AERONAUTICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2635, 18 October 1909, Page 5

AERONAUTICES.

AN AMERICAN'S FLIGHT

United Piikss Association —Copyright. NEW YORK, October 15. Mr. H. Forbes aeroplaned from St. Louis, Missouri, to Richmond, Virginia, 731 miles, in 19| hours. [The performance reported above far exceeds that of any other aeroplanist. Mr. Hubert Latham,.. at the Rh'eims aviation meeting, broke all the world’s records for distance of flight. With his Antoinette monoplane—-the most beautiful in form of all the flying machines yet evolved —-he covered, according to the official figures, 96| miles in 2 hours 13. minutes. His speed averaged 43 1-3 miles' per hour, and at one point he raced with and passed an express train running at full speed beneath him. Mr. Wilbur Wright in December last, and M. Sommer and M. Paulhan recently, have remained in the air longer that Mr. Latham, but none of them has flown so> fast and so far. M. Paulhan’s flight of 2 hours 43 minutes on August 25 was at an average speed of 30i miles an hour. The Comte de Lambert on August 26 flew 72i miles in an hour and fifty-four minutes on his Wright biplane, his average speed being 38 miles an hour.]

DONCASTER MEETING PREVEN-

TED BY WEATHER

(Received October 17, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 16

Frequent showers and a high wind prevented the aviation meeting at Doncaster.