BERLIN, July 14, 1908 (UP) -- Count Zeppelin with 15 guests aboard his giant airship, ascended from Friedrichshaven for a 24-hour cruise, the crucial test of all his numerous aeronautic ventures.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 1908 (UP) - Orville Wright, one of the famous Dayton, Ohio, brothers, and America capture the honor of accomplishing the most marvelous feat in aviation yet recorded.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 1908 (UP) A shapeless mass of splintered wood, twisted wire, bent tubing and torn canvas, the Wright brothers' aeroplane, which only a few days ago was astonishing the world with its air-conquering exploits, lies inert today on the floor of the "Aerial Garage" at Fort Myer.

BERLIN, Nov. 10, 1908 (UP) - Emperor William of Germany made a flight Tuesday in Count Zeppelin's airship. It was the first trip in the air ever made by a ruler of a nation.

LONDON, March 19, 1909 (UP) - The first aeroplane show ever held in England opened Friday at Olympia, under auspices of the British Aero club.

BERLIN, June 1, 1909 (UP) - Expert mechanics at Goeppingen Tuesday repaired Count Zeppelin's airship, which suddenly terminated its record-breaking cruise of nearly 900 miles by crashing into a tree Monday, badly tearing the forward part of the aluminum envelope and otherwise injuring the big craft.

WASHINGTON, July 8, 1909 (UP) - The weather is hot in the national capital, and the tariff debate is warm and depressing. But the hottest thing in Washington is the throng of patients who are suffering with aeroplane fever, the latest disease.

ETAMPS, France, July 13, 1909 (UP) - The greatest aeroplane flight on record was completed Tuesday by M. Bleriot, the French aeronaut, who made a straightaway flight of 28 miles in 56 minutes.

LONDON, July 26, 1909 (UP) - London gave a tremendous welcome Monday to Louis Bleriot, the French aeronaut who crossed the English channel in his monoplane Sunday morning, when 500,000 people met him at the station and another half million cheered him on his way to the Savoy hotel, where the daring aeronaut was the guest of honor at a luncheon.

WASHINGTON, July 28, 1909 (UP) - Orville Wright, with Lieut. Frank P. Lahm of the United States army signal corps as passenger, broke the world's aeroplane records for time and length of flight at Fort Myer Tuesday evening by flying over 50 miles in 1 hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds. He averaged about 40 miles an hour. President Taft, who saw the test, congratulated Wright.

WASHINGTON, July 31, 1909 (UP) - Orville Wright, with Lieut. Benj. D. Foulois as a passenger, Friday evening fulfilled the most hazardous of the two government tests and won $30,000 for himself and brother by flying 10 miles cross country in 14 minutes and 42 seconds.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 1909 (UP) - Wilbur Wright circled the statue of liberty in his aeroplane Wednesday. Starting from Governors island, he sailed through the air around Ellis island, where his maneuvers threw many immigrants there almost into hysteria, and continued over to Bedloes island.

PARIS, June 3, 1910 (UP) -- Count Jacques de Lesseps, one of three men who have

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 12, 1910 (UP) - Col. Roosevelt defied death late yesterday when he went up in an aeroplane with Aviator Arch Hoxsey. More than 10,000 persons breathlessly watched the flight, fearing the colonel's daring on the spur of the moment might mean his death or injury.