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SUNDAY EXAMINER JUNE 2,
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STUDENSKY FLIES 2,500 FT. UP IN AIR
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Makes Altitude Record With Beech Biplane at Cicero; Aviators Dare Gale.
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[[underlined in red]]Paul Studensky, the Russian aviator, made a record at the Cicero flying field yesterday at the third aerial matinee of the Aero Club of Illinois, when he flew his giant Beech-National biplane to an altitude of 2,500 feet.  This was the first time that an aeroplane with a wing spread of 50 feet has ever been driven to such an altitude. The Curtiss biplanes and the monoplanes look like mere babies compared with the new machine. It is driven by a six cylinder sixty-horsepower motor.[[/underlined in red]]

The aerial mail service to Elmhurst established last Friday continues in operation. So popular has this method of sending postcards become that Tournier, in addition to Lillie, was drafted as a carrier yesterday. Promptly at 5 o'clock the two took wing and in less then a quarter of an hour they were at their destination. The Frenchman operated his speedy little Nieuport monoplane, which by long odds is the favorite of the spectators. Its graceful lines make it resemble a swallow.

Flyers Dare Gale.

[[underlined in red]]In spite of the high, puffy wind, which made flying particularly dangerous, Aviators Lillie, Mestach, Drew, Brodie, and Studensky insisted on cutting many fancy capers during the afternoon.[[/underlined in red]]  Turning from all angles, climbing and then diving precipitously, they kept the spectators interested every moment.

The arrival of a homing pigeon at the aerodrome drew the attention of the crowd to the contrast between natural flyers and the comparatively cumbersome contrivances which have been invented by man. The bird, property of Edward Riha of 1948 Kedzie avenue, was released in Burlington, Iowa, by Aviator Fred Hoover while making a flight at 12 o'clock noon and it covered the distance to Chicago in five hours and fifteen minutes. It delivered a message from the Mills aviators, [[torn page]] are giving an exhibition in the Iowa city, to the officials of the Aero Club of Illinois.

[[photo - biplane in flight]]

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