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"Flying Machines: construction and operation; a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship"

Bier, Austria, Etrich Machine, 4,010 feet.
AMERICAN RECORDS.
Greatest Speed Per Hour, Whatever Length of Flight, Aviator
Alone--A. Leblanc, Belmont Park, N. Y., October 29, Bleriot
Machine, 67.87 miles; with one passenger, C. Grahame-White,
Squantum, Mass., September 4, Nieuport Machine, 63.23 miles; with
two passengers, T. O. M. Sopwith, Chicago, Ill., August 15,
Wright Machine, 34.96 miles.
Greatest Distance Aviator Alone--St. Croix Johnstone, Mineola,
N. Y., July 27, Moisant (Bleriot Type) Machine, 176.23 miles.
Greatest Duration Aviator Alone--Howard W. Gill, Kinloch, Mo.,
October 19, Wright Machine, 4 hours, 16 minutes, 35 seconds; with
one passenger, G. W. Beatty, Chicago, Ill., August 19, Wright
Machine, 3 hours, 42 minutes, 22 1-5 seconds; with two
passengers, T. de W. Milling, Nassau Boulevard, N. Y., September
26, Burgess-Wright Machine, 1 hour, 54 minutes, 42 3-5 seconds.
Greatest Altitude Aviator Alone--L. Beachy, Chicago, Ill., August
20, Curtiss Machine, 11,642 feet; with one passenger, C. Grahame-
White, Nassau Boulevard, N. Y., September 30, Nieuport Machine,
3,347 feet.
Weight Carrying--P. O. Parmelee, Chicago, III., August 19,
Wright Machine, 458 lbs.
AVIATION DEVELOPMENT.
The wonderful progress made in the science of aviation
during the year 1911 far surpasses any twelve months' advancement
recorded.


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