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plane from New York to Philadelphia
and return. winning $4,000 prize: time.
New York to Philadelphia, S6 miles. l
hour 81 minutes; Philadelphia to New
York. hour 36 minutes
H. Walter S. Brookins made new worlds
altitude record by ascending 4.so0 feet
at indianapolis.
p. Count Zeppelin's dirigible Deutschland
sailed 300 miles from Friedrichshaven
to Dusseldorf. carrying II passengers.
a. Zeppelin's airship Deutschland made
an excursion trip. carrying % passen-
gers.
2 Clifford B. Harmon broke the Ameri-
can amateur long flight record this
own by remaining In the air hours
Big minutes at Mineola.
8. Second International aviation meet
opened at Rheims, France. Aviator
Wachter killed by the fall Of his ma
chine.
g. Walter K. Erookins flew 6.276 feet up
in the air at Atlantic City.
II. Capt. c. S. Rolls. English aviator.
killed at Bournemouth in a Wright b.
plane.
10. Radley. an English aviator. broke the
worlds speed flight record by flying
mile in Al 2-5 seconds.
H. C. F. Willard carried three passengers
on quarter mile biplane trip at Gar
den City, beating the worlds record
on the number of passengers.
81. Glenn H. Curtiss made an over water
record by flying 60 miles over Lake
Erie in hour Is minutes. an average
Of 46.l miles an hour
SEPTEMBER.
H. 10 balloons started from Indianapolis
in an American championship race.
Balloon America II. landed near War
renton. Va. after a flight Of ~ hours
49, Weymann. an American. and George
Chavez, Peruvian. attempted TO fiy
over the Alps. Chavez succeeded. but
was MORALLY hurt in landing
49, Walter S. Brookins broke the cross
country distance record by flying from
Chicago to Springfield. 1856 miles. win
ming $4,000 prize.
l. Aviator Wynmalen made worlds
record for height by ascending G.l6e
feet at Mourmelon. France.
l5 Wellman's balloon America started or
its oversee flight at Atlantic City.
H. 10 balloons. representing four nations.
started from St. Louis in the interna-
tional race for the Bennett cup and
$4,750 in prizes.
The dirig'be balloon Clement Bayard.
carrying people. sailed from Paris to
London In hours,
10. Wellman abandoned his airship 3GO
miles off Hatteras after sailing about
$40 miles in 70 hours: farthest eastern
point reached was lao miles northeast
of Nantucket.
10. Balloon America H., Post and Hawley
aeronauts. landed in the province OF
Quebec, 1855 miles from st. Louis. win
ming the Bennett cup for distance.
g. The international aviation meet open
ed at Belmont park. New York.
rs. Ralph tombstone broke the American
aeroplane record for flight by ascend
ing 1903 feet at Belmont park. beating
j. Armstrong Drexel's record Of 7.loS.
q. Ralph tombstone assembled 1900 feet in
on aerorlane at Belmont park. CThe
worlds record was 9.lS6)
q Claude Grahame- White won the speed
race at Belmont park: time for 62.l
miles. 81 minutes IA seconds
30. j. B. Moisant won the race from Bel
mont park to the statue Of Liberty
and return. covering 81 miles In "a
minutes 34.S4 seconds.
81. Ralph tombstone ascended 9.nl feet at
Belmont park establishing a worlds
record for altitude.
NOVEMBER
IA. Eugene 3. Ely in the Curtiss biplane
Hudson Filler flew from the deck Of
the United States cruiser Birmingham.
in Hampton Roads. to Willoughby
beach. miles distant.
II. Ralph tombstone. the aviator. killed by
the fall Of his biplane at Denver: aged
80
g. ]. Armstrong Drexel assembled 1881
feet in a monoplane at Philadelphia,
breaking the worlds record.
DECEMBER.
D. Legagneux. French aviator. scared TO-.
498 feet at Pau. making q new worlds
record for altitude.
TO- Capt Belanger. French army aviator.
broke the worlds speed record by max
ing an average of over Sc miles an hour
In 100 mile fight from Vincennes to
MOurmelon.