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
_October 14, 1910_--Grahame-White flies from the Bennings
Race Track 6 miles across the Potomac River to the Capitol at
Washington, circles the dome, and then circles the Washington
Monument, and finally alights with precision in Executive Street,
between the Executive Offices and the building of the State,
Army, and Navy Departments. After a brief call, he rose from the
narrow street--but 20 feet wider than his biplane--and returned
to the race track without untoward incident.
_October 16, 1910_--Wynmalen flies from Paris to Brussels, and
returns, with one passenger, within the elapsed time of 27 hours
50 minutes, winning two prizes amounting to $35,000. The distance
is 350 miles, and the actual time in the air was 15 hours 38
minutes.
_October 25, 1910_--J. Armstrong Drexel, with monoplane, at
Belmont Park, L. I., rises to height of 7,105 feet, breaking
previous records, and surpassing his own record of 6,600 feet,
made at Lanark, Scotland.
_October 26, 1910_--Ralph Johnstone, in biplane, at Belmont
Park, rises to the height of 7,313 feet, through sleet and snow,
breaking the new American record made by Drexel the day before.
_October 27, 1910_--Johnstone, with biplane, at Belmont Park,
rises to height of 8,471 feet, surpassing his own record of the
day before and establishing a new American record. The feat was
performed in a gale blowing nearly 60 miles per hour, and the
aviator was carried 55 miles away from his starting point before
he landed.
_October 28, 1910_--Tabuteau, with biplane, at Etampes, France,
makes a new world’s endurance record of 6 hours’ continuous
flight, covering a distance of 289 miles.
_October 29, 1910_--Grahame-White, with monoplane, at Belmont
Park, wins the International speed race over the distance of 62.1
miles, in 1 hour 1 minute 4⅗ seconds.
_October 29, 1910_--Leblanc, with monoplane, at Belmont Park,
makes a new world’s record for speed, reaching 70 miles per hour
during the International speed race. Through a lack of fuel he
lost the race to Grahame-White, after covering 59 miles in 52
minutes.
_October 30, 1910_--John B. Moisant, with monoplane, wins the
race from Belmont Park around the Statue of Liberty in New York
harbor, and the prize of $10,000. The distance is about 34 miles,
and Moisant covered it in 34 minutes 39 seconds.
_October 30, 1910_--James Radley, with monoplane, at Belmont
Park, wins the cross-country flight of 20 miles in 20 minutes 5
seconds.
_October 31, 1910_--Johnstone, with biplane, at Belmont Park,
rises to a height of 9,714 feet, breaking the previous world’s
record, made by Wynmalen on October 1.
_October 31, 1910_--Drexel, with monoplane, racing for altitude
with Johnstone, reaches a height of 8,370 feet.
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