. Outing. COUNT LAMBERT IN HIS WRIGHT MACHINE, IN WHICH HE TOOK FOURTH PRIZE IN THE SPEED CONTEST. 144 THE OUTING MAGAZINE game, covered nearly 81 miles, remain-ing in the air 2 hours, 43 minutes, 24^seconds. Not for a whole day wasthis record disturbed. Then Lathamflew 96J miles in less than 2 hours and18 minutes. This in turn was destined to standonly 24 hours. Then Farman, the Eng-lishman, swept the sky with his ownbiplane, traveling 112J miles in 3 hours,4 minutes, 56 seconds. This was the Latham carried off the honors in thealtitude contest on the last day of thetournament. The height whi
. Outing. COUNT LAMBERT IN HIS WRIGHT MACHINE, IN WHICH HE TOOK FOURTH PRIZE IN THE SPEED CONTEST. 144 THE OUTING MAGAZINE game, covered nearly 81 miles, remain-ing in the air 2 hours, 43 minutes, 24^seconds. Not for a whole day wasthis record disturbed. Then Lathamflew 96J miles in less than 2 hours and18 minutes. This in turn was destined to standonly 24 hours. Then Farman, the Eng-lishman, swept the sky with his ownbiplane, traveling 112J miles in 3 hours,4 minutes, 56 seconds. This was the Latham carried off the honors in thealtitude contest on the last day of thetournament. The height which he at-tained with his monoplane, equippedwith a Levasseur engine, was 155 me-ters, more than 505 feet. Farmanmade a bid for the prize in this event,but the best he could do was no meters,less than 330 feet. As far as demonstration of relativevalues of different types is concerned. LEFEBVRE, ANOTHER PILOT OF THE WRIGHT BIPLANE; A FEW DAYS AFTER THERHEIMS CONTEST HE WAS KILLED BY FALLING WITH HIS MACHINE AT JUVISSY. last word for time and distance as faras Rheims was concerned. Farmans biplane differs from theVoisin principally in having no uprightdivisions between the horizontal and Paulhan both used the Gnomemotor, a peculiarity of which is itsrevolution around a fixed axle, thus ef-fecting its own cooling. Paulhan usedthe Voisin biplane of the cellular or box-kite type. The engine was seven-cyl-inder. Lathams flight was made in anAntoinette machine with a sixty horse-power motor. honors would seem to be about greatest discussion was over themerits of the Wright biplane as againstthe cellular type as shown in the of the latter argue that in asimple biplane of the Wright type alateral wind displaces the center ofpressure, while leaving the center ofgravity the same. This makes necessarywing-war ping or some other similardevice,
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