AERONAUTICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2612, 21 September 1909, Page 5

AERONAUTICS.

ANOTHER RECORD ESTABLISHED

United Pueos Association —Copyright (Received September 20, 11.40 .p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 20.

Orville Wright occupied 96 minutes in an aeroplane flight with a passenger, thereby establisliing a record.

A SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN

Mr. Glen H. Curtis, who has succeeded in obtaining the aeroplane speed records at Rheims and Brescia, recently carried out successful experiments on Hampstead Plain, Long Island, New York. On one day he made two ascents. The first time he remained in tho air 12 minutes, coming down to get breakfast and to escape a fog. The second time he remained in the air 31 minutes, and said he could have remained for an indefinite- period. He explained that he was tired, and came down to take a rest. The course _ was three miles long, and as the aviator flew round and round he seemed to have his aeroplane under perfect control. Indeed, Mr. Curtis said that he handled his machine as easily as he could handle an automobile. After his second flight he said: I made the longest flight accomplished in America this year. I flew 16 miles, and perhaps a little more. I could have remained in the air much longer. Mv machinery was running fine, and the airship responded for every manoeuvre. My principal object now is to make long flights, so that I may he able to win the grand prize for the international contest to be held m France in a couple of months. If my machine behaves as it did to-day 1 have not the least doubt that I shall be the winner.” Mr. Curtis’ -recent flights (writes the New York correspondent of the London “Daily Telegraph”) have somewhat pul the Wrights into the shade.