The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1911-01-05
MAY.

plane from New York to Philadelphia
and return winning $4,000 prize: time,
New York to Philadelphia, So miles,
hour 81 minutes: Philadelphia to New
York l hour So minutes.
II. Walter S. Brookins made new worlds
altitude record by ascending 4,S00 feet
at Indianapolis.
D. Count Zeppeln's dirigible Deutschland
sailed 300 miles from Friedrichshaven
to Dusseldorf, carrying II passengers.
a. Zeppelin's airship Deutschland made
excursion trip, carrying 80 passen-
gers.
2 Clifford D. Harmon broke the Ameri-
can amateur long flight record (his
OWN by remaining in the air hours
311a minutes at Mineola.
8 Second international aviation meet
opened at Rheims, France. Aviator
Wachter killed by the fall of his ma
chine.
g. Walter r. Brookins flew 6,275 feet up
in the air at Atlantic City.
~ Capt. c. S. Rolls, English aviator,
killed at Beurnemouth in a Wright BIZ
plane.
10. Radley, an English aviator, broke the
worlds speed flight record by flying a
mile in AZ 2-5 seconds.
IA. G. F. Willard carried three passengers
on a quarter mile biplane trip at Gar
den City, beating the worlds record
on the number of passengers.
81. Glenn H. Curtiss made an over water
record by flying 60 miles over Lake
Erie IN l hour is minutes. an average
of 461 miles an hour.
SEPTEMBER
II. 10 balloons started from Indianapolis
in an American championship race.
Balloon America IL landed near War
renton, Va, after a flight of Al hours.
10. Weymann, an American. and George
Chavez, a Peruvian, attempted to fly
over the Alps. Chavez succeeded, but
was MORALLY hurt in landing.
%. Walter S. Brookins broke the cross
country distance record by flying from
Chicago to Springfield, 1856 miles. win
ming a $4,000 prize.
l. Aviator Wynmalen made a world S
record for height by ascending 1856
feet at Mourmelon, France.
L. Wellman's balloon America started on
its oversee flight at Atlantic City.
H. 10 balloons, representing four nations,
started from st. Louis in the interna-
tional race for the Bennett cup and
s4,750 in prizes.
The dirigible balloon ement-Bayard,
carrying people. sailed from Paris to
LONDON IN b hours.
Is. Wellman abandoned his airship $3.50
miles off Hatteras after sailing about
$40 miles in Y hours; farthest eastern
point reached was 40 miles northeast
of Nantucket.
19. Balloon America IL. Post and Hawley
aeronauts, landed in the province OF
Quebec, 1855 miles from ST. Louis win
ming the Bennett cup for distance.
-. The international aviation meet open
ed at Belmont mark New York
Is. Ralph tombstone broke the American
aeroplane record for flight by ascend
ing 1903 feet at Belmont park, beating
]. Armstrong DrexePs record of 7105.
q. Ralph tombstone assembled 1900 feet IN
an aeroplane at Belmont park (The
| worlds record was 9.1S6)
| %. Claude GrahameW White won the speed
race at Belmont park: time for ST.
| miles. 81 minutes IA seconds.
| 30. J. 3. Moisant won the race from Bel
| mont park to the statue of Liberty
and return. covering "a miles in 8
| minutes 3i.S4 seconds.
81. Ralph tombstone assembled 9.14 feet a
| Belmont park, establishing a world:
| record for altitude.
| NOVEMBER.
| IA Eugene 3. Ely in the Curtiss biplan,
| Hudson Filler flew from the deck o.
the United States cruiser Birmingham
| In Hampton Roads, to Willoughb,
beach, miles distant.
IL Ralph tombstone. the aviator killed b3
| the fall of his biplane at Denver; aget
30
| q. J. Armstrong Drexel assembled $50
feet in a monoplane at Philadelphia
breaking the worlds record
| DECEMBER.
9. Legagneux, French aviator, scared 10.
ass feet at Pau. making a new world
record for altitude.
10. Capt. BelIanger. French army aviato
| broke the worlds speed record by mai
ing an average of over So miles an hou
in a 100 mile flight from Vincennes {
| Mourmelon.