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[[stamp]]SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
NATIONAL AIR MUSEUM[[/stamp]]

MILLING T. DEWITT, BRIG. GEN
USAF BIOG. FILE
FOLDER NO. 3
ITEM NO. 13

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THE EVENING TELEGRAM - NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1911.
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What the Aviator Sees on a Cross Country Flight.

[[image - aviation grounds seen from above]]
[[caption]]LEAVING THE AVIATION GROUNDS[[/caption]]

[[image - smiling man]]
[[caption]]LIEUTENANT T. DE WITT MILLING, U.S.A.[[/caption]]

[[image - town seen from above]]
[[caption]]A RURAL COMMUNITY[[/caption]]

[[image - plane taking off]]
[[caption]] THE ASCENT
PHOTOS BY F.S. DART.[[/caption]]

[[image - landscape from above]]
[[caption]]FLORAL PARK FROM AN ALTITUDE OF 600 FEET.[[/caption]]

ve photographs, taken from a 
Wright biplane, driven by Lieu-
DeWitt Milling, U. S. A., holder
rld's duration record for carrying
ngers, give an idea to those who have never had the pleasure of riding in an aeroplane, just how the earth looks from a height of eight hundred feet.

The photographs were taken by Mr. Frank Sales Dart, staff photographer for the EVENING TELEGRAM, while flying with Lieutenant Milling over the land to the west of Nassau Boulevard. A careful study of the pictures gives the reader an idea of what great use the aerial photographer could be in case of war.

In the pictures the camp of the soldiers now stationed at the boulevard shows up with distinctness, while the different routes possible to marching troops can be easily seen.

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Mr. Grahame White in Record Trial.

Among the events that will be held today as the seventh day of the aviation meet, now being held at Nassau Boulevard, L. I. will be an endeavor on the part of Claude Grahame-White to establish a new [r]ecord for distance in a thirty-minute [fl]ight with a passenger. In his effort [t]o make  this new record, Mr. Grahame-[W]hite will use his Nieuport machine, and [w]ill carry a passenger, W. Irving Twombly, the field officer of the meet. The record for this class of flight is held by the late Mons. Nieuport in the Nieuport, at Mourmelon, France, last June. At the time he covered 31.068 miles in the prescribed thirty minutes. The special prize for this event will be $200.

Notwithstanding the fact that a message has been received by Sheriff Charles T. Demott from Governor Dix, instructing him to take any steps necessary in prohibiting the meet next Sunday, it has been emphatically stated by Timothy L. Woodruff, manager of the meet, that there will be the regular programme flights that day.
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