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Higher Climbing by the Bird-Men

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 15, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 45.

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Higher Climbing by the Bird-Men

Higher Climbing by the Bird-Men.—Dec. 18, 1908, Wilbur Wright, at Avours, France, 360 feet; Sept. 17, 1909, Orville Wright, at Berlin, 565 feet; Oct. 4, 1909, Orville Wright, at Berlin, 1,600 feet; Jan. 12, 1910, Louis Paulhan, at Los Angeles, 5,000 feet; July 9, 1910, Walter Brookins, at Atlantic City, 6,175 feet; Oct. 24, 1910, J. A. Drexel, at Belmont Park, 7,105 feet; the last and greatest is Ralph Johnstone, at Belmont Park, Oct. 31, 1910, 9,714 feet. There have been a number of intermediate heights, but the above show the marvelously rapid progress in aviation.