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Show CPSBD BBOOSDS MOTES. A totally nsw reform of speed records seema to be open to the aviator., says ths Engineering Record. The record of 1U mil, aa hour eredlted to Vedrlne leavea every previous exhibition of human hu-man power to make time hopelessly In the rear. Automobllea and electric train, have succeeded for a mil or two In covering ground at a rate of a little over two mltee a mlaute. but now -comes ths aeroplane with a flight of nearly eighty-nine mllee through open spec n a brtf half hour of time. It le not only a aew reoerd for epeed, but also a new conception of speed that Is given the world by this extraordinary rerformanc. True enough, the aviator ad a hurricane at his book and one of the very fastest macblnee In the world, a alorane monoplane, bnatb him. but th combined re.ult la certainly none the less awe Inepliing. Ke aviator would willingly chance It In the tempeet that must have ewept the upper air behind the machine, but once caught In ths blast there srsa nothing for It but to run bofor th gal. Just now faat ths wind wasalowtng and lust how fast ths monoplane mono-plane was scudding ahead will probably never be known. The machine was cr-lasnlly cr-lasnlly good for svnty-flv or eighty mllee an hour and the wind was probably doing equally aa well. Ae a mre matter of mechanics the ttoeelblklty of such speeds Is inspiring At ths rale at which aroplan epde hav bn Increased for the laat year or two It ta going to be but a brief time before be-fore toe miles aa hour le passed and not much more before aH rerorde of thlnga that travel on earth are passed. It may be long, however, before thle prodigious flight of Vedrlae'e le baatea. At th B resent there eeme to a no difficulty constructing a system of plan that will Sr and By well with sufficient power behind It. Incrsaa ever th praeeat ordinary speeds for dying machine muet com by kiL-isswtng th ng1n powor. Increasing In-creasing the eJTlcieney of the propaHer or groatly decreasing tn resistance of th plan far a gtvw luting power. |