_August 27, 1909_--Latham, with monoplane, at Rheims, flies to an altitude of 508 feet. (With this record he won first prize for altitude.) _August 27, 1909_--Delagrange, with monoplane, at Rheims, flies 31 miles. (With this record he won the eighth prize for duration of flight.) _August 27, 1909_--Sommer, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 37 miles. He won the seventh prize for distance. _August 27, 1909_--Tissandier, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 69 miles. (This record won for him the sixth prize for distance.) _August 27, 1909_--Lefebvre, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 12.4 miles in 20 minutes and 47 seconds, exhibiting great daring and skill. (He was fined for “recklessness.”) _August 27, 1909_--Bleriot, with monoplane, at Rheims, flies 25 miles in 41 minutes. (This record won for him the ninth prize for distance flown.) _August 28, 1909_--Lefebvre, with biplane, at Rheims, makes a spectacular flight for 11 minutes with one passenger. _August 28, 1909_--Curtiss, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 12.4 miles in 15 minutes and 56 seconds, winning the Gordon Bennett cup. _August 28, 1909_--Bleriot, with monoplane, at Rheims, flies 6.2 miles in 7 minutes and 48 seconds. (With this record he won the first prize for speed over course of 10 kilometres.) _August 29, 1909_--Farman, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 6.2 miles with two passengers, in 10 minutes and 30 seconds, winning a prize. _August 29. 1909--Curtiss, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 18.6 miles in 23 minutes and 30 seconds. (With this record he won the first prize for speed over course of 30 kilometres.) _August 29, 1909_--Curtiss, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 6.2 miles in 7 minutes and 51 seconds, winning the second prize for speed over course of 10 kilometres. _August 29, 1909_--Rougier, with biplane, at Rheims, rises to a height of 180 feet, winning the fourth prize for altitude. _August 29, 1909_--E. Bunau-Varilla, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 18.6 miles in 38 minutes and 31 seconds. (With this record he won the eighth prize for speed over course of 30 kilometres.) _August 29, 1909_--Orville Wright, with biplane, at Berlin, makes several short flights. _August 29, 1909_--S. F. Cody, with biplane, at Aldershot, flies 10 miles with one passenger. _September 4, 1909_--Orville Wright, with biplane, at Berlin, flies for 55 minutes. _September 6, 1909_--Sommer, with biplane, at Nancy, France, flies 25 miles in 35 minutes. He takes up a number of passengers; one at a time. _September 7, 1909_--Lefebvre, with biplane, at Juvissy, is killed by the breaking of his machine in the air after he had flown 1,800 feet. _September 8, 1909_--Orville Wright, with biplane, at Berlin, flies 17 minutes with one passenger--Captain Hildebrandt.