The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-12-31
LITTLE FAgTg0k
AIRSHIP RECORDS
First Time Wright Went
Up He Remained About
One Minute


NEW YORK, Dec. II. = Man 5
first feeble tlutter in his conquest
OF the air lifted him alOft for the
fleeting period OF SO seconds. Eigh-
teen years later he SCARED eagle
like through space for 70 ana one
third hours.
When Wilbur Wright. in Il heav-
Ter than air machine, flew $50 feet
at Kitty Hawk in December. 1908,
the feat was pronounced one of the
marvels Of the century. The
whole world rang with the accom-
plishment
Yesterday monoplane, piloted
by Edward Stinson, accompanied
by Lloyd Bertaud, Il mechanic, fin.
ished q continuous flight OF Is
hours 10 minutes and 80 seconds.
In Is years d space less than mill
ute had been stretched to mora than
a day and night, through the mar
vel performances Al Mineola.
While the advance In the science
OF flying has been both rapid and
startling. when the period involved
is considered. a careful analysis
shows tha, the progress came not
by leaps and bounds. but rather
through hundreds OF experiments.
sacrificed lives and determination
seldom devoted to similar projects.
Five years after WTi.hi.s iniila.
flight. he still held the world ;
record with - miles made N tW"
hours. 20 minutes Is seconds at
Ancours. France. TWO years before
that 4. Santos DUmout covered go
feet in the first flight ever made in
Europe. In 1909. HIenr! Farman
had gained the flying hOnorS for
France with flight Of l37 miles in
four hours, six minutes and 70 sec
ouds.
Just a decade after Wright had
made his first hop of national
and international flying races 10
famous trophies were the vogue in
both Europe and Amcrirn. Then
came the war and the sporting side
of aviation gave way to the more
serious combat OF the air.
Before transition. however, the
feats OF the Wrights. Farman. So.
tos Dumant and other pioneers Of
the plane had ceased to be impress
sive. Flying had passed 10 the com
petitiye point with records for en-
lurancc. altitude and passenger
carrying being pushed upward an
nuaIlv Seven years after Wright )
50 second flight G. Tourney held the
endurance record with II hours Of
continuous flying.
At the close OF 1911 this record
had been almost doubled, for w.
Landmann maintained a continuous
flight OF II hours. IS minutes, Is
seconds IN Germany between June
IS and - OF that year. The records
ALSO show that L. Noel OF England,
flew for more than 10 minutes with
nine passengers and 10 passengers
had been carried to a height Of
nearly 4 thousand feet By the Rus
sian aviator Sykursky.
Stinson Yesterday added two
hours and IS seconds TO the world 5
best previous endurance record pre-
viousIy held by BroussOutrat ana
Bernard as the result of a flight
made in France year ago last
June \ span Of four and a half
hours WAS tnuS uUtet ~ HtthSS''
to the record made by Landmann
some seven years ago.
Flying at n speed of % miles an
hour they had batticd with snow
storm while Swimming over the
earth at a height OF less than 100
feet. with cold below zero, with 4
10 mile gale and with hut singing
oil that splashed in their faces and
almost blinded them. No record
was kept OF the distance flown. In
distance covered Stinson undoubt-
cdly surpassed all former records
and more than equalled the trans
Atlantic flight OF 1850 miles made
Ibv the late Captain Sir John Al
cock and Lieut.. Arthur W, Brown
from St. Johns to Clifdcn. Ireland.