Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — HOXSEY BREAKS RECORD [ARTICLE]

HOXSEY BREAKS RECORD

Daring Aviator Soars to Height of 11,474 Feet in Altitude Flight. At Los Angeles, Cal., Arch Hexsey. the Pasadena aviator, before a great crowd of 75,000 people, broke the world's record for alii luce, soaring up to a height of 11,474 feet, or nearly 1,000 feet above the record of Le Cagneux at Pau, France. • , 1 Jersey acccmj Ibhc d the feat in the face of a forty tniies an hour wind that wrecked Hubert Latham’s Antoinette mono! lane. Horsey was carried twenty miles by the wind un it he was over Venice-by tbe-Sea. He alighted on the field in a series of spiral glides, The crowd went wild and carried him up and down in from of the grand stand.