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ARMY AVIATORS IN RECORD FLIGHT

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Lieutenants Milling and Sherman Cover 236 Miles Without Stop in 3 Hours 20 Minutes.

A telegram received at Governor's Island yesterday by Major Samuel Reber, U. S. A., chief signal officer of the Department of the East, announced that the longest cross country flight without stop yet achieved in America had been made by two army aviators, Lieutenants [[pencil underlined]] Thomas de W. Milling [[/pencil underlined]] and William C. Sherman. The distance flown was given at 236 miles from Texas City, near Galveston, to San Antonio, Texas. The time was three hours and twenty minutes.

In addition to the cross country flight the aviators remained in the air in evolutions more than an hour longer. Their total duration was four hours, twenty-two minutes. The American duration record with passenger is three hours, fifty-one minutes, made by W. E. Johnson, at Bath, N. Y., last December.

Besides establishing a new open record for distance across country without stop and for cross country with passengers, the aviators have exceeded the late C. P. Rogers' one day cross country flight record of 231 miles from Sanderson, Texas, to Sierra Blanco, Texas, in his transcontinental flight in October, 1911.

The feat was achieved with the Burgess tractor biplane exhibited here at the last aeronautic show. The machine is driven by the only motor yet purchased abroad by the United States government, a Renault of seventy horse power.
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