plane between two cities for a prize offered by "New York Times"; time from South Amboy, where delay for repairs was necessary, to Governor's Island, 23 minutes; total distance, Philadelphia and return, 175 miles; total time in air, 3 hours 27 minutes; estimated flight to Philadelphia without stop, 86 miles. 10 American duration record at the time. First flight over Long Island Sound for "Country Life in America" trophy; air distance flown estimated at 18 miles. 12American duration record; distance travelled over aviation grounds, 101 miles 389 feet. 13From Atlantic, near Boston. twice to Boston Light and return, 33 miles, $10,000 prize. 14Record 'cross-country for America at time (see Hoxey); second lap, from Gilman to Mount Pulaski, Ill., 88 miles, or two miles better than American record held by Hamilton (New YorkPhiladelphia); total straight-line distance from Chicago to Springfield, 175% miles, made with two stops; average speed, 30.4 miles; "Chicago Record-Herald" $10,000 prize. 15 American record for 'cross-country flying in that the total distance, 104 miles, was made without a stop; Brookins previously held same, with 88 miles. 16 Won $10,000 prize offered by Thomas F. Ryan, but owing to protest entered by Grahame-White, Englishman, will not be decided for a year; distance, approximately 35 miles. 17See above; Moisant. 18 See above; Moisant. 19Round trip, approximately 120 miles, for $5,000 prize.

1 Won $3,000 prize. "World's record at the time. American record at the time. Won $5.000; time up, 1 hour 29 minutes 21.60 seconds. "No prize offered; time up, 1 hour 23 minutes. Record not accepted by the Aero Club of America. FAST FLIGHTS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

FATAL AVIATION ACCIDENTS, 1908-'10.

Name.

Date.

1908.
Lieut. Selfridge, Sept. 17.....
1909.

Lebebore, Sept. 7...
Captain Ferber, Sept. 22.
Fernandez, Dec. 6..

1910.

Delagrange, Jan. 4.

Le Blon, April 2.

Juvisy Van Maasdyck, Aug 27.
Boulogne Poillot, Sept. 25.

.Nice Chavez, Sept. 27.

Plochmann, Sept. 28.

Bordeaux Haas, Oct. 1.

.St. Sebastian Matiewitch, Oct. 7.

Hauvette Michelin, May 13..
Zoseley, June 2.

Rebl, June 18..

Wachter, July 3.

Daniel Kinet, July 15.

Rolls, July 12..

Place.

.Brussels

12....Magliani .Arnheim . Chartres .Domo Dossola Habreheim .Treves

.St. Petersburg

. Doual

Lyons Captain Madiot, Oct. 23.
Budapest Lieutenant Mente, Oct. 25... Madgebourg
.Stettin Blanchard, Oct. 26...Issy-les-Moulineaux
..Rheims Lieutenant Saglietti, Oct. 27......Rome
. Ghent Ralph Johnstone, Nov. 17..
.Denver
Bournemouth

MISCELLANEOUS AVIATION STATISTICS.

Quick start world's record is held by Grahame-White, and was made at Blackpool, England. Using a Farman biplane, he rose from the ground at 20 feet and 9 inches, on August 15, 1910.

On May 23, 1910, Charles K. Hamilton, in the Curtiss biplane, rose from the ground at San Antonio, Tex., at seventy feet, 3.8 seconds after start.

Walter Brookins holds the record of the world for describing a circle in an aeroplane in the briefest time. At Asbury Park, N. J., in August, 1910, Brookins accomplished the feat in 5 seconds. He also held the previous world's record by describing a circle at Indianapolis, Ind., in 6 2-5 seconds, on June 16, 1910.

The first woman passenger to fly by aeroplane in America was Mrs. Ralph D. Van de Man, who was carried by Wilbur Wright at College Park, Md., in October, 1909.

A great number of "passenger flights" have been made in America and abroad during 1910. An American record was established by Charles F. Willard, in a Curtiss biplane, at Garden City, Long Island, on August 14, 1910, when he took up R. F. Patterson, Harry Willard and A. Albin. Starting from the Aeronautical Society's shed, he flew at about fifteen feet above the ground as far as the grandstand, a distance of a quarter of a mile. The machine weighed approximately 650 pounds, the four men weighed 375 pounds, and, including the oil and gas, the weight carried was approximately 1,200 pounds for 320 square feet of supporting surface.

One of the most notable passenger carrying trips was that made by Arch Hoxsey, in a Wright, when he took up Theodore Roosevelt and remained aloft, at St. Louis, on October 11, 1910, for 3 minutes and 20 seconds.

Eugene B. Ely. in a Curtiss biplane, flew from the deck of a warship for the first time in history on November 14, 1910. From the United States cruiser Birmingham, lying in Hampton Roads, Ely flew across the lower end of Chesapeake Bay to a point of land opposite Fort Monroe, Virginia, about four miles, in five minutes.

On December 9, 1910, M. Leganeux a French aviator, broke the world's high flight record at Pau, France, going up 10,499 feet.

BALLOONING.

While abroad the large dirigible balloons are constantly increasing in size and number for use in army manoeuvres, the United States Government owns only one war balloon, furnished in 1908 by Captain Thomas S. Baldwin. It is only 120 feet long and is a mere toy compared to the Zeppelin, Parseval and Grosse types which other nations-especially Germany and France-are steadily building. In Germany approximately two and a quarter million cubic feet of gas were used in 1910 for balloon ascensions of one kind or another. In the United States the amount was approximately a quarter of a million cubic feet.

In many respects the most sensational American balloon trip of the year was that made by Walter Wellman and his crew of five men in a widely advertised attempt to cross the Atlantic. The big dirigible "America," of the non-rigid type, with Walter Wellman in command and Melvin Vaniman, chief engineer, sailed from Atlantic City, N. J., at 8:05 a. m. on October 15 in a heavy fog. She kept up wireless communication with the outside world until 12:45 p. m. October 16 (when off Nantucket Island), after which time she lacked the power to transmit messages, but at no time was unable to receive them, the crew being advised of the search made for them, but unable to indicate their whereabouts. The motor became disabled, presumably through the jerking of the equilibrator.

The America was abandoned at 7 a. m. October 18, when between New York and the Bermudas. She was up and manned for seventy-one hours (about thirty-three hours longer than Zeppelin's overland record), and drifted and motored about 1,000 miles in that time.

THE JAMES GORDON BENNETT BALLOON CUP RACE. From St. Louis, October 17, 1910. Won by America II, Manned by Alan R. Hawley and Augustus Post, of New York City.

America II
A. R. Hawley, pilot; Augus-
(United States) | tus Post, aide.......... Oct. 17, 5:46:20 p. m. near Peribonka, Que. Oct. 19, 8:30 p. m...
Dusseldorf (Ger-Lieut. Hans Gericke, pilot;
many)
Samuel F. Perkins, alde... Oct. 17, 5:35:55 p. m. Kiskisink, Quebec.... Oct. 19, 12:00
Germania (Ger- Hugo von Abercron, pilot;
many)
Helvetia
zerland)
Oct. 17, 5:26:55 p. m. Ville Marie, Quebec... Oct. 19,
Harburg III Leopold Vogt, pilot; W. F.
(Germany)
Assman, aide....
Azurea (Switzer-Capt. E. Messner, pilot; Leon
land)
Givandan, aide.

August Blanckertz, aide... Oct. 17, 5:53:50 p. m. Coocoocahe, Quebec... Oct. 19,
(Swit-Colonel Schaeck, pilot; A.
Armbruster, aide.

......

...

mate

Time of start.

Landed at.

Time of landing.

Distance.
Miles.

Lake Tschotogama,

1,171.13 45

44

m...

Oct. 17, 5:07:05 p. m.

22 miles N. E. Bis- Oct. 19,
cotasing, Ontario...

8:00 a. m...

756.00

Oct. 17, 5:23:30 p. m.

3 miles north Poga- Oct. 19,
masing, Ont........

88 53

35

28

Oct. 17, 5:25:40 p. m. Hillman, Mich........ Oct. 18,

Isle de France Alfred Leblanc, pilot; Walter
(France)
de Mumm, alde.
St. Louis IV Capt. H. E. Honeywell, pilot;
(United States) J. W. Solland, aide.
Condor (France). Jacques Faure, pilot; Ernest
G. Schmolck, aide........ Oct. 17, 4:20:45 p. m. 4 miles north Two Oct. 18, 12:45 p. m...
Million
Rivers, Wis.....
tion
Club S. Louis von Phul, pilot;
6%1⁄2 miles north Ra-
(United States) J. M. O'Reilly, aide.
Oct. 17, 4:52:45 p. m. cine, Wis.

Popula

Oct, 18, 7:25 a. m.

817.00 14 32

ELIMINATION RACE HELD AT INDIANAPOLIS ON SEPTEMBER 17, 1910, TO SELECT AMERICAN TEAM FOR JAMES

A. R. Hawley, pilot; Au-
gustus Post, aide........ Sept. 17, 4:53 p. m. Warrenton, Fauquier

H. E. Honeywell, pilot:
Lambert, aide....

Sept. 17, 5:39 p. m. Brush Valley, In

Sept. 19, 1:15 p. m. 453 miles 44:25
diana Co., Penn.. Sept. 18, 5:15 p. m. [3791⁄2 miles 23:36
J. H. Wade, Jr., pilot; A.
H. Morgan, aide... Sept. 17, 5:52 p. m. Sowers, Floyd Co..

8. Louis Von Phul, pilot; J. M. O'Reilly, aide.

Va.
Sept. 17, 5:19 p. m. Trafford, Westmore-
land Co., Penn.. Sept. 18, 2:85 p. m. 848

Balloon.

Miss Sofia.

Pennsylvania II.

New York.

Hoosier II..

Manned by

A. T. Atherholt, pilot; C.

Time of Start.

Landed at

Time of Landing.

Time Distance. H.M.

Sept. 18, 5:10 p. m. 269 miles 24:08

Meigs Co.,

Sept. 18, 10:30 a. m. 218

miles 18:52

miles 18:04

miles 7:06

W. T. Assmann, pilot; P.
J. McCollough, aide..... Sept. 17, 5:02 p. m. Macfarlan, Ritchie
Co., W. Va........
B. Graham, alde........ Sept. 17, 5:38 p. m. Dexter,
Ohio
Clifford B. Harmon, pilot;
Thos. S. Baldwin, aide.. Sept. 17, 5:56 p. m. Powellsville, Scioto
Co., Ohio....
Sept. 18, 12 m...... 198
Sept. 17, 5:49 p. m. West Milton, Miami
Co., Ohio....... Sept. 18, 12:55 a. m. 99
Winners of the Bennett Balloon Cup in former years were: 1903, America (Lieutenant Lahm, balloon United States, 401 miles);
America (E. Mix, balloon America II, 700 miles).
1907, Germany (O. Erbsloh, balloon Pommern, 872 miles); 1908, Switzerland (Colonel Shaeck, balloon Helvetia, 756 miles); 1909,
OTHER WORLD RECORDS FOR SPHERICAL BALLOONS.

Charles Walsh, pilot; Sam-
uel Reber, aide.......

World's record, distance:

Russia (1,193 miles), in 35% hours, October 9-11, 1900.
Count Henri de la Vaulx and Com te Castillon de Saint Victor, Vincennes, France, to Korostychew,
11, 1908, landing in the sea off Norway.
World's record, duration: Seventy-two hours, made by Colonel Schaeck, a Swiss military officer, from Berlin, Germany, on October
St. Louis Centennial balloon race, October 4, 1909.
United States record, duration: Clifford B. Harmon and Augustus Post, St. Louis, Mo., to Edina, Mo., 48 hours 26 minutes, in
October 4, 1909. Not official.
United States record, altitude: 24,200 feet, reached by Clifford B. Harmon and Augustus Post, St. Louis, Mo., to Edina, Mo.,
Va., October 12, 1909, during which they reached an altitude of 20,600 feet.
Lahm Cup record (United States): 697 miles, A. Holland Forbes and Colonel Max C. Fleischmann, St. Louis, Mo., to near Beach,

AMERICAN SPEED RECORDS FOR AEROPLANES.
(For 'cross-country records see Distance and Duration Tables.)

.Oct. 25, 1910.
.Oct. 25, 1910.
.Oct. 25, 1910.
Oct. 25, 1910..
Oct. 2, 1910..
Oct. 25, 1910.
.Oct. 26, 1910.

kilometres (3.1
35 kilometres (21.7
30 kilometres (19.6
kilometres (19.6
kilometres (6.2

miles).. 0:06:37.35
miles).. 0:34:16.85|
miles).. 0:21:43.35
miles).. 0:30:47.40
miles). 0:07:23.50

After slow-speed record, with passenger. previous slow-speed record (24.11 miles an hour,

$3,000

87.5 kilometres (54.25 miles).. 1:04:36 60 kilometres (37.2 miles).. 0:50:13

Won $1,000. Won $1,000 for slow speed record of the world; Ogilvie held •Won $500. *22.82 miles an hour.

in Wright machine). Won $2,000.