The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-13
AVIATION FLIGHTS
ARE SPECTACULAR
pauIhan Daring Exhibition
Makes Him the Idol OF
the Hour.
FRENCH AVIATOR BREAKS
ALL OFFICIAL RECORDS
CurtisS Gets Ten Thousand
Bonus and Paulhan Twenty
Five Thousand.

{ AVIATION CAMP. LOS ANGELES,
! Cal, Jan. 12.-Louis Paulhan, the
French aviator, broke all official and an
official records for. altitude in a Far
man biplaue lato this afternoon.
1t is estimated that he rose TO a
height of more than 1000 feet. AS
methods of measurements arc not exact
this may be questioned. but IT Is Ger
tain that he exceeded Hubert Latham 5
record, made al Mourmelon, France, De
cember l 1909. which was given at
between 1000 and 1900 feet. by at least
thousand feet The instrument on
, Faulhan's g machine made his greatest
height $500 feet
Paulhsn is the idol Of The mob TO.
night He made his great record short.
" after losing the speed record of
the course to Glenn H. Curtiss.
The Frenchman, using an engine
which bad Just arrived from Pans. had
been almost constantly in the limehght
all the afternoon, He had circled the
course again and again. skidded and
dipped and swung corners IN daring
fashion that made his wife shivcr-
The sun was low toward the sea and
the shadows began to gather as he made
mis- decision 10 90 higher in the ar
than any man in n heavier than-alr
machine ever had attempted.
Perfect Weather.
The wind barely stirred the feathers
in the hats of the women that blocked
the grandstand in solid masses of color.
Cortlandt F. Bishop, president of the
Aero club Of America, stood IN front
of the grandstand enthusiastic over the
beautiful scene that stretched out be
fore him
81 never saw such perfect weather
for avia tion, he remarked. . We
ought 10 have the altitude record broken
today -
a minute later Paulhan rose in tho
air IIe bent low his gray capped head
and smiled a smile of promise as he
made a short circle over the mass of
craning spectators. Cnrtiss had felt The
higher currents and come down. Iiamil-
lou had landed tamefy. Paulhan point
cd north. went up thousand fcct,
passed over the center of the field again
as though 10 take another last look
at the faces of human beings, then
turned north and up again.
BY this lime there was Just one thing
in all the universe for the crowd-thG
man and his air-conqnering machine
rapidly becoming a spcck IN the gath
ering twilight.
At the estimated height Of 1900 feet
Paulhan described a great circle. as If
feeling the currents. BY this time he
was mile and d half from the camp.
When word had spread that he had beat
en- the world s record the vast throng
was reused 10 frenzy and he still was
climbing He had taken Jacobs lad
der Of dreams 10 The Threshold of the
stars,
Two thousand feet and still climb
ing. Sense OF distance almost lost from
the earth. No one would have been sur
priscd if the man and his little wings
had been swallowed up In the void.
PauIhan Descends.
Al o'clock the machine became
plainer Paulhan began 10 descend He
came down easily in front Of the grand
stand after being in the air nearly fif-
ty-one minutes. AS he leapcd from his
machine, cheeks glowing and eyes
flashing, he was grabbed bv his friends
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