The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-02
FACES AIR PER|LS
IN DARING FLIGHT
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as IT lay in the power OF human
achievement TO make 1t. Hitherto 1t
has been principle strictly held TO
by all aviators that wherever there
was dangerous spot to cross, the
higher one could rise the safer. II
had been calculated that for every
loot of drop properly executed
volplane would carry the aeroplanc
forward three feet. Thus TO glide
safely out of danger to proper land.
ING place ii was only necessary 10
rise high enough.
But Atwood made his turn of IN.
Singer Tower at a height of 525 foot
from tho street. a little more than
eighty feet below the pinnacle of tho
tower and barely above the Jagged
Gothic roof of the City Investment
building, directly below and beside
the tower.
The fluttering flag at the TOP of tho
tower showed there was wind blow
ing of perhaps fifteen or twenty milo,
an hour. not enough to bother Atwood
In his steady going Wright Burgess
biplane.
''Just Got Up and Did It.v
Thea trical as was the feat in its ac
complisheTent il was prefaced by no
thea;r ical announcements. Only n few
people In the city knew that Atwood
was on his way, and OF these still
fewer understood that he intended TO
cross and recross Manhattan Island.
! Everybody believed that he would
take safer. more prosaic path across
Long Island AS one broker said: He
just got up and did it,
Atwood's fight to-day was really n
continuation of his flight yesterday
from Squantum Field. Boston, to New
London. where he cut fancy ngures
above the winning Harvard shell as il
drew to the finish line in tho eight
cared varsity race. His distance then
| and ten minutes. The best previous
record was 100 miles. made by p G
Parmalee. n Wright pupil with Lieu
tenant Foulois. United States Army.
as passenger. Atwood carried his
echanician for companion yester-
day. and repeated the feat to-day
Rising from Now London at 7:05
he pa sscd over Bridgeport. Conn. at
! s:2s. 1900 feet In the air. At South
! WAS we'll ont over the sound. flying
powerfully at an even level. Between
| New Haven and Bridgeport n moving
| passenger train on the tracks OF the
| New York. New Haven and Hartford
| Railroad tickled his fancy. and de-
sccndinE within easy sight of the
! amazed passengers. he followed it,
| headed II. crossed the tracks in front
| OF the locomotive. and, repeating his
| performance. made three complete cir
| clcs OF the train before he resumed Ills
| southwestward course. At Port Ches-
| ter the aviator was still following the
| shore of the sound Mt 9:03. Twelve
! minutes later he passed over Larch.
| mont, and it was here that his deter
I nina ton to dare greater difficulties
| first became evident. Pointing his
! planes toward New York he steered
inland over Mount Vernon and at a:20
headed directly for the thickly
populated Bronx From there on to
| the finish his Hight was one constant
| succession of perils spurned and mas
! tered.
Craft UnInIured.
| Gee whiliikcns, but / am tired
was the first ejaculation uttered by
| Atwood as he stretched his legs lux
urously and walked up and down tho
! sand. Hastily going over the craft
| that had flown all the way from Bos-
ton, he found that It was absolutcly
in good condition. Not a wire OF
stick was damaged. Even the motor
was not hot. There was enough gaso-
! lene left to make a flight of another
| hour.
| After a short rest he made another
seven minute flight over the bay witt
| Lieutenant Fickel He is not decided
whether or not to fly back TO Boston
| Tomorrow
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