Review of reviews and world's work . well as the presentationof gold medals by several aero clubs. Hubert Latham, another French aviator ambitiousto make the Channel crossing, attempted thetrip a few days after Bleriots flight and suc-ceeded in getting within two miles of theEnglish coast when his motor stopped and hedropped into the sea. French aviators havebeen especially industrious, and they are con-stantly making records of one kind or an-other. One of them, Roger Sommer. onAugust 7, in a Farman biplane, made a Hightof 2 hours and 27J4 minutes. This is theendurance record for an aeroplane
Review of reviews and world's work . well as the presentationof gold medals by several aero clubs. Hubert Latham, another French aviator ambitiousto make the Channel crossing, attempted thetrip a few days after Bleriots flight and suc-ceeded in getting within two miles of theEnglish coast when his motor stopped and hedropped into the sea. French aviators havebeen especially industrious, and they are con-stantly making records of one kind or an-other. One of them, Roger Sommer. onAugust 7, in a Farman biplane, made a Hightof 2 hours and 27J4 minutes. This is theendurance record for an aeroplane, and ex-ceeds Wilbur Wrights flight of 2 hours and20 minutes made in France on December 31last. Henry Farman, the English aeronaut,on July 22, flew from Chalons to Suippes inFrance, a distance of 40 miles, in i hourand 53^2 minutes. The Wright -A^^i^fican interest in aviation is Brothers at naturally centered largely on the ^^^ performances of the Wright brothers, and the flights made by them at 274 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF photograph by tbe Pictorial News Co. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AEROPLANE IN ITS FUGHTS AT FORT MYER. NEAR WASHINGTON, D. C, LAST MONTH. Fort !Myer last month in fulfillment of the aged over 42 miles an hour, thus winningGovernment tests attracted a great deal of for the inventors a bonus of $ The War Department specifica-tions called for a heavier-than-air machinecapable of making an endurance flight ofone hour with a passenger; a cross-countryspeed test of ten miles with a passenger, thespeed to be not less than 38 miles an hour,and a further test comprising the carrying ofsufficient fuel for a flight of 125 miles. Theprice to be paid for the aeroplane meetingthese conditions was $25,000, with a bonusof $2500 for each mile in excess of forty at-tained in the trial flight. These conditionswere all successfully met by the Wrightbrothers. On July 27, Orville Wright,carrying Lieutenant Lahm with him inthe machine, made the record flight foran
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