Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-12
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Aviator Flies Fifty Miles in ~
Minutes, So Seconds. 4
QUICK 1,600.F00T CLIMB
Sightseers at Atlantic City Also Wit
ness Spectacular Flights by
Brookins and Coffyn.

ATLANTIC CITY, n. j.. July 12-Glenn
Curtiss set an American record for a ffty
mile flight I'm an aeropiane yesterday aft
ernoon by covering a half hundred mea-
sured miles I'm nve-mile laps along the
beach In elapsed time OF 1 hour. II min
utes and 81 seconds. Curtiss was in the
air hour and 30 minutes. and spent 1
hour. n minutes and 5 seconds on the
course. minutes and q seconds being
deducted for the turns at the two ends
OF the 2I1 mile course.
AT the end Of his fifty-mile flight Cur
tiss swept his machine back over the
waterways on the meadow side OF the
city and made an entire circuit OF the
resort before he descended TO receive the
plaudits OF the cheering crowd.
Mrs. Curtiss was among tie first to
greet him. Walter Brookins. who holds
the worlds altitude record. and Frank
Coffyn. his rivals. flying the Wright ma
chine, were among those who extended
their concentrations.
In the early evening Curtiss set a new
mark for quick climbing by sweeping his
machine 1900 feet in the air In minutes
and 81 seconds.
After a wait of hours for a slowing
OF the sharp southerly wind. which swept
In from the ocean. Curtiss rose In the air
for the ffty-mile flight. at 1922 in the aft
ernoon. After q short warming I'D spin. he
swung back over the upper mark made
by range flags on a Boardwalk building
at Massachusetts, avenue and started on
his long fly.
Delayed by Cross Winds
Owing to the cross winds which
still held strong in the upper air.
Curtiss never reached a faster speed than
fifty miles an hour. his average for the
race being about forty miles.
The course laid out by the ohicials
was along the edge Of the ocean from
Massachusetts, avenue on the north 20
Dover avenue on the south, thus bringing
Curtiss and his flying machine within
range or view of the people from the
inlet down to Ventnor Practically all
Of Atlantic City was on the Boardw Tx
or on the beach watching the flight and
Curtiss was repeatedly cheered.
At the end of his flight Curtiss de-
clared that his engine worked perfectly.
and he added his belief that the added
weight which he was forced to carry In
the way OF emergency apparatus fer use
in case Of a fall into the sea and the
necessity Of running partly into the wind
to keep in the course held him back At
least fifteen miles an hour.
Flights by Brookins.
Brookins started up Immediately after
Curtiss landed from his long night. and
described sharp curves and turns. ending
with his first exhibition of q triple tun
that almost stood his machine on end.
Brookins and Coffyn then went up togeth-
er, with Brookins driving the biplane.
getting OF well after a false start, caus-
ed by loose running rail. Later in the
day Coffyn went up alone, giving an
other thrilling exhibition of turning and
swooping. During his lone flight Brook
ms made a one-thousand-foot sweep
along the beach just over the heads OF
the crowd, ending by driving his machine
over the breakers. hardly a foot from
the surf.
Brookins had hardly landed on the beach
before Curtiss' machine rose in the afr.
carrying Lincoln Beachy. the profess
sional dirigible balloon driver. perched
behind Curtiss, and standing close TO
the whirring engine. The crowd yelled
in appreciation OF the daring feat.
while Beachy waved his arm among
the tahgle Of wires in a return salute.
The two men rose to a height OF zoo
feet and circled over the sea before
they made a landing.
Measurement Of Curtiss' quick climb
feat was taken from the records OF
the same paragraph used to measure
the altitude reached by Brookins
Saturday The aviator started close to
the ocean pier, and his turns were so
sharp and quick that his entire flight
was confined to the space between his
starting point and the million dollar
pier The exhibition did not conclude
until long after shutdown.