The San Francisco call., 1910-10-25
AVIATORSFLYFAST
and HIGH in EAST
Second Days Events at Bel
mont Park Result in Sem
sational Flights
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graph on the sheet inside 1t examined.
The instrument shows both the
height and the time at which the
fight was made, The reading was
remarkably sharp and showed quickly
that he had risen 7.105 feet. The best
previous American record was 6.175
feet made by Walter Brookins at
Atlantic City, and Drexers own best
record made last summer in Great
Britain. was $3.50 feet, at the time
worlds record
The worlds altitude record now is
9.1sS feet, held by Henry Wynmalen of
Holland. s
Walter Brookins also went UP for
altitude in baby Wright biplane,
machine precisely like the new head
less fliers that the Wrights brought out
this summer but with a sharper up
ward slant to the. planes. thereby en-
abling the aviator to point up more
sharply and climb faster.
Brookins went up 1882 feet accord
ing to the barograph, and won second
altitude honors for the day.~At the apex
of his climb his engine, which had
given him some trouble before, stopped
dead. whit both the propellers pointing
straight up into the air, so that in glid-
ing to earth with no power on they af-
forded him the least assistance in
breaking the rush of his descent. He
came down whizzing about a mile and
a. half off the course and struck with a
bump that broke his forward landing
skid. The damage was insignificant,
however, and he was not hurt in the
least.
TEN ALOFT AT ONCE
Next to the performance Of Drexel.
the crowd took most enjoyment in the
appearance of models never seen in
America before. They were the new
Wright climber. used by Brookins in
his altitude fight; the tiny Demoisselle.
called, the humnling bird of aeroplanes,
but 1t looks more like butterfly, and
a flying fish Antoinette. In all there
were 10 machines aloft at once.
Latham piloted the Antoinette. He
sat we'll back in the sharp stem, shaped
like the stem of a speed launch, with
which it cuts the air. and the two
wheels, with which he controls the long
slender wings, could be seen incessantly
turning backward and forward under
his hands. The craft was fast and it
was particularly notable that he took
turns with a precision and daring that
the Bleriot monoplanes. more batlike
and blunter, could not attain.
In the straightaways, however, La
than was not so fast. F. w. Radly, an
Englishman in a. trimmed down Bier
lot, went by him as If he had been
frequent engine trouble and never fig
ured seriously in any of the contests
of the DAY. Latham was flying a so
horsepower eight cylinder machine His
Is cylinder 100 horsepower machine.
in which he will compete for the Cor
don Bennett cup, will not arrive until
tomorrow This powerful racer is sup
posed to be capable OF 20 miles an hour
against the rs credited TO the 100
horsepower Bleriot of lie Blanc.
Thus far neither of the 100 horse
power machines owned by the French
team has been seen in action.
AMERICAN MODELS GUARDED
What the new Curtiss and Wright
racing models can do Is "a conjecture.
They have been kept close under cover,
but thus far none of the American ma
chimes has shown itself in the same
class with the foreign monoplanes.
There was one time this afternoon
when Latham in an Antoinette passed
a Wright machine at the turn and Rad
ley followed and passed the Antoinette
in the stretch.
The program for today went through
by the card and the events called off
yesterday because of the gale were
postponed until a later day, not yet
named The hourly distance and alti-
tude events were first.
J. Armstrong Drexel took first place
in the initial distance event with %
laps, or 1880 miles, in 54 minutes 33 3-5
seconds. Auburn was second with 25
laps, and Johnstone, in Wright BIZ
plane, third, with 81 laps.
In the same hour count de Lesseps,
In a Bisriot, won the hourly altitude
prize with an elevation of 5,615 feet.
Rrookins was second in his unlucky
flight In the second hour Latham, who
started late, overhauled his competitors
and when time was called was credited
with 81 laps, one less than he had
actually made. although he had quit
the course for some unknown reason
two minutes before the finish. Grahame-
White with 81 laps, took second place.
Aubrun in Blerio was last of all to
start and first to finish also with 21
laps; but the judges deducted one lap
as a forfeit for alighting in mid d-course.