INCREASING HEIGHT OF HUMAN FLIGHT.
■ M. Pauhon and Mr. Latham have latoly{ been raising the aeroplane altitudo record' to -heights which made the winning altitudo- at Kheims '.(500 feat): - look very puny.-.;;.:-,,. 1 -; M. Paulhan's 1150 febt"was capped by Mr. Latham's 1330 feet.., M. PauDian got up to. 1950 feet, and 'Mr.' Latham nearly doubled it by sailing .to !)200.feet. Now tho Frenchman soars in California to the ■ giddy, height of 4COO , feet, •or 1533 yards, which, is, over four-fifths, of. a inile.' ... It was': Mr. Latham-.who Iwdn", the Ehoiras altitude prize • with - the ; (iidw) modest height pf 500- feet.v>He .uses ; an Antoinette mpnbplane,'.with a. 50-h.p.•; en-, gine.'- M. Paulhan uses.a:,Voisih biplane, with an engine of 50 to;ss.h.p.'', ' ;.';. : ■ . The: Curtiss;biplane is -smaller/.than the Farman;'or. tho-Wright biplane,-and . has; an engine of • only 25 h'.p. '; 1 i|v; >..t.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 716, 15 January 1910, Page 5
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136INCREASING HEIGHT OF HUMAN FLIGHT. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 716, 15 January 1910, Page 5
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