The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
American, English and French Contestants WiIITry for
 New Records
CHARLES X. HAMILTON
 HAS BIGGEST MACHINE
Prizes of Five and Ten Thousand DOI- lars Are Offered for yariOu- ts nnd Large Nun
 Entries Are

New York, October 21.-Three machines
 of different types, manned by aviators of
 two competing nationalities, took the air
 at the same time this afternoon In prac- | tice for the international aviation meet
 which opens at 30 tomorrow at Belmont
 park race track, under the auspices of | the Federation Aeronautique Interna-
 tionale. represented in this country by
 the Aero Club of America. They were Archie Hoxsey in new model Wright biplane without front control; James Rad- | ley of Great Britain in a 50-horsepower Bleriot monoplane. and Claude Grahame- White of Great Britain in a Farman bi- plane.
 Other aviators who also made short trial flights were Ralph Johnstone of the
 Wright team and Anthony J. Drexel, the
 American who at one time held the alti- tude record in a Bleriot Just as John
 stone came down John J. Frisbie of
 Rochester. who only recently qualified as a licensed aviator. settled as lightly on the ground as a moth. He had flown across country from his quarters at Min | cola, a distance of six miles. l The most important event of the meet | the event that brought 1t to this country will be the 100 kilometer race for the | Gordon Bonnet international cup, which carries with it a cash prize of s5o00. | The cup was won for the first time by | Glenn H. Curtiss at Rheims, France, on | August 2S 1909. The distance was then only 20 kilometers and Curtiss time was l5 minutes, 50 3-5 seconds. Louis Bleriot was second in IS minutes. ss1s seconds. His new model monoplane, which holds the worlds present altitude, cross-coun-- | try distance and speed records. will be
 tho most formidable competitor for the
 cup this year
 l The two other most coveted prizes were l those offered by. Thomas Fortune Ryan | for flight from the aviation field to and
 around the statute of Liberty in New
 York harbor and return Cs1o,O00). and by | the Aero Club of America (s5000) for an altitude of 10000 feet or better, which will be added to the regular prize of | 5000 for a new worlds altitude record. The present altitude record is 91S6 feet.
 made at Mourmelon, France, by Henry Wayman. He does not compete in the meet here
 Tn addition to these special prizes a sys- tenn has been formulated by which there will be daily competition of an hour each for altitude and distance, with third
 daily prize for duration based on the total time each aviator has been in the air each day for the various events in which he has competed.
 These averages will all be Jumped at the end of the meet to determine basis | for division of profits. In all S2.3O0 Is offered in cash prizes. and the aviators will share, according to rank, 70 per Oan ad | cent of every s10o,0oO fraction thereof additional.
 | The 20 hangars in which the 27 aviators who will compete for America, France and England are to house their machines were nearly filled tonight. All aeropianes entered arc now in this country, but some have not been carted out to Bel mont park. Many contestants have more than one machine Grahame- White has three Ble- riot monoplanes and a Farman bipiane.
 Drexel has two Bleriots. Leblanc, who cut short his flight in the Gordon Ben
 nett balloon race, and is now hurryng
 here on fast train, will choose from three Beriots, two of 50-horse power and one of 100-horse power. The Curtiss and the Wright teams have respectively four and three machines of types already seen. and each a new model car that has. never been shown in pub lie.
 Charles K Hamilton has new model biplane equipped with 1l0-horse power eight-cylinder motor. The fastest Bleriots= are of 100-horse power, with IA cylinder revolving Gnome motors. Hamilton has never let his machine out at full speed.
 The only time he tried 1t 1t got out or his control and he had bad smash-up. Not wholly recovered yet from his acci- dent he will compete in the elimination I,x tvil inc Gordon Bennett cup only. He fears pleurisy if he should stay too long aloft in the chilly air.