Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1909 — WRIGHTS HAVE A RIVAL [ARTICLE]

WRIGHTS HAVE A RIVAL

Three Flights In New York by Aviator Glenn H. Curtiss. New York, July d.—ln three flights at the Morris Park racetrack, Glenn H. Curtiss flew a mile and three-quarters and won the first of four prizes, known as the president’s prize, offered recently by Cortlandt Field Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America. Curtiss sailed gracefully down to the grandstand, a distance of a half mile, then turned and sailed back, alighting without mishap. A few moments later he started again from the upper end of the field and sailed almost around the track, accomplishing in this flight more than five-eighths of a mile as required for the president’s cup. His elevation as he sailed over the ground was about thirty feet and the aeroplane maintained a speed of about thirty-three miles an hour.