The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-24
An Altitude Ot 997O Feet
 Reached in Flight
MACHINE BALKs HIGH UP
Make His AeropIane Go Higher Because the Air Was Too
 Rarefed

Philadelphia, November 23.-J. Arm
 tude records here today when he climbed
 above this city until his Bleriot mono- plone was unable to make further prog
 ress in the rarefied atmosphere. The ink in the needle of his paragraph ran out
 at 9970 feet, which was accepted as a
 new worlds record tonight by Clifford B Harmon, chairman of the National
 Associated Aero clubs of America, and
 James King Duffy, the secretary of that
 body
 The instrument is the same one which | Johnstone carried when he made a form
 CT record of 9714 feet at Belmont park
 on October 31. It was brought to this
 city under seal by MT. Duffy in order that the record made would be official | MT. Drexel left the aviation field at
 Point Breeze in the extreme southern part of the city at BPS o'clock. He land ed at Oreland, about 20 miles north of the spot where he started at 4:46 o'clock.
 In his climb he travelled at least 30 miles to the northward for when he started to descend, after trying for 15 minutes to force the machine higher, he glided
 down for distance which he estimated | tonight at about six miles, So swift did the monoplane descend that the aviator was nauseated However, he reached
 an oped field and brought his machine to
 the ground without injury. He at once notified the offials at the
 aviation field of his landing.
 | Clifford Harmon and Grahame-White promptly left for Oreland in an auto-
 mobile and brought the aviator and the
 barograph, still under seal, to this city. | MT Drexel announced tonight that he
 would fly the machine back to the avia- ton field tomorrow morning. He was greatly disappointed when he found that the paragraph had failed to record an
 even 10000 feet.
 'The air was so light it was impossi-
 ble to make the machine ascend another
 carry it any further and was up at the
 extreme altitude for more than 15 min
 utes jumpAg the machine in an effort to secure a greater height
 MT. Drexel tonight said that while 1t
 was very cold, he did not suffer, as he
 had when he made his previous records
 of 675O feet at Lanark, Scotland, and S370 feet at Belmont park, because he was
 more warmly clad.
 When Drexel began his flight there was light breeze, scarcely more than
 zephyr blowing from the south. As he | rose in the air the aviator pointed his
 machine toward the north, and in less
 than five minutes the monoplane was only speck in the heavy sky.
 When the mcneplane finally dsap- peared from view on the northern horizon
 the curiosity of the crowd was at fever pitch for more than an hour. Finally when word reached the track that he mad landed safely at Oreland, 20 miles to the
 north, mighty shout went up from the anxious crowd, to be renewed when It was announced that new worlds altl-
 tude record had probably been made. | Secretary Duffy and President Ather- hodt of the Aero club of Pennsylvania l were waiting to make the official exam | ination of the barograph which Harmon | carried, still under seal. After the an- | He at once notified the officials at the aviation records for altitude the aviator | expressed regret that he had not ascend | ed higher.