Incidents of the race: Several times collisions in midair were narrowly averted, and whenever two machines passed both rocked perceptibly like ships in a sea in each other’s wake. The wind from Delagrange’s propeller while passing below Latham seemed to create a vacuum and Latham s machine fell forward plunging down a hundred feet. Just as it reached the ground, however, it was righted, and, amid a burst of applause, rose again and sailed on. Bleriot, in the morning, was soaring in his most powerful machine, when suddenly the motor stopped and the propeller ceased revolving. The machine fell and smashed the over-heated engine, which set fire to the escaping petroleum. Assistance was rushed to Bleriot, whose injuries, considering that he had fallen sixty feet, were slight. Latham, with his monoplane, reached a height of four hundred feet in the altitude contest, while, with two passengers, he made the circuit of the course in ten minutes and thirty-nine seconds. At times there were large numbers of machines in the air at the same time, soaring about like immense dragon flies.