Show first airplanes over it betita r divide making tho the first airplane flight fl ight y lo in history ov over erthe the continental divide in n Colom colorado do three do Ifil viland planes of tho the four our in tho the army flying t circus which in 11 1 1 e la III we steril states JU in the interest of 0 air service recruiting arrived in ift denver from glenwood enwood Ol springs all three left the mountain resort within five minutes lul of each 0 ther he first jumping off at tit noon they arrived over denver at their average flight thile was one hour and twenty minutes for the bec bce line distance of ISO mites iles one of tile the planes peanea was piloted by L aleut beut edward thia flyer whose home Is in III new sw york la is a grandson I 1 of col E I 1 berthoud pioneer builder and en gincer abo mado made one of the first surveys over berthoud pass ond and after who talho the pass was named cheti e got over the puss pass I 1 trove drove down low just to see what klad kind of a job the old boy laying out the rond road remarked lieutenant killgore with a 0 smile it struck me as rather unusual when I 1 thought lIt as is we went over here I 1 am right over a pass pam dhermy chero my grandfather gran father made a survey suney and berca herca his grandson going over the same territory in an airplane that at that time he never dreamed of 1 we had trouble with dead air when we started from GI 61 onwood enwood springs lieutenant said we made sev several rat attempts to go up with our customary amount of lug gilge but tid k ld to gire it up finally we made it by sending ou our r personal baggage on oa by train we ve arrived with our ur gas tanks N half filled weilt w nebout SO miles malcy north of leadville I 1 imagine lieutenant paid 11 T saw saw it on my right rad we went by most of the way we struck qt c altitude of feet our highest flight was na y ovar tile binim |