The Arvada enterprise., 1911-08-17
ATWOOD MAKES
LONG FLIGHT
S HOURS AND as
MINUTES.
DISTANCE OF 2S6 MILES
BREAKS AMERICAN RECORD FOR
SINGLE DAYS AEROPlANE
FLIGHT.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Chicago.-Aviator Atwood's flight
from st. Louis to Chicago establishes
a new American distance record for a
single day.
Total distance, travelling in air line,
2S6 miles.
Actual flying time, hours and 46
minutes.
Time from start to finish. including
delays for two stops, 10 hours and IA
minutes.
Average altitude, 500 feet
Beats by 1873 miles best previous
American record of 14S miles made by
himself in flying from Atlantic City to
Baltimore in July, 1911.
If he keeps up his first days rec
ord, Atwood will cover the l,l60 miles
from St Louis to Boston in seven
days. instead of ten days. as planned.
BY flying the 2S6 miles from st.
Louis to Chicago with only two inter
mediate stops and in an actual flying
time of hours and AZ minutes. Harry
n Atwood of Boston believes he has
set pace that will result in his
establishing a new record on his flight
by aeroplane from st. Louis to New
York and Boston.
Atwood appears to have broken the
American record for single days
flight The best previous American
record was made by Atwood himself
when he flew 14S miles from Atlantic
City to Baltimore July 10, 1911.
The best international cross-country
record is held by Andre Beaumont,
who in the Paris-Rome contest covered
i0l miles in single day. but in this
Instance he made three laEiings.
while Atwood landed only twice be-
tween start and finish.
Atwood in Burgess-Wright bi.
plane left st. Louis at sos a. m He
landed in Chicago at 6:19 p. m His
total time between St. Louis AMI Chi
cago. counting the delays occaSioned
by the two stops, was ten hous and
fourteen minutes.
Atwood's descent into Chicago was
thrilling, Sailing in from the south
west, lone speck in the clouds. he
made direct for the downtown district,
and for a time hovered uunotlced in
he distance over the skyscrapers.
Suddenly the crowd noticed the on
coming stranger and voice sh Duted,
That's Atwood from ST. Louis
Immediately the vast assembly was
In an uproar Two or three "f the
air men sailed out to meet Atwood.
Coming steadily onward Atwood
,teered over the aviation field and cir
cled around 1t while several % tn"
machines listed In the meet followed
behind as an escort.
Once around Atwood descended
gracefully, touching the ground for the
iirst time since his stop at Pontiac,
H., ninety-one miles from Chicago
Originally setting ten days as the
maximum time for completing the 400
miles to Boston. Atwood believes by
he pace he has set he will be able Ia
materially reduce that estimate. He
had not expected to reach Chicago so
soon. but favorable weather and the
excellent condition OF his machine in.
iuced him to shorten his stops.
His first stop which was made at
Springfield, ninety eight miles from st
Louis, after two hour and twenty
five minute flight, was to fulfnl a
promise.
Instead OF remaining there rltl 3
o. m. he got away two hours earlier.
He was scheduled to stop at Rluom.
lngton. H.. but the crowds assembled
at his proposed landing place ther'
we're so dense he could not find a
clear space to land in, so he swept
low and shaking his head negatively
at the people, continued
At Pontiac he descended to seplen
ish his supply Of gasoline and mbrl
eating oil
All that was suffered by the man
who thus sailed through the air at a
speed greater than that OF an express
train was slight buzz in his ears
caused by the chugging OF his engine