The search for the secret of automatic stability
still continues, and though some remarkable progress has
been made the solution has not yet been reached.
NOTABLE CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHTS OF 1911.
One of the important features of 1911 in aviation was the
rapid increase in the number and distance of cross-country
flights made either for the purpose of exhibition, testing,
instruction or pleasure. Flights between cities in almost every
country of the world became common occurrences. So great
was the number that only those of more than ordinary importance
because of speed, distance or duration are recorded.
The flights of Harry N. Atwood from Boston to Washington
and from St. Louis to New York, and C. P. Rodgers from
New York to Los Angeles were the most important events
of the kind in this country. The St Louis to New York flight
was a distance by air route, 1,266 miles. Duration of flight,
12 days. Net flying time, 28 hours 53 minutes. Average
daily flight, 105.5 miles. Average speed, 43.9 miles per hour.
Transcontinental Flight of Calbraith P. Rodgers.--All
world records for cross-country flying were broken during
the New York to Los Angeles flight of Calbraith P. Rodgers,
who left Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., on Sunday, September 17,
1911, and completed his flight to the Pacific Coast on Sunday,
November 5, at Pasadena, Cal.
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