Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-25
BROOKINS sWOOPs
DOWN AIR LANES
Aviator in Baby BipIane Wins
Second Altitude HonorS at
Eastern Meet
MACHINE CRASHES ON EARTH
DrexeI and Aubrun Shoot Down
Stretch Like Bullets and
Turn Sharply
MACHINE CRASHES ON EARTH
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monoplane and John N. Frisbie in a
machine of his own make followed.
There were so many monoplanes in
the air at once that the eye could
hardly follow their positions. They evil
IDENTIFY were competing for distance and
duration in the regular daily events for
the first hour.
Aubrun in another Bleriot went up
and then there were six in the air. F'ris-
bic came down on the far turn before
completing a full circuit with engine
trouble.
Drexel and Aubrun soon found that
by flying low in the home stretch they
could use the shelter of the grand stand
and shoot down the stretch right away
like bullets. Aubrun made the turns
wonderfully short. He gained slowly
on DreXel. Clifford B. Harmon, who
loaned his machine to Grahame White,
substituted a zero for the official num-
Der 13 assigned him. That did not
keep the humming Bleriots from piling
up the distance against him.
GREAT SPEED OF MONOPLANEs
Broolxins, in the new Wright racer,
took the air and again there were six
aIoft at once.
Brookins had trouble and soon de-
scended. Charles f. Willard took his
place in a Curtiss biplane and scared
for altitude j. P. d. McCurdy was a
late starter for hourly distance.
The monoplanes still seemed the fast
er as they shot by the stand. Brookins
found his Wright obstinate and came
down after four rounds. Eugene B.
Ely, soaring after Willard for altitude,
was quickly out of sight
Then Hubert Latham in a 100
horsepower Antoinette appeared for the
first time. The tricky nature of the
T.. o
manipulation of the mechanism which
the helmsman was obliged to make.
He flew very close to the ground.
Brookins got up again late in the
hour and scared for altitude. De Les
seps tilted his planes upward at almost
the same moment. The two floated in
the wind and were soon tiny specks.
There were then ten bird men in the
air.
DAYS PROGRAM UNBROKEN
The program for today went through
by the card and the events called off
yesterday were postponed until later
day, not yet named.
The hourly distance and altitude
events were first.
j. A. Drexel took first place in the
initial distance event, with 2S laps, or
4S.50 miles, in 81 minutes 80 S-5 Sec
Dnds.
AuOIun Was 6GGOllNl, Will 20 ldpSb dIlu
Johnstone, in Wright, third, with q
In the same hour, Count de Lesseps,
in a BleriOt, won the hourly altitude
prize with an elevation of 5615 feet.
Brookins was second in his unlucky
flight.
In the second hour Latham, who
started late, overhauled his competi-
tors and when time was called, was
credited with 21 laps, one less than he
had actually made, although he had
quit the course for some unknown rea-
son two minutes before the finish.
Grahame-White, with Il laps, took
second place.
Aubrun, in a Bleriot, was last of all
to start, and first to finish, also with
q laps, but the judges deducted one
lap as a forfeit for alighting in mid
course Although he was placed last,
his time for the distance was the fast
est of the three.
PROTEST NOT URGED
Nothing was heard today from the
disgruntled Frenchmen who protested
yesterday against the outer course of
five kilometers over which the Gordon
Bennett race for the trophy must be
flown, but at the close Of the day Cort-
land f. Bishop, president of the Aero
Club of America, and chairman of the
contest committee, stated the rules of
the International Aeronautic fedora
tion specified nothing as to the char
acter of the ground over which the
course must be run.
However, in Difference to the COM
plants made yesterday by Alfred LIE
Blanc who leads the French team, GER
tain small trees and sign posts will
be removed and one of the pylons will
be shifted to avoid houses and sheds
now in the way
THE SUMMARIES
First hourly distance. Won by Drex-
ell (Bleriot) Is laps, in 81 minutes 80 3-5
seconds; second, Aubrun (Bleriot) %
laps, As minutes l 1-5 seconds; third,
Johnstone (Wright) q laps, Sc minutes
43 seconds.
Second hourly distance: Won by
Latham (Antoinette) 21 laps, As min
utes Al 4-5 seconds; Grahame-Whit
(Farman) 21 laps, 81 minutes 5S 2-5
seconds; third, Aubrun (BlerioD 20
laps, 46 minutes 54 AS seconds.
First hourly altitude: Won by De
I.esseps (Bleriot) 5615 feet; second,
Brookins (Wright) 1882 feet; third,
Willard (Curtiss) 629 feet; fourth, Ely
(Curtiss) 412 feet.
Second hourly altitude: Won by ]. A.
Drexel (Bleriot) 71O5 feet (new Ameri-
can record).
Grand speed contest, elimination heat
for biplanes: Won by j. A. D. Nc
Curdy (Curtiss) 10 minutes 49 1-5 Sec
onds Mars (Curtiss) second; distance,
25 kilometers.
Totalization of duration: Time aloft
by any aviator in all events: Won by
Hoxsey (Wright) / hour 81 minutes
3-5 seconds; second, Grahame-White
(Farman) / hour So minutes II AS
seconds; third, tombstone (Wrigh) 1
hour 40 minutes % 3-5 seconds.
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