Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-21
WILL PUT UP
BIG REWARDS
FOR AWATORS
"AVIATION WEEK" PRIZE LIST
is NEARLY COMPLETED
QUESTION OF SITE WILL BE
SETTLED BY TOMORROW
Interesting Papers on New Science to
Be Exploited Here Will Be
Read to Public This
Evening

The complete list of prizes for Avia-
tion week will be announced by Thurs
day. The committee practically has
approved the list, and President IL.
La V. Twining of the Aero Club of
California has forwarded copy to the
Aero Club of America, by which the
question of approval will be taken up
tomorrow night. Neither the members
of the Aviation week committee nor the
officers of the Aero Club of California
expect any difficulty In obtaining the
sanction.
The question of a site will be settled
by tomorrow, when the Aviation week
committee will hear a report from the
subcommittee appointed to investigate
the sites. Locations to the south of
| the city, where there are long level
stretches suitable for flying, are being
considered most favorably.
AS soon as the site is chosen definite
ly a large amount of additional printed
matter will go out advertising the
events. The Pacific Electric passenger
department is arranging to issue 10000
pieces on Aviation week Immediately
following the selection of a location.
Aviation Meeting Tonight
Another aviation evening will be
conducted by the Aero Club of Cali
fornia tonight at the assembly hall of
| the chamber of commerce. j. E. Gies-
| SELL who has seen a number of aero
| plane flights by Wilbur Wright, Glenn
| II. Curtiss and other aeroplanists, will
speak on What Flying Looks Like"
Jack Prince, who made balloon trips
| twenty-five years ago, will compare
ballooning of that day with present
methods. President Twinlng will tell
what afflliation with the Aero Club of
| California and thereby with the Inter
national Aeronautic federation means
to the Aero club of California. The
| meeting will be open to the public.
The advance sale for the benefit per-
formance of 1.-THE Toymaker," at the
| Grand Opera house, Thursday after
| noon, indicates the interest taken in
i Aviation week. Ferris Hartman has
induced Dick Ferris to make talk
between acts on what Aviation week
means to Los Angeles, and also has Sc
cured c. f. Willard Lincoln Beachey
and Roy Knabenshue for short speeches
on aerial subjects A feature of the
advance sale for THE Toymaker" has
been the out -of-town demand for Avia-
tion day seats.
Summary of Prizes
The following is an incomplete sum-
mary of the prizes offered:
The grand prizes of $4,000 each. One
for aeronefs, or heavier than air ma
chimes. including aeroplanes; one for
dirigible airships, and the spherical
balloons.
A second grand prize of $500 for
aeroplanes.
Three prizes of $4,000 each for break
ing any worlds record for aeroplanes.
One is for the aeroplane breaking the
worlds record for speed, a second for
breaking the worlds record for height
and a third for breaking all records for
length of time in the air.
Lesser prizes are offered for aero
, plane feats-such as making the
| smallest circular flight, leaving the
ground in the shortest length of time
for greatest stability. and for the best
landing nearest designated point.
Several of the aeronef prizes are de-
| signed exclusively for machines built
by residents of California, Arizona and
Nevada. These include aeroplane flights
of five miles or less.
Fine Reward for Soaring
A prize of $25O0 is offered for ma
chine of any type that can soar, not
glide, for twenty minutes without
any power except that exerted by the
aviator himself Soaring is supposed
to be the next greatest achievement
in aviation. and the Wright brothers
now are working on plans to accom-
plish it, It is to stimulate effort toward
this achievement that the aviation
committee has included soaring prizes.
Prizes for which the amounts have
not been set will be granted for the
most original and practical demonstra-
ton of the possibilities of any aeronef
and for the best demonstration of the
military uses of an aeroplane, as sug-
gested by any aviator.
The grand prize for aeronefs of $4,000
is for the achievement of the best
average now considered possible. 1t
may be termed a combination prize, as
to be won it requires duration, alti-
tude, distance and speed flights. 1t is
designed to make the Los Angeles
events a pacemaker for aviation in 1910.
$4,000 for Flight to Bay City
The grand prize for dirigibes is an
offer to the dirigible ariship of any
capacity which will be the first to sail
to San Francisco from Los Angeles
aviation field without an intermediate
| landing. This is less than one-half
the distance covered by Count Zeppelin
in his famous flight last summer, and
two of the entrants with dirigibles
claim they can accomplish it.
| n
the dirigible of any capacity sailing
to San Diego and return without a
landing over an air line distance of
175 miles. This and the grand prizes
will serve to give persons not ac-
quainted with California some idea of
the distances across the state.
Two prizes of $1,000 each are offered
for dirigibles making the best general
average in flights and in the races.
The dirigible races will undoubtedly
prove exciting, as it will be the first
time that airships will be lined up like
race horses and start together from a
given point. They will sail over
! designated course and return to fly over
line laid off by the judges. race
of this kind is planned to take place
each day of the meet at aviation field.
Rewards for Endurance Flights
Special prizes of $500 each are offered
to dirigibles for endurance flights, dis
tance flights and similar trials. A prize
is provided for night flight which eX-
ceeds that made by Roy Knabenshue
over the business section of Los An
geles last winter.
4 The grand prize for balloons will be