Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-02-18

quest of the mir lifted him nloft for
the heeting period of iifty-nine sec
onds. Eighteen years later he SCARED
eagle-like through space for twenty
six and one-thlrd hours.
When Wilbur Wright, IN heavier
than-alr machine, flew $50 feet at
Kitty Hawk OH December II. 1903, the
feat was pronounced one of the mar
vels Of the century. The whole world
rang with the accomplishment.
Recently IL monoplane. piloted by
Edward Stinson. accompanied by
Lloyd Bertaud, mechanic. finished Il
continuous flight of 20 hours 10
"a span Of less than minute had been
stretched to more than II day and a
night. Yet the marvellous perform
ance at MIneola is heralded rs simply
the breaking Of worlds endurance
flight in aviation.
Many Lives Sacrificed.
While the advance In the science of
flying has been both rapid and star
Ting. when the period involved is con
sldered, II careful analysis shows that
the progress came not by leaps and
bounds, but rather through hundreds
of experiments. sacrificed lives and de
termination seldom devoted to similar
projects.
Five years after Wright's initial
flight he still held the worlds record
m lie -
hours 20 minutes and % seconds at
Anvours, France. Two years before
that, A. Santos Dumont covered 100
feet In the first flight ever made In
Europe. In 1909 Henry Farman had
gained the flying honors for France
with a flight of 1877 miles In hours
minutes and % seconds.
just decade after Wright had
made his first "hop or national and
international flying races for famous
trophies were the vogue In both
Europe and America. Then came the
war, and the sporting side of aviation
gave way to the more serious combat
of the air. with hundreds of aviatorS
killing and being killed In a realm
foreign 10 mankind but few years
before.
Before the transition, however, the
feats OF the Wriglts, Farinan. Santos
Dumont and the other pioneers Of the
plane had ceased To be Impressive,
Flying had passed 10 the compettiv,
plane with records for speed, endur
al tto
being pushed upward annually. Sevc
wears after Wright's 59-second flight
G. Tourney held the endurance RECORD
with eleven hours Of continuous flying
At the close of 1914 this record haC
been almost doubled. for W Land
mann maintained u continuous flight
of II hours IS minutes and 10 seconds
In Germany. between June 26 and -
of that year. The records also show
that l.. Noel of England flew for NOR,
than 10 minutes with nine passengers
and fifteen passengers had been car
ried 10 height of nearly thousnn,
feet by the Russian aviator Sykorsky
S,inson added = hours and 2s see
onds To the worlds best previous en-.
DURANGO record previously held by
Broussoutrut and Bernard as the re-
suit OF a flight made in France Il year
ago last June. y span of -four and a
half hours was thus added by Stinson
10 the record made ny Landmann some
seven years ago.
Flying NJ speed of ninety-hve
miles an hour. they had battled with n
SnowStorm while Swimming over the
earth nj a height If less than 100 feet,
with cold below zero, with seventy
mile gale. ana with hot singing oil
that splaShed in their faces and al
most blinded them.
Fly $500 Miles
While no official record was kept Of
the distance town by the Americans,
competent observers estimated that
their plane had covered approximately
:. 800 miles In distance covered Stin-
son and Bertaud undoubtedly sur
passed all former records. and more
than equaied the transatlantic flight
Of 800 miles made by late Capt. Sir
John Alcock and Lieut.. Arthur W.
Brown from ST. Johns. Newfoundland,
to Clifdcn. Ireland.
The endurance flight came as a
lifting climax To the achievement of
American aviation in 1927, when four
worlds records were made by Yankee
avlators. The other three were:
An altitude and efficiency record for
dying boats made when Looming
monoplane reached 1880 feet with
four passengers on August i6.
An altitude record made by Lieut..
j. A. McCreedy of the army air ser
vice. who plotted an alrplane 10 the
height Of 81. 500 feet nj Dayton, Ohio
on September -. breaking the pre-.
yious mark OF 33.1ii feet set by Nal
Rudolph Schroeder.
A speed record for closed course In
he Pulitzer trophy race was made by
BERT AcOsia. who drove Curiiss navy
acer nj an average speed OF 1Ii..
Hes m hnui tor 20 miles AT Omaha