HIGH AEROPLANING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14284, 26 August 1910, Page 6

HIGH AEROPLANING.

AMONG TJiK (. i.nl'DS. »">!)•=■. .-,'.' 111.-. ir.M.o s<m.;nhr>u;,l «i..'i'.- at. th» grrat aviation iv»oli a:-. Klinm*. Oil, ther« iv-.-e Jo aeroplanes m LV--nir ;.r. o no turn?i. t-.-as performed by Mv. HnliPli L.TTli:ini vlli., ill ins \lilninnlt.-v innn'ipl:..!... i ore-lied a. height r.-«i> l.v tli.i barometer n.tt.nrlwd 10 liis neck, as 1 l-.'il metres (!tV>sf(.J, and by I b.official height-takers, who could not. see. t lii- airman lor long periods, during « liirli ho disappeared in the clouds, at loSl) metres i-t.jL?-3i'L.). Mr Latham thus beat the official world's record of VIZ', metres (4003u) established by M. Pattlliain at Los Angeles. Mr. Latham, rose as ('veiling was falling, and rapidly mounted aloft, m a. wind which, although it, Jiad dropped somewhat since the morning, was still gusty, l-'or .smile lime he hovered over the track, rising higher and higher, till suddenly, like an arrow. Mi.nine, in his ISleriot, .shut, up to contest the event •with him. In two and a. half minutes the Bleriot was over lUOOi't. up, and climbing steadily, until .it was a tiny clot ay.ani.st. the grey iinuament. Mr Latham continued circling aloft, while far below monoplanes and biplanes lieuround the track. Having reached 11 10 metres (,:*(>-!-Jl'l.i Mnrano descended in a nerl'o'-t. earthwai'd elide. When the spectators; having frantically applauded Morane. turned to look I'or Ids rival, lie had vanished ~,„, pleielv. In vain with glasses thev searched the sky for "the .slender silhouette .if the Antoinette Grey clouds bad -wallowed ;i ~,.. .I'iVM.ntiy a deep gas,, f,-,,,n li,.- crowd heralded the reappearance of the wanderer in the air. Like a gim.-tly eagle the .great grey bird drifted niajesticallv into view through tlie mist. hut. oiu[v to vanish again and reanpear through the veil of sombre rain clouds. Ami then J-Jubert !,at iiani ' vanished altogether, leaving the carfii without tidings of him for full Jo minutes. The rocket lietalding the close of Hying exploded at seven, o'clock, but the. skv remained grey and unkind, jeulouslv guarding the daring; mortal ivho Jiad ventured out of sight of mother earth. M. ISleriot, with Ins men down by tin', sheds, was rhe |i,M to de.,crv Mr. Latham s return to earth. A dark point smudged a patch of iicry horizon framed in the held of mv binoculars. It was Air. Lai ham speeding from The ,|i- i rectum ol Kheims and gliding earth-1 ward to the Hying ground like" a bird) seeking its nest. On landing near his shed Mr. Lat'eam ' was wet and muddy, but cheerful, al- ! though he was without his customary ! cigarette. jj:„ aortal adventure- in nowise ruffled Ids composure. "I came down," "l ;c told me "because 1 lost 1113- wav. and ail sense of the horizon. It was' a!i right Vlion 1 entered the clouds, because 1 rose above them, and seeing then beueach mo was able to toil whether my planes were level. But then ] got into fee. It was awful. 1 had not the finest idea u here die earth lay. nor of :uv ;>os;tion in relation to it. st„ J h, % ,nl to descend, and, emerging i'iv,r,! tb • J',," found the town of' Khoims her.oalh me' it was not wet, but it wa„. cold "