Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-13
RULES PREPARED
FOR AVIAT0RS
METHOD FIXED FOR PRIZE
COMPETITIONS
CHAIRMAN BISHOP ARRANeEs IN
TEREsTINe SCHEDULE
Aeroplanes Must Proceed from Right
to Left ard Nes Fly Over
Crowd Without Per-
mission

Coprtland Field Bishop, chairman Of
the aviation Judges and president OF
the Aero club of America, has worked
out the following rules and program
for the meeting:
All ayiators before staring must no
tify the judges for which prize they
are about to compete. The time OF
starting will be taken when the aero
plane crosses the line between the two
posts opposite the grandstand in fight.
All aeroplanes must make complete
circuit outside of the pylons and there
will be a Judge stationed at each end
of the field to see that no aeroplane
passes inside the posts. All aeroplanes
must proceed in a direction contrary
to the movement of the hands of a
watch: that is, from left to right,
down the hill and around the course.
If for any reason aviators desire to
stop they should, If possible, proceed
inside the course in order to remain
out of the track of other aeroplanes,
Aviators must not fly over the
srandstand or any place where
crowd is assembled without permission
of the Judges. Aviators violating this
rule will be penalized. In contests tor
height prizes aviatOrs must start IN
the usual direction, proceed around
the course and then pass over a bal
loon which will be suspended some
where near the judges stand Ar
rangements will be made to calculate
the highest altitude attained at or
about a point above the balloon men
toned. They must then proceed across
to the course and around, always in
the same direction.
Aviators who do not make flight
every day between the hours Of 2 and
5 o'clock D. m. of one complete circuit
of the course in competition for the
speed or endurance contests will be
penalized !. per cent of their best time
for the prize. The length of the course
is 1.61 miles.
May Choose Own Time
For the various prizes offered an
aviator is at liberty to compete at any
time after 2 o'clock on the days of
the meet He can make as many at
tennis as he wishes to lower his rec
ord and the prize will be awarded on
the basis of the classification made at
the end of the meet on January 20.
Competitors have the right Of ap-
peal for fifteen days to the Aero club
of America from any decision Of the
Judges and after that period the prizes
viii be paid to the winner.
The prizes will be awarded as fol-
lows:
A speed prize for the best ten laps
during the meet of $4,000, $4,000 and $500.
Endurance prize for the aeroplane
covering the greatest distance in con-
tinuous fight, $4,000, $4,000 and $500.
Passenger carrying prizes: For the
aeroplane making the best time car
rying a passenger for three laps of
the course. the passenger to weigh $50
podnds (any deficiency to be supplied
by balast). $1,000 and $500.
Prize for slowest Lap
A prize Of $500 will be awarded to
the aeroplane which makes the slowest
lap at any time during the meet.
A starting prize of $3.50 will be
awarded to the aeroplane which leaves
the ground in the shortest distance at
any time during the meet. Another
prize of $3.50 win be awarded to the
aeroplane leaving the ground in the
shortest time during the meet.
A prize of $1,000 will be awarded for
the fastest lap made by any aero
plane on any day during the meet.
A prize of $3.50 will be awarded to
any aeroplane which starts from a
rectangle twenty-five feet square,