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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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usands of admirers. Naturally, all other of his achieve- ments gave way to the remarkable exhi-bition of Wednesday, January 12, when,without any preliminary notice what-ever, the young Frenchman began cir-cling the field in the attempt to break theworlds record for altitude. As his bi-plane mounted higher and higher, the at-tention of the fifty thousand spectators,now concentrated upon the rapidly re-ceding object above, grew almost painfulin its intensity. Even with powerfulbinoculars the machine, at its highestflight, appeared scarcely larger than asoap box and the figure of the man wasentirely lost to view. That he had attained his object andexceeded the height credited to Lathamof 3,600 feet, was not doubted by asoul present. This belief soon became acertainty when the experts engaged inestablishing the vertical distance of theaviator from earth by triangulation an-nounced that he had passed the 4,000-foot level. Paulhan carried aloft withhim an aneroid barometer, but this was 753
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Photographed expressly for THE OUTING MAGAZINE by Ralph S. Hawkins.PAULHAN CLIMBS LIGHTLY INTO HIS SEAT, AND WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST DEMON-STRATION WHIRS ALOFT. not depended upon for the official mark-ing. A series of observations was taken byexperts as the Frenchman ascended, thelast one being secured just before hetipped the front planes to descend. Thefield man held the glasses on him andsignaled the operators at the two transitinstruments to clamp. In taking Paul-hans altitude three triangles had to besolved, one of them a scalene, the othertwo right triangles. The use of thesecond transit instrument was necessarybecause of the moving object being offthe base line. As the aviator swam nearer into viewon his downward flight the excitementof the onlookers increased. Womengave vent to hysterical laughs thatchanged into sobs and in the eyes of manymen were tears of excitement. It wasa relief when the band dashed into theMarseillaise, in which thousands ofvoices blended. Five minutes lat

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