AEROPLANE TRIUMPH

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 309, 23 September 1908, Page 7

AEROPLANE TRIUMPH

BY WILBUR WRIGHT. FORTY-ONE MILES IN 91 MINUTES. " NO HITCH." (bt telegraph—rßsss association— copieiobt.) (Rec. September 22, 9.15 p.m.) Berne, September 22. Mr. Wilbur Wright—who has been carrying out aeroplane trials in France while his brother, Mr. 'Orville Wright, carried out in America the trials that led to the rccent accident—has had another successful flight, beating all aeroplane records. In a flight at Le Mans, Mr. Wilbur' Wright covered 66 kilometres 600 metres (41 miles 676 yards) in 91 minutes 25 seconds, which is a record, both as regards distance and time, for an aeroplane flight. ~ The motor worked without a. hitch. The aeroplano roso to an elevation of over a hundred feet. When it descended, the crowds cheered frantically. The American Ambassador to France (Mr. Henry "White), in' congratulating Mr. Wright, remarked: "America may well be proud of you." A TWO-MEN MACHINE. - Mr. Wilbur Wright has beaten by 3 miles and 23 minutes his flight of 38 miles in 62 minutes cabled on September 10. The "Daily Mail" has a prize of ,£IO,OOO waiting for the aeroplauist who flies from London to Manchester (a distance, roughly, of 150 miles) in 24 hours, with only two stops for petrol. One of the latest accounts of the machine with which Mr. Wilbur Wright is flying in France states: "Tho aeroplane is constructed entirely of wood, even to its propellers, and consists of two planes of canvas stretched upon wooden frames, each plane being 41ft. in length by 66ft. broad. In the between the planes, is a seat for the pilot, who has the' motor, on his right and on his left the compensating weight of a passenger. Mr. Wright's machine, like Mr. Farman's, flies broadways." The same writer adds: "Jlr. Wright mounts guard day and. night ovor his aeroplane witli the greatest vigilance. Nevertheless, he allowed me to enter the shed. The machine , immediately strikes one as being of extraordinary solidity when compared with the light structures of Farman and Delagrange. It lias only a 29-h.p. motor. Yet Mr. Wright has undertaken to fly thirty miles in a single stretch, carrying with him a second man, or, if nobody will go with him, an equivalent weight."