Show AVIATORS flY IU AT T I II I IWhite i White the English Sh Takes First Place in Dis Distance Distance II tance Record MOISSANT AMERICAN IN CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT PLIGHT Hoxsey and Johnstone John Try for forthe forthe forthe the Altitude Record Fog Spoils Attempts NEW NE YORK Oct 22 Claudo Gra Ora the thc l took toole first place In imi the distance content contest and anti andIn andIn In time the of o duration at Elt t the th international aviation meet at Pel mont Pork larl luday an American Hox Flox Hoxsey Hoxer sey er of lie Mic Wright hl teem soaring high Inlo the and anti another man John II B Moissant of Chicago was sits the tho only contestant who cared to lo take e chances chance on a twentymile cross country flight light Into the teeth leoth of the tho wind and with Iho fog so thick that ho luu could not see ace seethe seethe the ground after he lie rose roso feet feel Steered Ste by a Iol flight was a second dem dens th his bis own W the fact that thai an nn airman like a n seaman can steer by l compass v without regard re ard to 0 the time of day daj or 01 night foul weather 01 or fair fait As on out his hi trip from Paris to London he lie steered wholly by hy com coin compass I pass passIn In point of fact as oh ob observed served sered covered miles more than the tho course although he hitS Is 15 not credited with time tho th excess e cess No roe rec records woo were broken today It was dent to triumph to fly at all nil In III a per persistent tJI fine rain driven by b a It steady alcad ea t wind Only six or orho ho twentynine aviators at nt the hue park attempted to fly f Fly for Distance Record In iii a steady Par Far Parman I Farman l man biplane keeping close to lO the ground and cutting lie tho corners with willi workman lol piled plied tip imp twenty ty t laps In two successive hours riv fis rivIng Ing imig for oui was s Just two nouns hour In ims the air all and lud the official scorers lS credited him with 50 era mIlos for fOI each hour hOll Idols Alois I cant Bant was second with fourteen laps for tho first hour and fifteen fite n for lr thu sec second s c ond respectively 2175 miles tumid anti 23 2 3 mlles miles lie He started darted late bate and amid although he h gained in the tho straightaways tu lit lost at tho the turns and In tho th first hout was penalised four for cutting corners Inside the Pylons Ions Wont Went Up for Altitude Norio ono ot at the Wright team tried for distance Hoxsey rind rand both went up I lot for altitude but had hind trouble and evi 01 evidently dently found the Uie currents above oboe tho thu fog fo too wild for ho lie quickly settled Irons from a It height holh of feet feat to moro more mod mati modest est St Ely Elv i of f C th lin tr in n also ilso tried his luck lucle at height and took second Hc con place llaco for the first hour with feet r L 1 tried it il again In the sec see second second ond hour and did worse feet thIs Usia time Count marie made 08 feet J Armstrong Drexel feet foot and anti ElY Kly ElYon on another trial feet Ceel None Nono ono of them thorn liked it much up u above Monoplane vs VI Biplane In tho lie main It was vas a contest be hue between tween tho iso monoplane and the biplane with the monoplane the tile swifter and amid the Iho biplane the steadier None Nemie on of or tho Gnome revolving engines missed once during the tho day da where as the Ameri Amen American can cau vertical and oblique t and eight cylinder engines wore were all more or less troubled with faulty tault ignition The altitude distance and duration figures made today Loda entitled tho the first second and third place nIece men to dally dall cash prizes and will count In the per percentage distribution of the profits at atthe atthe the tho end of the nine nino days cla 5 meet |