AIRMEN'S EXPLOITS
During, tho Jolmunisthal (Germany) autumn aviation week at Iho cud of September tho airmail Subbatnig, who carried three nassougcrs, attained an altiludo of ' (or noarlv two miles), which is claimed as a now world's record for a machine with throe passengers. The provn'fis altitude record for an airman is S.'oOOt't attained bv Mr Hawker, at Brookhmds, in ,'hilv. 'I lie airman I'orymnn, at; Bur, Jlow by himself to a height 0 f KJ.SOOi't, which is move than three and a-ha If .miles. On October 2 Grahanm-Whito.'s biplane of 120 b.p., which weiyrhs, without pilot and passengers, Jl.siJUlb. carried tho record number of 10 passengers at Hendon. _ 3!r Noel was tho. pilot, and tho machine was in the air LOinin J7so<\ maintaining; an altitude, after a graceful ascent, of GOflft. 'The aggregate weight of iho passengers and pilot'was l..'Lllh, in addition to which "l-lfiib of petrol and i'oli) of lubricating oil woco carried. The. machine was 'only constructed to carry five people.
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Evening Star, Issue 15343, 18 November 1913, Page 5
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163AIRMEN'S EXPLOITS Evening Star, Issue 15343, 18 November 1913, Page 5
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