The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-02
BROKE ALL RECORDS
GLENN H. cuRTlSS FLIES FROM ALBANY TO NEW YORK IN
 FAST TIME.

MADE NEARLY A MILE A MINUTE His Average Time for the Entire Dis
 tance of 137 Miles Was 54.78 Milea
 an Hour-Made Only One Stop.
 an Hour-Made Only One Stop Dur
 ing the Trip.
 New York, May 3l.--Glenn H. Cur tiss, the famous aviator, flew in ar aeroplane from Albany to New York, . distance of 137 miles, in 152 minutes Never before had this trip been made by man in the air The flight of Cur tiss broke the worlds record for speed in long distance test. He mair tained an average of OATS miles al hour, and in spurts frequently exceed ed the rate of mile minute.
 Mounted High in the Air.
 Although the flight began officially at 703 a. m.. when MT. Curtiss skinned over the city of Albany, ht actually mounted into the air minute earlier, when he left Van Rennssalel island. At the very beginning he be gan to climb rapidly and by the time he was floating over the houses of ths capital he was fully 500 feet above the few spectators assembled to be rrh kr ho h. pp markable achievement In the history of aviation.
 Special Train Followed.
 No sooner had Curtiss quit tho ground than he made manifest hi: complete control of his machine. | flew like a hawk, with never a wavei of It's wings. The atmosphereic con dwitions were perfectly adapted fol the test Reports up and down th' river from sentries of the weather bureau indicated an almost tranquil atmosphere
 No sooner had Curtiss started thai the special train which had beer chartered to accompany the aviator or his southward voyage got under way It was from that train that I watched the aeroplane until it was about tC reach it's destination on the islant of Manhattan. Then for few min utes we lost sight of the machine.
 Our little party watched the air craf necessarily. We tried to detect thu slightest dip or dehection. As tn, official time keeper of the test. ap pointed by the Aero Club of America kept constant tab on the time ant distances.
 Within IT minutes after Curtiss sail ed over Albany he had reached an alt tude of about 1000 feet above th Hudson river. He made this stream his route and at no time if he hat fallen would he have escaped it waters.
 At 7;20 a. m., the aeroplane was fly ing swiftly over New Baltimore on thu west shore of the Hudson. In tn, meantime the train was catching ul with the bird-machine. It took abou five minutes for the locomotive of tn, special on the New York Centra tracks to get under full headway. A 7:26 the train caught up with thu aeroplane and for a long stretch W raced abreast.
 More Than Mile a Minute.
 Swifter and swifter flew the aero plane. It covered the distance iron Albany to New Baltimore, stretch ot 19 miles, in IF minutes. It swept over Newton Hook at 7:27, having scored 23 miles in "A minutes. The greai winged creature was making almost $ mile a minute on the average and evi dently exceeding this terrific speed 1T spurts
 So rapidly were both the air anc land vehicles travelling that 1t became difficult to keep a detailed record. Al 7:30 we dashed by some brick yards At 7:32 we rushed past Stockport Al 7:35 we flew past Hudson. 29 miles from Albany. Curtiss had flown those 29 miles in 32 minutes.
 Aeroplane and railroad train swept past Greendale at 7:40:30. Thirty seconds later we were opposite the town of Catskill on the west shore Al 7:44:30 both the man in the air and the swaying train, going at furious speed, reached the village of Linlithgo We flew past the Huddle of houses SC rapidly that they were far behind ir the landscape before we could realize exactly where we were We had now traversed strutch cf 35 miles ii about 42 minutes.
 To the south of Iinlithgo the Hud son river again bends to tue westward and the aviator. sticking to the middle of the rivers channel, veered in the same direction with q dip which evi denced his complete mastery of his speed.
 Following Is list of towns Curtiss passed over, their distance from Al bany and time:
 Albany to Hudson (2g miles) time 7:35 a. m. Albany to Catskill (32 miles) time, TAI a. m. Albany to Tiyoli GA miles) time. 7;53 a. m. Al bany to Kingston (53 miles) time SOS a. m. Albany to Rhinecliff (54 Iniles) time. S:06 a. m. Made first landing at Stony Brook farm, five miles south of Poughkeepsie, and F miles from Albany at S:36 a. n. Al 9:25 a. m, Curtiss ascended from Stoney Brook farm and at 10:02 passed west Point GA miles from Albany Peekskill (102 miles) at iC:14; YoEk CTS. i2ss i22ss mslcs} at le:99 90 g. i;ss;.; ;s:rit,, s:rit,, raanso5 o+ cnuvtau Duvvfl Naw Yorh