Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1910 — Aviator Soars to Enormous Height At New York Today. [ARTICLE]

Aviator Soars to Enormous Height At New York Today.

J. Armstrong Drexel, an American aviator, rode a biplane to the great height of 7,105 feet from tne ground at New York today. This is the American record. A Hollander named Henry Wynmalen had previously attained an altitude in a foreign contest of 9,186 feet. The height is measured by means of a barograph, which is locked so that the aviator can not alter it. Walter Brookins, the man who recently flew from Chicago to Springfield, had trouble with his engine and when at a height of 4,882 feet the engine stopped and he had to descend without the power supplied by the propeller with which he could steady the descent. By gliding away about a mile and a half he was able to reach the ground without injury to himself but his biplane was damaged.