Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-21
Atwood Lands
At Lyons, n. Y.
AVIATOR COVERS 1o4 MILES IN
HIS SUNDAY FLIGHT.
C0NEY ISLE BY WEDNESDAY
Expects to Complete His Trip Then
Syracuse and Utica Today-To Al
tempt to Fly Across Country.

tempt to Fly Across Country.
Lyons, n. Y, Aug. 20-Nine hum
dred and thirty miles from his start
ing point, Harry n. Atwood, the young
Boston aviator, who is fast approach
ing the worlds long distance record in
his fight from ST Louis to New York,
landed in field in Lyons this after
noon, after flying 104 miles from Buf-
falo without stop.
104 Miles in Two Hours II Minutes.
Ascending in Buffalo at 3.20 D. m,
Atwood, who has flown seven days
WITHOUT mishap, circled to high al
titude, turned eastward and, hit by
brisk wind from the west, shot over
towns and villages at a speed which
kept train despatchers busy reporting
his progress. He alighted in Lyons
at 5.31 p. M, having covered the 104
miles in exactly two hours and eleven
minutes.
Four Miles in Three Minutes.
In one instance he went four miles
in three minutes, and on reaching
Rochester, SO miles from Buffalo, he
went around the outskirts Of the city
so fast that people standing on Office
buildings could not get more than q
glimpse of him.
A train which left Buffalo at exactly
the same time that Atwood did ran IN
sight of the aerop1ane almost all tfe
way to Rochester, but arrived there
eighteen minutes after the aviator had
passed around the city and had disap-
peared in the east. The train. how
ever, had made a stop en- route.
Hopes to Reach coney Wednesday.
Atwood, who is now 335 miles from
Npw York almost fhrsc-
fourths of his 1.265 mile fight. Ry
Tuesday night he hopes to reach AL
bany. and On Wednesday, in a one
day flight down the Hudson river, he
expects to break the worlds record for
distance and finish his trip, landing at
Coney Island in New York before sun
down. For the $50 miles already COW
cred he has been III the air actually
19 hours and 5S minutes.
Will Break Record Along Hudson.s
Atwood will have broken the worlds
long distance record when he flies
along the Hudson south of Albany at
a point between Greendale and Rhine
cliff At Rhinecliff he VIII have
flown LIT miles, or just thirteen miles
more than the present record Of f.1sf
miles, won by European aeronauts IN
fights over Germany. His flying time.
par to thirty days taken by the pres
ent record holders. At the finish the
Bostonian, in distance. will have brok-
en- the worlds record by 1o1 miles.
Passed Over 1s Towns and Villages.
Eigteen towns and villages saw the
aviator today as he swept over them
sometimes flying as low as $50 feet SO
he could read the names of the rail-
road stations as he passed. A few
miles out Of Buffalo, where he ascend
ed from a race track in a breeze of
the lake so strong that it carried HIN
around in circles of mile before he
could get his speed, Atwood struck out
railroad tracks. which are to fix his
course all the way to New York. Run
ming at his usual r1i1e-a~m minute clip.
he passed over towns at intervals OF
ten to fifteen minutes. Batavia, 81
miles from Buffalo, reported him there
3S minutes after his start.
Gasoline Gave Out at Lyons.
It was between East Jalmyra and
Newark that he made the best record
eed time of the day, covering the four
miles between these two points In
three minutes. Getting in toward Ly-
ons, Atwood found he had not sum
cient gasoline to carry him on 20
Syracuse, so he picked out a clear field
near the town and glided down to the
ground.
Dust in Air at Great Height.
"The strangest feature OF my trip
today said Atwood, was that 7 ran
into clouds of dust. Not far out Of
Buffali l found the air, eveo at a great
filed with fine grains Of sand.
I steered into all directions. high and
low, to avoid it, but It was until T
reached Batavia that 7 found the air
fine. Nearing Rochester ! decided not
to fly over the city. but to go around
ii, as the smoke there appeared from
a distance to be likely 10 confuse me-"