Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-19
STANDS STILL IN AIR
0rviIIe Wright MotionIess AIoft
for Five Seconds.
GLIDING RECORDS BROKEN
Aviator Makes Two Flights Of Min.
ute and Quarter Each.
FINAL TRIP IS SPECTACULAR
Airman Loses Control Of Aero,
Which Falls Fourteen Feet
and Is Wrecked.
GLIDING RECORDS BROKEN
FINAL TRIP IS SPECTACULAR

MANTEO, n. c., October 19-Orville
Wright twice broke the worlds gliding
record yesterday, remaining aloft in his
machine on each occasion for one minute
and fifteen seconds. On the last of his
five flights into the teeth Of thirty-five-
mile wind he fell with the glider a dis
tance of fourteen feet. but was unhurt.
The machine was smashed.
In the second flight the glider for the
first time since the trials began stood
horizontal and stationary for five seconds
at an elevation of sixty feet Finally, it
moved forward and downward and came
to the ground 200 feet to the north This
was the best flight of the day.
Mr.. Wright, despite the damage to the
machine, was delighted last night He
felt that the experiments demonstrated
his ability to remain in the air without
the aid of motor just as soon as certain
alterations are made in the construction
of the supporting agency.
Pleased at Record Made.
Il am particularly pleased to have
broken the worlds record by three Sec
onds,' he said. THE main trouble was
that the vertical rudder in front was too
much for the rudder behind and this in
terfered with the control. This defect
will be remedied when the glider is re-
paired, and the work will be done In time
Tor the next blow
The final flight was spectacular Wright
lost control of the aeroplane with the
result that the fall completely wrecked
both wings on the right side. When the
machine struck the ground 1t turned
turtle, and the aviator was hurled a con-
siderable distance.
When the Wright party arose yesterday
morning a heavy ram was driving across
the sand dunes, and it was not until late
IN the afternoon that flights were at
tempted.
An Isolated Spot.
KITTY HAWK, y. c., October 10
Kill Devil sand hill is not merely the
back door of the universe. 1t is twelve
miles beyond the ultimate jumping off
place. If the Wright brothers had been
seeking merely seclusion and not for that
combined with favorable conditions for
their early flying machine experiments,
they could not have found 1t better any-
where east of the Mississippi unless per
maps they had gone into the heart of the
everglades.
Take the way Of reaching the spot that
Will be familiar to Washingtonians. You
take the boat at Washington and 60 to
Norfolk. Then you are Just at the begin
ming of sorrows. From the boat LANDING
You go across the town and take the Nor
folk and Southern road that runs down
into southeastern Virginia and northeast
ern North Carolina. A run Of fifty miles
brings You to Elizabeth City. This is a
town of 10000 population on the Pasquo-
tank river, and does the largest CONNER
cial business In that part of North Caro-
lima.
At Elizabeth City you begin to get with
in hailing distance Of the XIII Devil ter
ritory. There is a boat that runs be-
tween Elizabeth City and Manteo, accent
on the first syllable, please, In Albermarle
sound. There is about sixteen miles Of
river and twenty-five miles Of sound to be-
crossed before you reach Manteo 1t takes
little over 1--WE hours to do it. The
boat on the route used to be schooner,
about sixty feet long, but she had the
mast amputated and gasoline motor in
stalled. She is now a power boat and
with the aid of a stay sail and a favorine
wind can make almost eight miles an
hour :