In the Air

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 28, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 25.

In the Air.—Charles K. Hamilton, on June 13, in a Curtiss bi-plane flew from New York to Philadelphia and return, a distance of 176 miles, in three hours and twenty-seven minutes, winning the $10,000 prize offered by the New York Times and the Philadelphia Ledger. His out-bound trip consumed one hour and fifty-one minutes, performed without a stop. He alighted once on his return. His average speed is estimated at a fraction less than fifty-five miles per hour. The same day Walter S. Brookins, in a Wright bi-plane at Indianapolis rose to a height of 4,384 feet in twenty-four minutes, and descended in six minutes and twenty-five seconds. This is far ahead of Paulhan's upward flight of 4,167 feet in forty minutes.