Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-01-12

plane from New York TO Philadelphia
and return. winning $4,000 prize: time.
New York to Philadelphia, Sc miles
hour 81 minutes; Philadelphia to New
York. 1 hour 81 minutes
II. Walter S. Brookins made new worlds
altitude record by ascending 1850 feet
at indianapolis.
20 Count Zeppelin's dirigibe Deutschland
sailed $40 miles from Friedrichshaven
TO Dusseldorf. carrying II passengers.
"a. Zeppelins airship Deutschland made
an excursion trip carrying 80 passen-
gers.
2. Clifford Il. Harmon broke the Ameri-
can amateur long flight record this
own by remaining In the air hours
3lit minutes at Mincola.
5 Second international aviation meet
opened at Rheims, France. Aviator
Wachter killed by the fan OF his ma
chine.
D. Walter r. Brookins few SETS feet up
In the air at Atlantic City.
IL. Capt. G. S. Rolls. English aviator,
killed at Bournemouth in a Wright BIZ
plane.
AUGUST.
10. Radley, an English aviator. broke the
worlds speed fight record by flying a
mile In Al 2-5 seconds
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 hour Is minutes. an average
Of 4s1 miles an hour.
II. Is balloons started from Indiana polls
In an American championship race.
Balloon America II. landed near War
renton. Va. after q fight Of ~ hours.
10 Wsymann. an American. and George
Chavez. a Peruvian. attempted to fly
over the Alps. Chavez succeeded. but
was MORALLY hurt In landing.
y. Walter s. Brookins broke the cross
country distance record by flying from
Chicago to Springfield. ls6 miles. win
ming a $4,000 prize.
1. Aviator Wynmalen made a worlds
record for height by ascending 9lss
feet at Mourmelon, France
Is. Wellman's balloon America started on
its oversee flight at Atlantic City.
II. 10 balloons representing four nations.
: started from st. Louis In the internal
tlonal race for the Bennett cup and
347bo In prizes.
The dirgibls balloon Clement Bayard.
carrying people. sailed from Paris to
London in 8 hours
IL. Wellnan abandoned his airship $50
miles off Hatteras after sailing about
$40 miles in 70 hours: farthest eastern
point reached was 40 miles northeast
OF Nantucket.
10, Balloon America H., Post and Hawley
aerorauts, landed In tho province of
Quebec. 1855 miles from st. Louis. win
ming the Bennett cup for distance
% The international aviation meet OPEN
ed at Belmont park. New York
q. Ralph JOhnstone broke the American
aeroplane record for flight by ascend
Ing 1903 feet at Belmont park. heating
J. Armstrong Drexels record of 7.1O5.
a. Ralph tombstone assembled 1900 feet In
an aeroplane az Belmont park. (The
worlds record was 9ls6)
49, Claude Grahame-W White won the speed
race at Belmont park: time for G..
miles. 81 minutes II sccoNls.
20. j. Z. Moisant won the race from Bel
ment park to the statue of Liberty
and return. covering 81 miles in 3.
minutes 34s4 seconds
81. Ralph tombstone assembled 9,7l4 feet a,
Belmont park, establishing a worlds
record for altitude.
NOVEMBER.
H. Eugene p Ely In the Curtiss biplane
Hudson Filler few from the deck OF
the United States cruiser Birmingham
In Hampton Roads. to Willoaghby
beach. miles distant.
". Ralph tombstone. the aviator, Killed BY
the fall of his biplane at Denver: aged
IN.
q, j. Armstrong DreXel assembled 9.SH
feet In a monoplane at Philadelphia
breaking the worlds record.
DECEMBER.
.. Legagneux. French aviator. scared TO-
4ss feet at Pau. making a new worlds
record for altitude.
10. Capt. Bellanger, French army aviator
broke the worlds speed record by max
ing an average OF over So miles an hour
in a 100 mile flight from Vlncennes to
Nfourmelon.