The Washington herald., 1910-10-25
TEN AEROPLANES
IN The AIR At ONCE
Grand Spectacle Afforded at
Belmont Park Meet.
AMERICAN ALTITUDE RECORD
j. Armstrong DrexeI Climbs In His
BleriOt Until BarOgraph Registers
7,iO0 Feet-Brookins Near Disaster
in New "ROadster'-Tiny Machine
Makes Several Pretty Flights.

/ New York. oct 24-Ten aeroplanes in
the air, all at ouce-a record flock for
American atmosphere-was the view Of
fered 70 the Belmont Park grand stands
this afternoon. tie third day Of the inter
national aviation tournament. Following
: close upon this spectacle, j. Armstrong
DrsXel climbed in his BIeriot until his
| barograph registered 400 feet. which es-
tablishes q new American altitude rec
/ ord.
| Walter Brookins, IN the new Wright
roadster" a tiny example Of the famil-
lar Wright biplane. was nghting with
/ Count De Lesseps Bleriot for altitude
ea'ly in the day when Brookins' engine
went dead AT height OF about 4,5C9 feet,
and the propellers became jammed and
immovable. and BrOOkins had 20 voiplane
almost a mile 10 earth. He landed safely
a mile or two northeast Of the aviation
field, but broke one OF his skids upon
striking the ground.
Carries Girl Around Course
Count de Lesseps carried Miss Grace
Mckenzie, Of Toronto, who is said TO be
the counts hancee. around the shorter
course OF two and one-half kiiometers
three times. holland Garros arose twice
/ or three times IN the littlest aeroplane
the Demoiselle thereby accomplishing the
distinction of being the hrst fier to show
this type OF hummlng bird In flight in
America.
Hubert Latham flew early and often in
the wide-spreading AntOinette monoplane
which he was the first 10 make behave
in the air. Also the Latha flights or to-
day afforded Americans their first view
Of an Antoinette at professional meet
the first flights of Importance, in fact,
made in this country with this type Of
machine Incidentally. the crowds al the
meet voted the Antoinette model the
NEST imposing OF all air craft. II scared
evenly. majestically with far-stretched
wings. a nerveless eagle lowering above
neuresthenic swallows
CurtiSs Camp Is Busy.
The Curtiss camp in the later after
noon were the sole entrants for the bi-
plane elimination speed heats McCurdy,
Frisbie. and Mars got away a minute
apart in the order named and the first
TO start. McCurdy, also made the fastest
time as he flew fast enough TO lap even
Bud Mars once out of every five laps.
even though Mars was flying the Curtiss
machine in which Air Curtiss. at the
Squantum meet early In September on
one occasion, outfew Grahame- Whites
Farman.
AT twilight Charles X Hamilton, who
doesn't care much what re does in the
air. and whose combined falls total more
than 1890 feet. or almost three miles
shot across a saffron sky for two circuits
of the course in his Hamiltonian, as he
calls his racing biplane Of the Curtiss
type. II was Hamiltons first appearance
on the course, but as his aeroplane is
equipped with an engine OF about 10
horsepower, the most powerful aeroplane
engine in existence, he did not dare .'let
er OUT on the short course.
Makes Rapid Ascent.
1t was left 10 J. Armstrong Drexel TO
show the crowd high flying such as never
before had been seen in America. and
which has been excelled only twice
throughout the world. Mr.. Drexel did his
stunt not many minutes after the
o'clock bomb signaled that the time now
was open for the first of the grand alti-
tude events. And in establishing an Off
cial American altitude record Of I, Jos feet,
or more than mile and a third in the
air, Drexel broke a record for breaking
records. He made the climb in thirty-tw0
minutes
IN wide circle he mounted. But as he
got up around the 70O0-foot level he found
that. as he himself put it for descending.
h was high. II was the frozen hades
Of Dante and Others familiar with
hades farthest north, not the region Of
hot air we are accustomed to imagine.
And so when he was numb with cold,
Mr.. Drexel started earthward. He did
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