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Record Aeroplane Flight Made Today by French Expert

M. Bleriot Flies Twenty-Eight Miles in Straight Line in Fifty-Six Minutes During Try-Out | Captures Big Prize

Etampes, FRANCE -

The Greatest aeroplane flight on record was completed this afternoon by M. Bleriot, the noted French Aeronaut, whose straightaway flight of 28 miles, completed in 56 minutes, is the most marvelous ever made in a heavier than air machine.

The Wright brothers have been in the air longer and have made flights which, for distance, exceed the Bleriot flight, but as they have always flown in a circle over a circumscribed field and have never attempted cross country flights, M. Bleriot’s air journey today is a world record.

M. Bleriot is soon to attempt a flight across the English Channel from Calais to Dover, for a 5000 pound prize. His flight today was a try-out for his machine. He started his aeroplane from Etampes and flew 56 minutes to Orleans, a distance of 28 miles, in the air. By making this marvelous journey M. Bleroit wins the prize of the Aero Club of France of $2800 offered to the first heavier that air machine that made the trip successfully.