Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-05
CHAIN OF BIG FLYING MEETS
Plan Is to Have Several, Running
from Nay to October.
ENGLAND CENTER OF INTEREST
Large Prizes Are Offered fn Many
Countries, which VIII Attract
Many Of the Most Noted
High Flyers.


Many Of the Most Noted
High Flyers.
NEW YORK, March 4-Though IL is
starting rather late in the day the Aero
Club Of America and the national council
are planning to- hold during the coming
season a chain Of big flying meets. q fea-
ture OF which will probably be Nights
between different aviation fields
Cortlandt Field Bishop. acting chairman
Of the council. Is now circularizing var
ious affiliated out-of-town clubs with a
view 70 organizing a string OF meets
throughout the country to last from May
70 October. These competitions are planned
TO stimulate foreign competition. Mr..
Bishop believing that many foreign airmen
are eager 70 ny in America. but are kept
away because OF the lack OF big prize
money.
In Europe over 100000 has already been
offered in prizes for 1911 The most valua-
bic prizes are for long cross-country flights
that will eclipse all previous efforts in
this direction
The Journal OF Paris has offered prizes
amounting to over $1,000 for a race from
the French capital TO Berlin, Brussels
London and back 10 Paris. the distance to
be covered being. roughly 1900 miles. The
date Professionally fixed for the contest
/ to oDen is June :.
England will be an important aviation
center this year. From Germany. France,
Russia. Italy, Belgium, Holland and Amer
lea the most noted flyers are expected to
congregate in the United Kingdom early
/ in the summer to take part in two great
eompetitions-the international cup race
I - Fey he fnf
race a tour Of 900 miles to be competed
I for during the second week in July, the
/ prize OF $1,000 being awarded to the COM
peutor. who. starting from a point near
London, completes the circuit in the short
/ est time. No competitor must touch ground
when flying from one town 20 another
and the whole circuit must be accomplished
in one week Starting from London the
aviators will lily between Harrowgate. New
castle, Edinburgh Stirling, Glasgow, Car
isle, Manchester. Bristol. Exeter, New
port QsIe of Wight. Brighton, Tunbridge
Wells and back to the metropolis.
Biw PFizes.
Other competitions for the year abroad
comprise the Southern France circuit flight
for $4,000, the Rome to Turin. the Berlin
Hanover circuit and the Freiburg- Weis-
baden circuit. Prizes are also offered for
flights from Liverpool TO Manchester and
from London to Newcastle, and finally
there win be big prizes in the autumn
| military selection trials OF new aerOplanes
in France for which the government re-
Gently voted a credit Of 10000.
In this country there is prize Of $1,000
for a flight from san Francisco 70 New
York. via Chicago
+. G. Campbell Wood. secretary OF the
Aero Club Of America, says there Is great
enthusiasm In the club over Mr.. Bishop 8
scheme. A good starting place FOR the
American flying circuit. 1t is pointed out,
would be Washington. The aviators could
afterward pass on to Baltimore. Phila-
delphla Atlantic City. Asbury Park. New
york. Boston and Buffalo for meets Of
seven days or longer with shorter stops
at intervening places. After finishing at
| Buffalo the circuit would take the flyers
out to the cities OF the middle west such
as Chicago, Cincinnati. St. Louis and In
disnapolls.
New Men in the Game.
II Is pretty generally agreed that the
day when aeroplanes viii be as familiar
as automobiles are now Is FASTENED more
BY cross-oountry flights than by stunts
in enclosures. Besides flying from one
center 70 another. the aviators in Mr..
Bishop's scheme would have the opportu-
nifty. Il il hoped, 20 win valuable prizes
for circuits such as Philadelphia@Atlantio
City-New York-Boston.
who are the men who will take the
places OF tombstone. Hoxsey and Moisant
lin the fight for aviation honors for Amer
lea during the coming season. Members
Of the Aero Club OF America are begin
ming TO feel some anxiety IN regard to the
selection Of team to represent this coun-
try in the international cup race in Lon
don during coronation week.
IL is almost certain the Glenn e. curtiss,
winner Of the trophy in 1903. will not be
a contestant. The HammondspoTt inventor
n devoting all his energies to perfecting
an aeroplane for naval and military pur-
poses. J. A. d. McCurdy. the curtiss flyer,
Is barred by being q British subject. The
flying days OF Charles K Hamilton seem
TO be over.
The plucky little red-headed hero Of the
New k-Philadelphia flight seems to
have never fully recovered from his
smash-up on the Pacific coast in his
ninety-mile-an- hour machine late last
summer. ]. Armstrong Drexel cannot COM
pete, as he Is no longer a member Of the
Aero club. He resigned as protest
against the Statue Of Liberty race award
The Aero Club OF America has been led
TO believe that q new racing machine IL
being developed up az Dayton by the
Wright brothers. P. o. Parmelee Is now
REGARDED IN many quarters as the Wright's
crack eross-country flyer-he now holds
the American duration record-and It looks
az the present time as II America WIN
have 20 look to Parmelee for representa-
ton in the big international overland
nights-
AERO CLUB Is CHALLENGED