Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-08-21
ATWOOD DOES FOUR
MILES IN THREE
MINUTES
REMARKABLE SPEED BY
LONG DISTANCE AVIATOR.
Eighteen Towns and Villages
in New York Catch Glimpse
of Birdman Flying Eastward
at Express Train Gait

rBy Morning Journal special Leased wire.t
Lyons, y. Y. Aug. 2O,-Nine hun
dred and thirty miles from st. Louis.
his starting point. Harry n. Atwood,
Boston aviator who is fast approach
ing the worlds long distance record In
his flight to New York, landed in a
field at Lyons this afternoon after
flying one hundred and four miles
from Buffalo without stop.
Ascending in Buffalo at SEQ. At
wood climbed TO high altitude, turn
ed eastward and helped by brisk
wind from the west. shot over towns
and villages at a speed which kept
telegraph operators busy reporting his
progress. He alighted in Lyons at
6;S1 p, M, having covered the one
hundred and four miles in two hours
and eleven minutes.
In one instance he went four miles
in three minutes. and on reaching
Rochester sixty-nine miles from Buff
falo, he went around the city so fast
that the people standing on notice
buildings could not get more than a
glimpse of him.
A train that left Buffalo when At
wood did, ran in sight of the aero
plane almost all the way to Roches-
tier. but arrived there eighteen min
.utes after the aviator had passed
around the city and disappeared in
the east.
/ The train, however had made a
stop enroute.
Atwood is now 335 miles from New
York, having made almost three
fourths of the 1,265-mile flight since
Monday. BY Tuesday night he hopes
to reach Albany and on Wednesday In
a one-day flight down the Hudson
river he expects to break the worlds
record for distance and finish his trip
landing at Coney Island before sun
down. For the nine hundred and
thirty miles already covered he has
been in the air actually nineteen hours
and fifty-eight minutes.
Atwood win break the worlds long
distance record If he reaches point
on the Hudson south of Albany be-
tween Greendale and Rhinecliff. If
he reaches Rhinecliff he will have
flown l,777 miles or thirteen miles
more than the present record of 1854
miles by European aeronauts. His
flying time, he expects will be ter
i days as compared with thirty days
taken by the present record holders
If he reaches New York City the Bos-
tonian will have broken the worlds
record by one hundred and one miles
Eighteen towns and villages saw
the aviator today as he swept ovel
them, some times flying as low az
one hundred and fifty feet, so III
could read the names of the railroad
stations as he passed.
"The strangest feature of my triT
today" said Atwood, was that l RAJ
into clouds of dust Not far out o
Buffalo | found the air even at 6
great altitude filled with fine grains
of sand. | steered in all directions
high and low to avoid it, but 1t wa.
not until | reached Batavia that
found the air free. Nearing Roche stel
/ decided to fly around the city al
the smoke there appeared likely t'
confuse
Atwood does not intend to reacl
Albany before Tuesday night. Leav
ing Albany Wednesday morning HI
hopes to cover the one hundred ant
: forty-two miles from there to New
York with one intermediate stop
sailing over the city and landing a
Coney Island in the afternoon
Soon after he returns to Boston
Atwood said he would prepare for
transcontinental flight this autumn
probably from Los Angeles to New
York, He said he thought he coul,
make the $500 miles in fifteen days
taking southern course to St. Loui
and coming north by the way of Gin
cinnati into New York state.