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Show W HIGH fllGHT AEROPIANE RECORD " IS SET BY BRIKDIEY Wri.fl.t Biplane Soars 11 726 Feet Into the Cloudi Chicago. CHICAOO. Aug. l.-Oecr a- Brlnd-Ur Brlnd-Ur seared higher from th ground today than aeroolan baa aver been and aat a saw w erlg's rword at ll.TM feat. FMlMo O. farnialee followed Mm In til air. passing the former American record and reached !e.s7 fset bafor he waa forred to deeeend. The bemgraDha war gorrarted ar Can-tain Can-tain Clarenre Culver of the Klflh United Stat cavalrv and rertinad bv th i-erutlve i-erutlve commute af In lataraatloaal ail aa eorrect. International rulea of aviation, aa stated br O. F. C. Wood, secretary of ths Aero Clufc f Amrra. vrovtd that an aviator must fir t least 1M meters, or ill feet, higher than any arsvleiis reoord aefor he shell hav been declared de-clared to have eetahitehed a nw record. rec-ord. Brlnilley was shown t hav beaten Caotain Feng, the holder of tha world's record, wlih asvsral bun red fee to "The' werU s record at pressnt Is IS. til feet, aaaie by at. Lorljan. at Mnar-meien. Mnar-meien. Prano. July 1. Itll. Captain rellg flew t height ef 11. let feet at Etama, Francs, recently, but hla flight hsa not yet been mad official. Ralph Johnatnne est the American mark at Belmont aerk. Nsw Torn. October a. ltl. at 10,471 feat. ItaafBTS at Lower LsreUv While Brlndley. Howard QUI and Beachey ware high among the clouds finding safety tn their altitude. Jamea Ward and Earl Ovingtoa. Tying at oomparativlv low level, both had narrow nar-row erp from death. Tha propeller of Ward'a machine broke Into a hundred Elects a he flew before th grandstand, ut th aviator held tight and brought hla machine wobbling to th ground. Ovlagton. with hi ngin eiopped. not quits able t reach shors. found a lana-Ing lana-Ing place In five fsst of waiar. front which he escaped with ducking. The alt liutfa evsnta. though not scheduled, proved the moat Important of th day. A wind that blew at twenty mile on hundred feet above th earth we leas severe higher up. and Brtndlsy. Beachey and Oil) started for altitude. Beachey waa first tn descend, driven down by the cold. He came down In a halr-ralgtng spiral gilds, shivering, hardly hard-ly able to move hie head. Hla bars-graph bars-graph showed Uoi fact. At Blfh Altitude. Brlndley waa tha next ta dsscswd after having passed ut af glght of strong (told glasses. HI barograph had swung around ta a figure never before touched In America, poeetbly la th world, showing show-ing 11. on feat. 0)111 cam down soon aflsr. with a mark of 170 feat. All declared de-clared they could hav mads area better marks but for the sold. "Th air waa fine for Svtng. nd I could have staved up longer and son higher." said Brlndley. "but I had light clothe oa. When ths thrmomter got down ar fresging end 1 was rushing through th air my hands were ao cold I ould not handle tit machine safely." Ovingtoa' accident occurred asar Seventy-thl rd street, m the shors water races. He had stopped his sogtn for th turn, eight miles south of th aviatlm Said, and was unabl to start 11 H tried to land In tha golf llnka. but found hla apssd too grant. 'Instd h made a clrcj over th leas aad then found hla spesd Insufficient ta reach lend, a h ghtd In a lagoon, from wbloh 0 could swim ashore. Ktw ataearl Altitude, O. A. Brlndley. ll.TM feet, corrected reading, set tl ng nsw record. Eighteen -ml!., eme watar 8opsrlth won. Il ll l; Ely tseood. 17:1.1; Beachey third. IT Ili Monoplana. lf-mllo. svarlsnd Sonwtth won. If M.I: Ovingtoa second. U.M; Sl-mon Sl-mon third. l;t.A |