AEROPLANING.
NEW YORK TO PHILADELPHIA AND BACK. By Telegraph—Pross Association—Copyright. (Rec, June 14, 5.15 p.m.) New York, June 14. Mr. Hamilton, an aeroplanist, started at 7.35 o'clock in the morning from the New York "Times" Office on a flight to Philadelphia and back. Ho passed Trenton at 8.50 a.m. at' an altitude of fiO'l feet, and landed at Philadelphia at 9.2R a.m. Ho started on the return at 11.30 a.m., passed Trenton at 12.6 p.m., and landed' twenty miles from New York with his engines disabled. REPAIRED ENGINES AND WON. (Rec. June 14, 10.30 ■ p.m.) New York, June 14. Mr. Hamilton repaired his aeroplane, re-started at 0 o'clock, and landed at Governor's Island at 6.40 p.m.,' winning .£2OOO. . MONOPLANE PASSENGER RECORD. PATJLHAN'S HEIGHT BEATEN. (Rec. June 14, 9.15 p.m.) Paris, June 14. SI. Morane, carrying a passenger in a Bleriot machine at Tonrs, covered 52 miles in 'JO 'minutes, a monoplane record. New York, June 14.. Walter Brookins, at Indinnopolis, ascended to an altitude of 4354 feet in a Wright biplane, a world's record for height. [The instruments carried by St. Paul- [ han when ho made his high flight at Los I Angeles indicated 4600 ft., but instruments on the earth indicated something over 4000 ft.]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 843, 15 June 1910, Page 5
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