Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-16
Aviation Race
Not to Fastest,
is Indication
Air Track for Championship Meet
Too Small for High
Speed.

NEW YORK, oct. 15.-While II is be-
leved that most Of the worlds records Will
20 by the board at the International Avia-
ton tournament at Belmont Park l.. l.,
october 22-SO. It is not so certain that all
the speed prizes will go to the swiftest.
Two air courses have been marked out
on the race track, one five kilometers
around, and the other two and one-half
kilometers. Only the American elimination
trials and the race for the international
speed cup will be flown over the larger
course, The rest Of the speed events will
take place on the two and a half kilo-
meter circuit. This will give an advantage
to the slower and more easily managed
American biplane. 1t will be next to Inn
possible, II is said, to make the small
circle at sixty miles an hour. At the
western end Of the course the pylons form
such a sharp angle that any attempt to
drive a monoplane round the corner at
anything approaching sixty miles an hour
will end in disaster and possibly in a
collision with the grand stand.
James Radley, a member Of the team
selected by the Royal Aero club Of Great
Britain, was out inspecting the aviation
field at Belmont Park the other evening,
and he expressed the opinion that it would
be impossible to make the turn at the
present speed that an aeroplane can
make. A Mr.. Herring has also condemned
the smaller course as dangerous.
Mr. Herring by the way, has just made
It known that he was the designer Of the
fast machine in which Hamilton came to
grief In Sacramento. This flyer, which is
115 horsepower.
Memhars of the AarO CIuh of Aunarica
are getting a little anxious over the makeup
Of the American team for the International
Aviation tournament. Although seven
French, three English and a number of
other foreign entries have been resting
in the safe at the tournament headquar-
ters for some days, so far not one Amer
lean has Officially signified his intention
OF taking part in the meet. The last day
on which entries can be received for the
elimination trials for the international
speed trophy is october 15 Not only are
the Americans needlessly slow over send
! ing in their entries, but with one or two
exceptions they are all without the neces-
sary pilots license The Wright flyers and
Charles X. Hamilton are among those who
so far have not gone to the trouble Of
being o. KID by their national aero club
Glenn H. Curtiss, the present holder of the
international speed trophy, has, Of course
license.
| The American aviators have always beer
inclined to ignore the rulings Of the Inter,
national Aeronautic Federation, and have
In fact, several times threatened to form
a federation OF their own. However &
they intend to take part in the big meet
the American aviators must get licenses
Such men as Brookins tombstone, Franl
| Coffyn, Hoxsey, Hamilton and Willard
would not be compelled to show thell
wings before being granted licenses. witt
their string Of records, they can get tn,
needful pieces Of parchment for the mer,
asking.
AK ogilvie. the third member of tn
English team, has at last made known hi
whereabouts. Some weeks ago word wa
received from London that he was some
where In this country but Just where tn
Royal Aero club Of Great Britain did no
know. It was suspected in this countr,
that he was secretly practising at one o
the Wright brothers private training
grounds This has proved TO be the case
Ogivie, who has never used any othe
machine but Wright, has been for som
time with Wilbur and Orville Wright a
Dayton, o.