The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-27
Aviator Reaches Height of 11,474 Feet in His Flight
 At Los Angeles
FLIES IN FACE OF WIND
 BLOWING ALMOST A GALE
HoNey Goes Up so High That His Car- burctcr Almost Freezes and C~meS Down in Swift and Thrill-
 ing Glides

Aviation Field, Los Angeles, Cal, De- cenber 26.-Seventy- thousand people saw Arch Hoxsey of the Wright team of aviators break the worlds record for al- titude here today. He scared more than registering 11.474 feet. or almost 1000 feet above the altitude of 499 feet recently attained by Legagneux at Pau. France. This Is the second time the existing worlds altitude record has been broken In Los Angeles. the first time being last January when Louis Paulhan rose lit- tie over 4OOO feet
 Hoxsey accomplished his feat In 49- mile gale that wrecked Hubert Latham's Antionette monoplane and kept more eau tious aviators on the ground
 Hoxsey sailed Into the sky at 1 o'clock. At 245 his barograph showed the great est height while he scared over Venice, a seashore resort more than 20 miles from the aviation field. Coming down. he made a series of thrilling spiral glides while thousands of feet in the air. Before he came lightly to earth, the crowd was on its feet cheering. He was lifted from his biplane by fellow aviators. who paraded up and down before the grandstand bearing the intrepid flier upon their shoulders.
 Hoxey Becomes q Hero
 The crowds insisted on making hero of Hoxsey and did not give him time to doff his furs. but marched him back and forth before the grandstand
 Was 1t windy up there?" he was asked. Ut blew so hard" replied Hoxsey. that my machine hardly moved and barely held its own. It was so cold that more than once thought my carbureter was about to freeze. made the record because I determined to keep on going until I passed Legagneux's record or un- til the carbureter froze.''
 The gale, which Hoxsey and his breth- ren of the Wright camp, Parmelee and Brooxins, braved successfully, wrecked Latham's beautiful Antoinette machine completely. The Frenchman was among tho aviators who answered the starting gull at 1 o'clock. For two hours and 15 minutes he fought the wind which blew directly off the ocean, six miles from the aviation field. Then an adverse current slapped his aeroplane downward, hurled it Into a fence under the brow of a hill and threw the aviator Into a gully. The Frenchman was unhurt but his machine was a tangled mass of wire and siken fabric The motor was the only part left intact and Latham declared that having enough parts for three extra ma chimes, he would build a new monoplane and be in the air again before the end of the meeting.
 ParmeIee's Altitude
 Parmelee, driver of the Baby Wright, also dared the wind and attained an all titude of 6625 feet He electrified the crowd by a series of whirling dips and then Walter Brookns, originator of the spiral glide, went up. At this time, tho wind had attained velocity of 40 miles an hour, but Wright men went through spectacular performances apparently with as much ease as on the calmest day.
 Telegraph certifications of the baro- graph reading of Hoxseys record flight were sent to Clifford B. Harmon and J. K. Duffy. the president and secretary of the National Federation of Aero Clubs of America.
 
 gramme Parmelee. in one of the big Wright biplanes, rose for a try at the endurance and altitude prizes. He was followed by Hubert Latham of France in an Antionette monoplane. A 15-mils breeze blowing from the ocean did not seem to bother either aviator
 Eugent Ely of the Curtiss team as- cended at 113 p. m. to contest with Hoxsey and Parmelee in their Wright ma chimes for altitude. He came down when the wind reached 90 miles an hour.
 Later Latham battling against a gale of nearly 40 miles velocity, gave a re- markable exhibition of remaining in the air for nearly two hours.
 The wind tore sightseeing balloon from it's cable. Anchor chains hastily thrown out saved the balloon from being blown away. After breaking it's cable the balloon finally was driven upon one of It's anchors and was exploded. No one was hurt.
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