The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-04
CUP WON BY BR|TON
GRARAnE-WH LIFTS GEN
NETT TRoPHY-MAkEs e.
MILES AZ OF MINUTES.
lie BLANC AND BRoOKlNS FALL
Neither Are Seriously Hurt, but Their
Aeroplanes Are Smashed-Moisant
Flies a Spectacular Race Around
Statue OF Liberty.

New York. oct 5l-Claude Ora
hame White flying for the ROYAL Aero
club OF the United Kingdom. lifted the
Gordon Bennett international speed
trophy from the custody OF America in
the fastest time ever covered for the
full distance of 100 kilometers. GAIA
miles. around a five kilometer course
His average speed was a fraction
better than 81 miles an hour and his
fastest lap was 2:55:77. but the cap
tain OF the French team. Alfred lie
Blanc. In a similar machine. a 100
horsepower Bleriot monoplane. was
making each lap on an average OF 20
seconds faster than Grahame- White
and would have won the cup II he had
not met with disastrous accident in
his last lap. when he had the race
seemingly well in hand.
Worlds Record is Set
His first lap was a new worlds rec
ord for five kilometers. 2:45:GS. but
he subsequently exceeded il with lap
in 2.44:32.
lie Blanc was running with the wind
under full power at an estimated
speed OF so miles an hour when the
feed pipe from his gasoline tank TO his
motor loosened under the incessant
jarrias Of the engine and he sudden
ly found himself with nothing but mo-
mentum % carry him. lie Blanc was
helpless and panic stricken.
Crashes into Telegraph Pole.
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the last few drops OF gasoline might
filter down into the engine and lend
him strength enough to make land
Ing. His steerage way was gone and
when a pun OF wind caught him he
drifted sideways. still driving at ire
mendous speed. and crashed head fore.
most into telegraph pole
The pole was II inches thick. but /
be broke It in three pieces as if II had I
been toothpick The chassis and Z
steel shield which incloses the motor
We're completely crumpled. but the
solid steel OF the motor itself with
stood the shock
In addition 10 lie Blanc's acciden-,
the program was married by a serious
mishap to Walter Brookins OF the
Wright team. who had taken mp the
new baby" Wright racer for the first
time. The machine was comparative
~ untried and in previous flights or
Vile Wright always guided IT,
6rookins in Bad Fall
Brookins was just coming around
the turn into the homestretch for a
trial circle preparatory TO entering in
TO the Gordon Bennett race when four
0f his eight cylinders ceased firing
Driven by the wind and his engine
he came hurting through the air at
such tremendous speed that when he
touched the earth his front wheels
and forward frame collapsed under
him The machine stuck its nose into
he dirt. slowly reared tail upward.
md finally collapsed. top side under.
most. with a thud.
Brookins was thrown from his seat
IN somersault and was semi-con-
.cious when he arose Although he
lad been painfully injured in the '
5roin and severely bruised. there were
&c bones broken.
Moisant in Spectacular Race.
John b. Moisant. an American. the ]
anne man who flew from Paris to
.ondon. was the victor i'm the most
lerilous and spectacular aeroplane !
ace known 70 the annals OF aviation. {
Dashing az more than mile a min
ne speed from Belmont park 10 the
,fa+no of I fbortv In Now YORK bar
'or and back again 10 Belmont park !
distance OF 80 miles as the crow
lies. but 35 miles including the extra
Mileage covered I'm the turns az both
nds. he won over Count de Lesseps.
he French aviator. and Claude Ora :
anne White. the English champion. BY I
margin OF IS seconds