The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-01-10

plane from New York 10 Philadelphia
and return. winning $1,000 prize: time.
New York to Philadelphia. s. miles.
hour 81 minutes; Philadelphia 20 New
York. / hour % minutes
II. Walter 8. Brookins made new worlds
altitude record BY ascending $3.50 feet
at Indianapolis.
a Count Zeppelin's dirigibie Deutschland
rallied 90 miles from Friedrichshaven
20 Dusseldorf. carrying II passengers.
a Zeppelfn's airship Deutschland made
an excursion trip. carrying . passen.
gers
4 Clifford n. Harmon broke the Ameri-
can amateur long night record Oils
own) b. remaining In the air hours
nv minutes at Mlneoia
. Second international aviation meet
opened AZ Rheims. France Aviator
wachter killed By the fall Of his ma
chine
q walter r. Brookins few e.z7s feet up
IN the air at Atlantic City.
L. Capt. G. 9. Rolls. English aviator.
killed AZ Bournemouth In wrigh, b.
plane.
II Radiey, an English aviator. broke the
worlds speed night record by nying .
mile IN q 20 seconds.
"a c. 7. willard carried three passengers
on a quarter mile blpians trip az Car
den City. beating tho worlds record
on the number OF passengers.
81. Glenn II Curfiss made an over water
record BY flying % miles over Lake
Erie IN / hour Is minutes. an average
OF s6i miles an hour.
svp-r~nr,
IL. Is balloons started from Indianapolis
III an American championship race.
Balloon America II. landed near War
renton. Va. after a iiight o. ~ hours.
n weymann. an American. and George
Chavez. a Peruvian. attempted 20 ny
over the Alps Chavez succeeded, but
was MORALLY hurt IN landing.
~. Walter 3. ftrooklus broke the cross
country distance record BY flying from
Chicago 10 Springfield. iss miles. win
Ming a 10000 prize.
ocIoBKa.
I. Aviafor wynmaien made worlds
record for heIght by ascending s.iss
feet NJ Mourmeion. France.
y. weIlman's balloon America started on
it, oversee eight 81 Atlantic City.
~. 10 balloons. representing four nations.
started frum 81 Louis IN the Internal
tIonai race for the Bennett cup and
fl10 N prizes.
The dlflg;ble balloon ciement-Baynrd.
carrying people. sailed from Paris 20
london In 9 hours.
IA wciiman abandoned his airship 30
miles on fiatteras after sailing about
SO miles n = hours; farthest eastern
point reached was 10 miles northeast
Of Nantucket.
M H. 49,
asronauts. landed In the province of
cuehec, i.c5 niles from 80. Louis. win.
ming the bennett cup for distance.
=. The International aviation meet OPEN
Cd AZ Belmont park. New York
-. Ralph tombstone broke the American
aeroplane record FOR flight BY ascend
ina 7.3ud feet at Belmont park. beating
J. Armstrong Drexei's record OF 7.i06.
n Ralph tombstone assembled 300 feet On
an aeroplnne AZ Belmont park. (The
worlds record was afN1
-. Claude Grahanc-white won the speed
race at belmont park: time for cal
miles. 81 minutes "a seconds
~ J. n. Molsant won the race from Rel.
mont park 20 the statue OF Liberty
and return. covering - miles IN "a
minutes 3lsi seconds.
n. Ralph tombstone assembled ana feet at
belmont park. establishing worlds
record for altitude
NOVEMBER
~ Eugene n. Ely IN the Curtiss hiplane
Hudson Filler fiew from the degs OF
the United States cruiser Blrmingi am.
beach. miles Distant
NJ Ralph Johustone. the aviator, killed BY
the fall o. his tlplsne al Denver; aged