The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-25
.DRExEL GETS LOST
 IN HIS AEROPLAHE Aviator Fails to Bring Airship
 Back to Track FORGED TO COME DOWN DrexeI Makes stnrt on Return Trip After Making New Airstude Rec ord of Previous Day But Gets
 on the Wrong Tack

Philadelphia, November 24-Followers of aviation here were kept busy today watching the fortunes O. J. Armstrong Drexel of this city, who yesterday estab- lished a new worlds altitude record, and Claude Grahame- White, the Englishman birdman, brought to close a series of successful exhibitions ct the Point Breeze race track in the southern section of the city. Drexel was the star. He at tempted to fly back to Philadelphia in a Bleriot mopoplane frVg, gsrplsnd, where he landed yesterday af CT ini record breaking flight, but he became lost and was forced to land at Trenton Junction. four miles from Trenton, N J.
 Oreland is about 13 miles from Phila- deiphia, but Drexel in his flight of one hour and ten minutes today travelled 20 miles MT. Drexel landed because of a shortage of gasoline. having started with but little more than sufficient to carry him from Oreland to Point Breeze. He landed on a chicken farm and said he had mistaken the Delaware river for the Schuylkiil and had travelled north instead of south He had intended following the SchuyllSill river to Point Breeze.
 Mir Drexel after he had landed tele- phoned the following statement to Phila- delphia: T found myself over river and, thinking 1t was the Schuylkill, l started, as I thought, down 1t. Instead afterwards discovered it was the Della ware. l knew l was lost before I made my landing. The landing was without mishap cannot tell what altitude I reached for there was no paragraph on the monoplane. I doubt, however that was at any time very high"
 Mir Drexel, after arranging for the safekeeping of the machine, returned to Philadelphia by train.
 ,t Claude Grahame-W White gave several ex- hibition flights today and on one of his trips took aloft Gen. James Allen, chief signal officer of the United States army.
 Two Flights By McCurdy
 Mobile November 24--J. A. D. Mo Curdy, star of the Curtiss aviation team al the meet in Mobile, gave two flights this afternoon under more difficult con ditions than has been experieced in Mo bile. While he did not reach an alti- tude of oyer 50 feet on either occasion, McCurdy risxed his life more so than at any time since coming here. The handicap was because of wind conditions. The wind blew in puffs and affected the biplanes just as a squall affects small boats. It was exceedingly dangerous.
 During McCurdy's first flight he made butsone trip around the field. He con- cluded that it was too dangerous Dur ing the flight his biplane several times in puffs of wind and dropped 20 feet. Ascending because of the wind, the aviator remained on the ground for an hour. Many of the spectators. who did not understand the conditions, became impatjent After waiting an hour Me Crrdy, becoming. convinced that the wind conditions would remain practically the same during the afternoon. made an other flight at top speed. He reached the altitude of his previous flight and after encircling the field a couple of times descended to the ground.
 The aviator experienced the same diff ficulty he had the first day and the flights for the evening were abandoned Spectators were notified that rain checks would be accepted tomorrow. Augustus Post, McCurdy's companion, was unable to make a flight. His machine is. a 25- horsepower one and could not stand the wind. .s.sb
 The largest crowd that, has yet attend ed the aviation meeting assembled on the grounds The holiday was responsible for the large attendance for it was the first opportunity many people had had of seeing the flights.
 Eugene Ely, aviator, who this week. gave exhibitions at Birmingham, arrived In Mobile, today to spend Thanksgiving with his friend, Aviator J. A. D. Me Curdy.. the latter now engaged in Cur tiss exhibitions here. It has been ar that If the consent of Augustus Post is obtained, for Ely to use his ma chine. Ely will tomorrow race McCurdy 10 miles, The event will be feature. the regular programme being carried in ad- dition.; The race depends, however, upon wind conditions. !, 9A ar '.s'sts8