THE BOSTON HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1910. 



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NEW AVIATION 

 RECORDS_MADE| 



Johnstone, Flying Nearly 98 

 Miles, Shatters Two 

 American Marks. 



WORLD'S ACCURACY FIGURE. 



Grahame-White Again Soars to 

 Light, Clipping His Own j 

 Time by 6m. 2-5s. 



Ralph Johnstone, the Wright pupil, 

 continued yesterday the steady advance 

 he had made the last two days at the 

 Harvard-Boston aviation meet by eBtab- 

 lishing a new world's record for accu- 

 racy In alighting on skids, and breaking 

 the American records for duration and 

 distance. 



Saturday Johnstone had come within 

 a few seconds of breaking the Ameri- 

 can duration record of 2h. 3m. 30s., 

 made by Clifford B. Harmon, the New 

 Tork amateur. Yesterday he exceeded 

 Harmon's record lh. 2m. 10s.. remaining 

 In the air 3h. Sm. 40s. He also set up 

 a new American mark for distance In 

 contlnuuous flight by covering nearly 

 98 miles. 



He completed his day's performance 

 by alighting within 5ft. 41n. of the centre 

 of the 100-ft. circle, and bettering the 

 world's mark of 12ft. lln. in the accura- 

 cy contest, made hy his team mate, 

 Walter Brookins, Saturday. 



White Sure of $10,000 Prize. 



While Grahame-Whlte made sure 

 of the $10,000 prise for the fastest 

 time over the Boston light course by 

 covering the 33 miles at a speed of 

 nearly 60 miles an hour, the Wright 

 aviators had maintained their lead at 

 the close of the day in the events In 

 which they are particularly inter- 

 ested — distance, duration and alti- 

 tude. 



Taciturn and imperturbable, as Is 

 his wont. Wilbur Wright had directed 

 the work of his representatives In 

 these events. He was not to be hur- 

 ried by the spectacular work of the 

 Englishman, who threatened to make 

 a sweep of all the events, after the 

 first few days of the meeting, and he 

 has gone on quietly and consistently 

 laying the way for what has now be- 

 come an Inevitable Wright victory in 

 the events that typify reliability 

 rather than speed. 



By his performance yesterday, 

 Grahame-Whtto established himself in 

 an unassailable position in the speed 

 event, since he proved that it was im- 

 nosBlble for Glenn Curtiss. who had 



been recognized as his only rival, to 

 surpass his time for speed over the 

 closed circuit or IB the Boston light 

 contest. 



There had been some hope that the 

 new engine Curtiss tried out yesterday 

 might serve a* a laEt resort for the 

 Americans in the speed contests, but 

 this was dispelled when the English- 

 man bettered the time of Curtiss in the 

 three laps by a wide margin and set a 

 pace to the light and back which the 

 American admits he has no chance of 

 following. | 

 ntfle Practice in Air. j 

 Throughout, (he day, was one of sur- 

 prises and innovations. In the morft- 

 ing Lieut, Ficiel began target practice 

 with the regulation army rifle from 

 Charles Foster Willard's biplane, and 

 gave a creditable exhibition of shoot- 

 ing while travelling at a high speed, 

 that was followed With a close atten- ', 

 tlon and favorable comment on the part j 

 of the army and navy experts studying 

 the military aspect of the aeroplane. 



In the afternoon Wilbur Wright 

 mounted the seat of one of his machines 

 beside Walter Brookins, and gave a sur- 

 prising exhibition in the bomb-dropping 

 contest. He continued his work of Sat- 

 urday when he scored a bullseye at the 

 first and only shot he made hy main" 

 tainlng the hest average score during 

 the meet, with 77 points in 37 trials 



Even In regard to speed the Wright 

 machine driven by Johnstone gave a 

 belter account, of itself than formerly^ 

 For a machine from which the Day- 

 ton aviator admits he does not expect] 

 much In the way of fast performances, 

 the Wright flier showed some sur-' 

 prising bursts of speed during the 

 afternoon, at one time easily over- 

 taking Grahame-Whlte's Farman In 

 the duration event. 



Interest in the amateur events began 

 in earnest In the morning, when Clif- 

 ford B. Harmon took the air In Gra- 

 hame-Whlte's biplane. His work, in all 

 the events for the amateurs makes It 

 certain that the majority of the prizes, 

 and in particular the Harvard trophy 

 for bomb dropping, will be his. 



! WHITE OPERATES SKY LINER. 



Carries np Three Passengers, Get- 

 ting $500 Per, Says Report. 



Grahame- White opened the after- 

 noon performance at the aviation 

 meet by earning money. He carried 

 three passengers around the course, 

 and If report may be credited, made 

 $1500 in less than half an hour his 

 charge of $500 per head being set 

 in early days of the meet. Across 

 the Atlantic he has received as mucn 

 as $600 from a nobleman who sought 

 privilege of communing briefly with 

 ♦he birds. 



Those who accompanied the Briton 

 yesterday were G. B. Fuller of 

 Worcester, A. B. Lambert, president 

 of the St. Louis Aero Club, and Ar- 

 thur Hlnchcliffe- of Boston. Mr. Lam- 

 bert was granted a prolonged session 

 his time in the air being 9m. 37 3-5a' 

 While Grahame-Whlte was fattening 

 his purse and providing entertain- 

 ment tor his passengers and the 

 wd, he made detours of the 

 ...„.rshes and explored the reaches of 

 the Neponset river, much to the ad- 

 miration of the watchers fully a mile 

 outside the grounds 



Alighting with Mr. Hlnchcliffe, the 

 British sky-scraper struck the fieM 

 easily near the little white flag desig- 

 nating the centre of the plot laid out 

 for accuracy tests. The Farman bi- 

 plane rolled up to the flag, and one 

 °i . Jf he £i? crushed the banner out I 

 of sight. The crowd within the en- 



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closure believed the air man had made 

 a bullseye and established a world 

 record, but it was sfiortlv announced 

 that the test was void as the biolane i 

 had alighted outside the 100-foot I 

 circle. But the crowd cheered itself 

 almost: into paroxysms and Grahame- I 

 White bowed an acknowledgment as 

 best he could, for the aviator is both- 

 ered with a stiff neck. 



Does Not Mind Illness. 

 Last Saturday, it appears, he caught I 

 cold when worming himself and the hi- ! 

 plane upward toward the mile mark. 

 He breasted a cold current ladenod I 

 with brine from off the sea, and swollen | 

 tonsils resulted. Notwithstanding the 

 pain that might have sent other men 

 under the coverlets, the aviator muffled 

 his neck In a swathing of wool that 

 poked up under his ears and compelled 

 him to look straight ahead unless he 

 turned his body, and manfully stuck 

 to the game. Referring to the pain 

 m his neck and his ludicrous appearand, 

 Grahame-White blamed them on "beifae. 

 ly easterly winds." 



Nothing was in evidence so far as 

 machine flying was concerned, for some 

 little time after the Briton and Mr 

 Hinchclilfe alighted, and the crowd fid- 

 geted. Somebody said the Harvard No 

 1 aeroplane would be brought out to 



exhibit its 

 the rumor 

 But the a 

 has been n 

 Squantum 

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 ing to mail 



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itnmnhiles' ana the, 

 J tew vacant seals. 

 led to surge down 

 station, ana the ca- 

 :ars that meandered 

 s the landscape had 

 — temporarily because 

 track had been monopolized by 

 traffic. Fully 15,000 persons were 

 obliged to walk from the railroiJAl sta- 

 tion to the grounds, a distance of about 

 two miles, because transportation fa- 

 cilities were inadequate. 



Johnstone Out for Long Flight. 

 A Wright biplane was brought out to 

 the starting track a few minutes after 

 ' lock, and it was announced that 



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curacy. This aviator, through ' 

 I f mistake in reading his watch, failed 

 to establish an American record for 

 duration last Saturday/ when he under- 

 took to outdo the feat of Harmon, the 

 millionaire amateur, at Mineola, N. Y., 

 who had motored above the earth 2h. 

 om. 30s. This latest attempt to beat the 

 Harmon record was received with ap- 

 plause from the spectators, because it 

 thrills monotony and promised 



t „ C i a< l lx l stl "? et clothes, and ankles pro- 

 tected by leather gaiters, Johnstone 

 took the air at 3:20 o'clock. The biplane 

 was almost hidden by the cloud of 

 dust whirled up by the swash of pro- 

 peller and exhaust. The field Is getting 

 dry and pretty thoroughly cut up by 

 the machines that scar Its surface 

 The bandmaster saw a . chance ' for a 

 joke at Johnstone's exm- 

 biplane was clear of the ground and he 

 piped up with ■'Wearing of the Green." 

 The selection was quite appropriate, for 

 on the port side of the biplane snipped 

 a green flag, while the stars and stripes 

 occupied a conspicuous place on the 



flight aro 

 the wate 

 ond lap, 



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nade 



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