The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31
FLIES FROM ALBANY
TO NEW YORK
Glenn H. Curtiss Makes the
Trip at Sd Miles an Hour;
Wins $4,000.
ALIGHTS TWICE
IN THE FLIGHT

New YORK, ". l., May 3O.-Glen Cur
tiss s mavelous feat of aviation in fly.
ing from Albany to New York yester.
day, 1877 miles in l52 minutes, COMPEL.
ed the attention of the entire world to.
day. The flight from the state capitol
to Governor Island breaks all speed
records of aviation distance contests.
Today Mr.. Curtiss said he believed
still greater flights could be accom-
plished, and at no distant date. For
minutes at a time the Curtiss bi.plane
which is the smallest that ever figured
in "a great aviation contest, skinned
through the air at 60 miles an hour.
Mr.. Curtiss won the $4,000 prize
offered by the New York World.
His average speed for the distance
-54.06 miles an hour--surpasses any
other record ever made by an aeroplane
in long distance flight and in its entire.
ty his feat perhaps eelipses anything
man has attempted in a heavier.than
air machine.
oheo otb ASot
Charles X. Hamilton, aviator, has OF.
fered to subscribe $4,000 toward a prize
of perhaps 1000 or more for a flight
from New York to Chicago.
"Within go days" he said, "feats
will he performed that will make the
Curtiss flight look very simple; really
it is easy money.
Next we should have u prize of gen.
erous size for a really difficult flight,
such as between New York and Chi.
cago. The distance is about $50 miles.
would limit the time to SO hours and
the number of stops to seven. 1t can
be done, but it will be test for both
! aviators and machines. -
Curtiss s start was made from Albany
at 1903 O'clock Sunday morning under
weather conditions nearly perfect. One
hour and % minutes later he had made
his stopping place near Poughkeepsie,
where there was an hours intermission.
Resuming his flight at 9:26 he landed
within the boundary of Manhattan is.
land at l0:35
! Thence to Governor Island his task
was but the concluding lap of a race
won.
Bests Paulhan
Paulhan 's flight from London to Man.
| chester--ls6 miles-exceeded the Cur
| tisa foot in diQtonca hut pnt In anapd
and danger The Frenchman = average
was 44.3 miles an hour aud below him
lay English meadowland. Curtiss fol
lowed the winding course Of the historic
Hudson, with abutting headlands, wood
ed slopes and acherous palisades. lie
swung high over the great bridge M
Poughkeepsie, dipped at times within
so feet of the rivers broad surface
and scared like falcon at the turns
Only once did his craft show signs OF
rebellion. This was off Storm King
near West Point, when at n height OF
nearly 1000 feet, treacherous gust
struck his planes. The machine dropped
like rock 80 feet and tilted perlously
But Curtiss, always cool, kept his head
and by adroit manipulation of his levers
brought equilibrium to his steed.
Curtiss arose from the ground like
a rocket at his start at Albany. Their,
were no preliminary maneuvers and nj
trial flight. The aeroplane ran hur
riedly over the surface of the islanc
and darted straight for its goal to th'
southwark, turning once for n moment
to the westward so that Curtiss nigh
comply with the provisions and leave
the Alb0dy city limits.
: rhe start
straigh up scared the aeroplane int
the distance. When IL reached a heigh
estimated at 500 feet, it seemed for