Walter Richard Brookins
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Successful Flights At Montreal Meet
Montreal, Quebec, June 28, 1910. The aviation meet was delayed by a heavy wind until 5:30 this evening. Walter Brookins, of the Wright team, started before the heavy wind had gone down, remaining up nine minutes, 50 seconds. In a second ascent he mounted to an altitude of approximately 4,000 feet and was in the air twenty minutes and thirty seconds. Count DeLesseps made two exhibition ascensions. On his second flight he ascended higher than he has yet done in Canada and in both descended in his usual graceful way. Lachappelle, a member of the Wright team, made good time in speed circles, doing the first lap in two minutes, two seconds. Frank Coffyn, another Wright man, and Walter Brookins, went for a trip together, stayed up for fifteen minutes, twenty-five seconds. This was the first double ascent of the meet."
- Daily Journal and Tribune; Knoxville, Tennessee; June 29, 1910
- Transcribed by Bob Davis in 2003
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Brookins Flight
Montreal, June 30, 1910. Walter Brookins in a Wright machine, accompanied by Bertrand De Lesseps, brother of the count, made a flight lasting twenty-three and one-half minutes and rose to a height of 1,140 feet at the aviation meet here today.
- Daily Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tennessee; June 30, 1910
- Transcribed by Bob Davis in 2003
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20,000 Spectators at Aviation Flights
Montreal, July 2. - "The holiday crowd of 20,000 people which attended the aviation meet at Lakeside today saw eleven flights. One made by Walter Brookins, in his Wright biplane, lasted forty-five minutes. He attained an officially certified height of 3,150 feet. Ralph Johnstone, one of the Wright aviators, smashed his machine beyond repair while making a landing.
- Daily Journal and Tribune; Knoxville, Tennessee; July 01, 1910
- Transcribed by Bob Davis in 2003