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

THE EVENING TELEGRAM-NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1911.

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What Aviator Sees on a Cross Country Flight.

LEAVING THE AVIATION GROUNDS

[[image - Aviation grounds photo]]

LIEUTENANT T. DE WITT MILLING, U.S.A

[[image - Lt. Milling photo]]

[[image - Ariel view of community photo]]

A RURAL COMMUNITY

[[image - Biplane photo]]

THE ASCENT.

[[image - Ariel view of Floral Park]]

FLORAL PARK FROM AN ALTITUDE OF 600 FEET 

PHOTOS BY F.S. DART


The above photographs, taken from a Bargess-wright biplane, driven by Lieutenant T. DeWitt Milling, U.S.A., holder of the world's duration record for carrying two passengers, give an idea to those who have never had the pleasure of riding in an areoplane, just how 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 land to the west of Nassua Boulevard. A careful study of 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.

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 Nassua Boulevard, L. I. will be an endeavor on the part of Claude Grahame-White to establish a new record for distance in thirty-minute flight with a passenger. In his effort to make this new record, Mr. Grahame-white will use his Nieuport machine, and will 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 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. 

Not withstanding the fact that a message has been received by Sheriff Charles T. Demott from Govenor 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 on that day.