AERONAUTICS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 958, 27 October 1910, Page 5

AERONAUTICS.

MORE AMERICAN FEAT&

By TV>l*Braph-Pres3 Associatjoh-Oopyrieht

(Rec. October 26, U-.35 p.m.)

New York, October 28;

Mr. Ralph Johnstone beat Mjv Drexcl's a.ltitudo of 7105 feet by asceniling to a height of 7303 feet,. and making a new. United States record;..

. Mr. Johnstone aeroplancd in a snowstorm abovo tho , clouds, and was frostcovered when ho descended. Previously Mr. ,Johnstone. had ascended to a great height, but forgot, his barograph, and the height was not recorded. ';'... Mr. F. W. Radley, an Englishman, in a Bleriot monoplane, '. covered 20 miles across country in 19 min. dS 2-ssec.i The judges believed that the ' chronomotres were wrong, as' the speed is so amazing. Mr. Latham .manoeuvred on. the-edge' of storm clouds; and was in peril for some trine.. The crowds; thought he was merely showing off. He.riiade a rapid descent, and the wind caught hini against a tree,, dam aging his; machine, but leaving him unhurt. . A BALLOON' MISSING. 0 ..'.. .(Rec. October.' 2G, 11.35 p.m.)' • Vancouver, October 20.'.'.' The balloon America II; -which was in the . rac'o' from' St. : Louis, has not been located. '-.';.' '.'.•. Searchers - have left Toronto 'on behalf of the St. Louis Aero Club. . Milwaukee reports state that probably the balloon fell into. Lake Superior. •' ■' : • WAR; OFFICE •PURCHASES.' : X (Rec! October.26, 1.5 a.m.) .■', . London, October 26. . The "Daily Mail" states' that the War Offico has purchased two aeroplanes of tho. Paulhan and Farnian type ■ respectively.

GERMAN ■ LIEUTENANT KILLED.; ' '■-.(Bed. October 27, ;0.15a.m.) • ;'.'•' Berlin, October; 2G. Lieutenant Gente, while aoroplanihg at Magdeburg, fell sixty feet; and was.killed under his machine. .'..