How It Flies; or, The Conquest of the Air: The Story of Man's Endeavors to Fly and of the Inventions by Which He Has SucceededFerris, Richard
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How It Flies; or, The Conquest of the Air: The Story of Man's Endeavors to Fly and of the Inventions by Which He Has Succeeded
Ferris, Richard
Aeronautics
_August 29, 1910_--Breguet, with Breguet monoplane, makes a
flight at Lille, France, carrying five passengers, establishing
world’s record for passenger flight.
_August 29, 1910_--Morane, with Bleriot monoplane, at Havre,
beats world’s altitude record, reaches height of 7,166 feet.
_September 2, 1910_--Mlle. Hélène Dutrieux flies with a passenger
from Ostend to Bruges, Belgium, and back to Ostend. At Bruges she
circled around the famous belfry at a height of 1,300 feet, the
chimes pealing in honor of the feat--the most wonderful flight so
far accomplished by a woman.
_September 3, 1910_--M. Bielovucci lands at Bordeaux, France,
having made the trip from Paris, 366 miles, inside of 48 hours.
The actual time in the air was 7 hours 6 minutes. Strong head
winds blew him backward, forcing a landing three times on the
way. This is the fourth longest cross-country flight on record,
and makes the world’s record for sustained speed over a long
distance.
[Illustration: Mlle. Hélène Dutrieux.]
_September 4, 1910_--Morane, at Havre, rises to height of 8,469
feet.
_September 7, 1910_--Weyman, with Farman biplane, flies from Buc
in attempt to reach the top of the Puy-de-Dôme, lands at Volvic,
5 miles from his destination. Establishes world’s record for
flight with passenger, having covered 139 miles without landing.
_September 28, 1910_--Chavez crosses the Alps on a Bleriot
monoplane from Brigue, in Switzerland, to Domodossola, in Italy,
flying over the Simplon Pass.
_October 1, 1910_--Henri Wynmalen, of Holland, with a biplane at
Mourmelon, France, rises to a height of 9,121 feet, making a new
world’s record for altitude.
_October 4, 1910_--Maurice Tabuteau recrossed the Pyrenees, in
his return trip from San Sebastian to Biarritz, without accident
or marked incident.
_October 5, 1910_--Leon Morane, the winner of nearly all the
contests in the English meets for 1910, fell with his monoplane
at Boissy St. Leger, during a contest for the Michelin cup, and
was seriously injured.
_October 8, 1910_--Archibald Hoxsey, with a biplane, makes the
longest continuous aeroplane flight recorded in America, between
Springfield, Ill., and St. Louis, Mo.--104 miles.
_October 12, 1910_--Alfred Leblanc, with monoplane, at St. Louis,
flies 13 miles in 10 minutes, a speed of 78 miles per hour.
It was not officially recorded, as a part of the distance was
outside of the prescribed course.
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