AEROPLANING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 626, 4 October 1909, Page 7

AEROPLANING.

,■• MR. brtVILLE GERMANY. J •■"; . '■■'■'- NEW;ALTITIJ])B RECOIiiD 1 . %. '.'.v'IBy ; TelttfrtiDh.'*Preia "Aeeoclatiofti—Oubyrlcbt.l : ■■'■'' ~; ■(Roo.;:Octbb'er : 5.6:p^m.j. : ■,';":: - ■'.•/■ ' : -:/"■.■:■: ' .London, October i ■■'•"Mr. Oryille'.Wright, aerqplaking at Potsdami ;Germany,,.ieochod,;a. height'iPt,7oo ; !fce't.',;.-;_:, ■' this is a world's record for altitude, eclipsing- M.,,Rougier's, Wsft;. .flight,at Brescia.; '. ' AEEOPLANE PACTOKT'IN. STDNET;;/ ' :'.-■'■ .- .. : T .'■■: -, ~ Sydney, October.2. ■ An neroplano fnctory hag been started.in Sydney'. Various ■ models, including eight warkites, are under'construction: ■ '■ ' ■ i ', ; ' RECENT RECORDS,' • ',< ■ Probably in view of the increasing competition: of rivals, and particularly'of ■ their feflowAnverican, Mn Curties (Who carried; off. the three speed" contests >at Hheims), tho Wrights -wo . now. '.'.reasserting, themselves. , prTille Wright (whose \rork las); year was done in America),is now in Europe; and 'Wilbur' Wright, who flew witlvsubh'success in France, is now.in America. '; ■ ■''•;'"' '■• :'•■■. ■ V The,recent results of'theih'-aotlvity incltido a .record two-men .flight: of Oβ minutee ' (by' Orvillo Wright and a passenger), i» 48 njiles an hour-flyjound the New York statue of-Liberty by Wilbur Wright, arid tho altitude record cabled to-day, : Curtiss's time, (is cabled, for the race' round the Rheims circuit (10 kilometres)), was approximately 48 miles an hour, ;e6 that, for speed, Wright and' Curtiss are, , on this showing, about equal... About thoVmiddlo of'last; mpnthi Santos, pumontiusinjf a comparatively small oeroplanei'iwas roportnd to have covered, near, Paris, five, miles : across country, in flvo minutes. :. > ■■■■ ■ ■ .■ - '■■■' "- / •'. At Rhoims,' Mr. Hubert Latham, mononlanist, made an altitude record of 610 ft. At, Brescia, J[. Roupier reached a. height of 645 ft.' 'Now Orvillo Wright has reached 700 ft*. ■■~ •