7:27–Milton Hook brick yards. Wind still. Aeroplane flying about 45
miles per hour. Passed lighthouse on west side of Hudson River.
7:32–Stockport. Twenty-four miles.
7:35–Hudson. Twenty-nine miles. Aeroplane flying high. Catskill Mountain
houses could be seen in the distance. Machine flying steady, water was
calm, small ripples along the surface.
7:36–Thirty miles. The Times special train passed through tunnel
parallel with 'plane.
7:40–2 Tower 81, New York Central Railroad. Greensdale ferry.
7:41–Catskill on west shore of Hudson River. Flying high.
7:44–Water trough in centre of track. Train equal with 'plane. Linlithgo
Station.
7:46–Germantown steamer dock. Aeroplane flying well.
7:48–Passed old steamboat on west side of the river. Germantown Station.
Aeroplane pitched when foot oil pump was used. Slight ripples on the
water.
7:51–*The Times* special train running parallel with aeroplane.
7:53–Tivoli. Forty-four miles. Aeroplane 1,000 feet high. Wind slightly
from the west.
7:58–Barrytown. Forty-nine miles. Aeroplane about 800 feet high,
descending a little lower until about 400 feet high.
8:03–Kingston. Brick yards on west shore of river. Mr. Curtiss is flying
very near The Times special train, within perhaps 100 yards.
8:04–Aeroplane turns toward west. Heads a little more into the wind and
crosses to the west side of the river at high speed.
8:05–Private yacht dock on east side of river. Aeroplane flying high
again.
8:06–Rhinecliff: Ferry. Fifty-four miles. Aeroplane has been flying one
hour and four minutes. Seems to be flying well.
8:08–Passing Tower 67, New York Central Railroad.
8:08–*The Times* special train passed through tunnel. Mr. Curtiss goes
back to west side of river, flying over ice-houses.
8:11–Passed lighthouse in middle of river. The aeroplane seems to be
rising and falling slowly on the varying currents of air. River is very
wide at this point. There are large stone crushers on the west shore,
and a large stone building of an institution on the bank of the river.
8:12–Staatsburg. Sixty miles.
8:16–Aeroplane now is passing over a large white house, some private
residence on the west shore of the river. Aeroplane is flying past
freight train on the West Shore Railroad.
8:18–Hyde Park Station. Sixty-four miles. The Times special train
passing water trough in centre of railway track. Passing Insane Asylum
at Poughkeepsie.
8:20–Passing upper portion of Poughkeepsie. 'Plane over river.
8:24–Passing Poughkeepsie Bridge. Aeroplane about 200 feet above it.
8:25 1/2–*The Times* special train goes through Poughkeepsie Station.
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