The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-27
IS X TOP NOTCHER
]. ARMSTRONG DRExEL BROKE THE RECORD FOR ALTI-
 TUDE.
MADE THE TRIP IN 32 MINUTES
With a 5leriot MonopIane He Went Up 7,1o5 Feet-The Exhibition al the Park the Most Wonderful Ever Seen in America.

New York, Oct 26.-Never before on the American continent has thera been such a wonderful exhibition of aeroplane flying as occurred at the Belmont Park international aviation meet. Within five minutes after the bomb signalled the opening of tho third days program ten air crafts. comprising the worlds most notabls biplanes and monoplanes were cir. cling and dipping gracefully around the course. AS Count Jacques Do Lesseps set off for the higher air lanes to make an altitude record in his Bleriot monoplane, Walter Brook. ins with the Novel baby Wright bi. plane, set after him. Though he had never driven the new craft before. the boyish Wright aviator bored his way into the cold upper areas and his motor abruptly stopped at an altitude of 1882 feet From this height, lost to view to people in the grandstand, he coasted earthward, landing safely two miles from Belmont Park, while his more fortunate French rival con. tinued to mount until he reached the height of 5,615 feet.
 Americans Were Leaders.
 But above everything else the most gratifying thing to national pride was the fact that the Americans loomed larger in this carnival of flight than all others. Drexel, Hoxsey and Hamilton were the heroes of the day who carried away the victories, Latham, Garros, De Lesseps, all Frenchmen, and Radley, the English. man were close seconds, but the mo J thrlllingly spectacular, the feat that oyershadowed all others, was the 3l minute dash by J. Armstrong Drexel with his Bleriot monplane to height of 7,105 feet, which constitutes tie American altitude record.
 On the High Flight.
 When his craft left the ground he did not waste any time on prelImina circles of the field. Stolidly and wi i amazing speed he forced his mschii c upward. As the craft grew small, r | and smaller in the~ sky, wheelil X about in gigantic circles, the crowd began to take it's attention off the desultory flying of the French cham. pions. At times the aeroplane, out. lined on the hay sky, would disap. pear beyond the grandstand as it made its eight mile circles. Rour and round the tiny boat circled the heavens. Just as the crowd began to grow apprehensiye the dim point in | the sky turned earthward. From a distance of three miles away. almost one mile and half in the air, Drexel began to coast downward. Apparent | ly he came very slowly. Without dc | viating from the straight path he had | laid out for himself, he came sliding | earthward through space. As the b | plane came more plainly in view Ii I was apparent that it was descending l at a terrific speed. Rushing like a swallow it came darting toward the aviation field at incredible speed But never did the millionaire aviator attempt to lessen the velocity of his craft nor to change the steep angle of it's descent. Only when he reached a distance not more than 300 feet above the aviation field did he bring it on an even keel Then he sent the craft skimming around the course imperceptible degrees. Finally hs guiding toward the turf by almost landed in the center of the field as | leaf, coming to a stop on a line wit i the starting line.