
ten kllometers I'm five minutes and a.
a Frcnchman. who broke the worlds
record FOR distance. flying 340 kilo-
meters (2tt-1f miles, In a single flight
in four hours. 81 minutes and IS sec
onds.
The most remarkable achievement OF
a remarkable day was that Of Morane.
mile q minute while ten other machines
were In the afr. As compared With
IFS. they seemed 60 be standing still.
Leblanc will use the same type OF
aeroplane IN the Gordon Bennett con-
test and French experts consider that
he has splendid chance TO capture
the trophy, as the speed developed by
Morane today was more than four min
utes under the winning time OF Curtiss
Tor = same distance last year.
Ofoslag reduced the 100 kilometer
(62.2 miles, 70 one hour and eight min
utes. Aubrum IN mouoplane. with
a single passenger covered 135 kilo-
meters (S3.9 milcs1 in 2.09.Q5. Ia Bou-
chere was awarded a special prize Of
$1,000 for breaking OlieslaEer's record
ND 20 the $50 kil0mctcrs. The con-
Etructor's prize Tor the greatest total
IN the distance covered By three ira
chimes Of one design goes to the An
toincffo mouOplauc. which covered p
744 kilometers O,7o6 miles).