{"id":376548,"date":"2018-09-08T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/when-new-yorkers-cheered-dixie\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T08:13:08","slug":"when-new-yorkers-cheered-dixie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/when-new-yorkers-cheered-dixie\/","title":{"rendered":"When New Yorkers Cheered Dixie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Philip Leigh
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September 8, 2018<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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On October 31, 1910\u2014seven years after the Wright Brother\u2019s first airplane flight of less than a minute\u2014seventy-five thousand spectators gathered at Belmont Park to watch a day of competition among pioneering aviators. Events culminated with a thirty-six mile round trip race between Belmont Park to the Statue of Liberty. Only three aviators attempted the trip, which had about one million spectators as they crossed the densely populated borough of Brooklyn. One competitor was British, a second was French and the third was a wealthy American dilettante and adventurer, John Moisant. The three were to take-off in a British-French-American sequence. The winner would be the pilot with the swiftest time, not the first across the finish line.
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The British and French planes were in the sky shortly after three o\u2019clock in the afternoon. Despite his best efforts, however, Moisant could not get his engine started. As a result, his brother bought another plane on the spot for $10,000. It had been used by a contestant in earlier events. As Moisant was continuing his pre-flight preparations his two competitors returned.<\/p>\n

The Englishman recorded the better time of thirty-five minutes and twenty-one seconds (sixty mph). When he landed a band struck up \u201cGod Save the Queen\u201d as a welcoming crowd applauded and waved handkerchiefs. Five minutes later the Frenchman was less enthusiastically greeted, but nonetheless honored as the band played \u201cLa Marseillaise.\u201d Moisant did not get airborne until shortly after four o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n

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