Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-17
AERIAL CRAFT To
De IN L|MEL|GHT
Indianapolis Follows Los Angeles
in Arranging a Week of
AirShip Events

Indianapolis in the "limelight" has
become more than name as the re-
cent arrangement with the Wright
company for the aviation meet, June
13 to Is, when an entire week will be
given to aerial flights and the numer-
Gus automobile events which are the
plum dates for 1910. make Indianapolis
the place on which the spotlight will
be focused this season.
The National Championship Balloon
meet which the Speedway has secured
for September II stands rather lonely
among the attractions of greater i'm
portance, but still it is of sufficient
Importance to be worthy of notice.
The Wrights have given their con-
sent to have this an open meet, so that
It only remains to arrange to permit
the large number of aviators an OPP
portunity in order to secure their en-
tries.
The Wrights have shown their de-
termined intention of being among the
prize-winners from the fact that they
are entering from five to eight ma
chimes of their own make with a team
of the most skillful aviators the world
has ever known. These aviators are
now being trained at Montgomery
Ala, bv Orville Wright, where five of
the Wright machines are being oper-
Fully twenty pupils are being taught
as the Wrights have come to realize
that the world has now accepted avia-
ton and 1t remains for them to give
them a taste of the new method of
locomotion.
The following events will form but
a part of the program for the races
aviation week:
Event No. 1-For the machine start
tfNe fCf
Event No. 2-For the start from the
shortest distance regardless Of method
for rising in the air.
Event No. 3-For the machine making
a complete circuit of the speedway
track nearest to the ground.
Event No. 4-For the machine MAX
ing the fastest lap of the speedway re-
gardless of height.
Event No. 5.-For the machine max
ing the fastest ten miles.
Event No. 6-For the machine land
ing nearest to a given spot. Machine
must land within a given area to re-
ceive a prize.
Event No. For the machine max
ing the slowest lap of the course in the
air
Event No. S.-For the machine re-
naming in flight for the longest time
duration price.
Events Nos. 9 to 16-Speclal Inatcl
races between the various contestants.
Events Nos. 20 to 25-Handicap
events between the various aeroplanes.
Events Nos. 25 to 30-Carrying vari-
ous numbers of passengers at fast and
slow speeds, near the ground and at
high attitudes.
Saturday, June IS, last day of Avia-
ton neet-Special trials for record high
flights. Also cross country flights over
the state of Indiana.
In all these events there will be spe-
cial cash prizes, TROPHIES and medals,
with additional bonuses for lowering
existing world records.
The entrance fee shall be $100 for
each machine entered in these contests.
one entrance fee pays for entry in all
events.
There will. without doubt. be addiy
tional events for dirigible craft, but
these become of slight minor import
ance compared to the great aviation
meet which will be the opening meet
for the season of 1910.
Special efforts are being made to
have both Orville and Wilbur Wright
fly at this meet in exhibition flights
Aviation blanks are being prepared for
entrants and will be issued embodying
the events specified above