The Dolores star., 1911-08-18
From 81. loUio TO CHICAGO m
HOURS AND -
MINUTES.
DISTANCE Of 2Se NILES
0NEAks AMERICAN RECORD ron
SINGLE oAv's AGRoPLAMG
eliohr.
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Chicago.-Aviator Atwood's flight
from st. Louis to Chicago establishes
. new American distance record for
single day.
Total distance. travelling In air line.
3os miles.
Actual flying time. S hours and 20
minutes
Time from start to finish. including
Delays for two stops, 10 hours and II
minutes.
Average altitude, 500 feet.
Beats by I3s miles best previous
American record Of las miles made by
himself in flying from Atlantic City to
Baltimore In July. 1911.
u he keeps up his first days rec
os4. Atwood will cover the l.46O miles
frQm st. Louis to Boston In seven
days, instead Of ten days. - planned.
By flying the 2s6 miles from St.
IOpis to Chicago with only two inter.
MEDIATE stops and In an actual flying
tine Of hours and A3 minutes, Harry
n Atwood OF Boston believes he has
81 q pace that will result In his
eGtablishins q new record on his flight
b. aeroplane from 81. Louis to New
York and Boston.
Atwood appears to have broken the
American record for . single days
nBht The best previous American
ropord was msde BY Atwood himself
w0sa be flew las miles fro0 Atlantic
City TO Baltimore July 10. 1911.
The best international cross-country
record 10 held by Andre Beaumont.
who In the Paris-Rome contest covered
40l miles in . single day. but In this
Instance he made three laniings.
while Atwood landed only twice be-
tween start and finish.
Atwood In . Burgess-Wright bi.
plane left q. Louis at sos .. m. He
landed In Chicago at G:l9 .. N His
total time between 81. Louis AM Chi.
cago. counting the delays occasloned
by the two stops. was ten hours 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 . time lowered unnotlced In
the distance over the skyscrapers.
Suddenly the crowd noticed the on
coming stranger and . voice shouted.
That's Atwood from 81. Louis
Immediately the vast assembl, was
In On uproar. Two or three II the
air men sailed out to meet Atwood.
Coming steadily onward Atwood
stesrsd over the aviation field and cir.
cled around II while several Q. the
machines listed In the meet followed
behind ~ IN escort.
Once around Atwood descended
srscefully. touching the ground for ths
first time since bis stop at Pontiac.
ILL.,. ninsty-one miles from Chicago.
Originally setting ten days NJ the
maximum time for completing the i.<S0
milss to Boston. Atwood believes by
tuS NV DC uos sCt uu WIZ " sOsS W
materially reduce that estimate. He
had not expected 10 reach Chicago 90
soon. but favorable weather and the
excellent condition Of his machine In.
ducsd him to shorten his stops.
His first stop. which was made st
Springfield. n.nety-eIsht miles from st.
Louis. after = two hour and twenty.
i've minute flight. vss 10 fulfill .
promise.
Instead Of remaining there Until .
.. n. be got away two hours earlier.
He vas scheduled TO stop NJ Bloom.
ingtoa. m. but the crowds assembled
u his proposed landing place there
we're % dense be could not find .
clear space to land In. 30 he swept
low and shaking bis head negatively
n the people. continued.
Al Poatiac he descended 10 rspisn.
ish bis supply Of gasoline and iubrL
eating Oh.
An that vas suffered BY the man
who thus ssiled through the cir q 4
speed greater than thst Of IN esprsss
train was . slight basa In his ears.
caused by the chussing Of bis snsins.
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