New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-14
BIG HYDR0-AER0 MEET
New York Contests on May 4 to
Have Government Aid.
MANY FLYERS TO COMPETE
One Course to Coney Island and
Back, Another Round the
Statue of Liberty.

Formal notice from the Navy Department
at Washington. received yesterday BY the
Aero Club Of America. that the depart
ment would cooperate practically rounds
out the plans for what is designed 10 he
the greatest hydro-aeroplane meet ever
held in the world, scheduled for Saturday,
May 4. in this city.
The meet will he conducted under the
auspices OF the Aero Club OF America. and,
in a sense. will be a cur;ain-raser for the
aviation show which opens May s at
Grand Central Palace.
For some weeks the executive committee
for the meet composed Of W. Irving
Twombly. chairman; Otis Fenner Wood.
Charles +. Spratt. Roger q. Whitman. Lud-
we'll b. Alexander and Alfred Reeves. has
been quietly developing it's plans. and is
now able 10 promise a most interesting ex-
hibition to the public. No gate money will
be charged and no fees exacted. not even
entrance fees from manufacturers or avi-
ators.
The official headquarters on the day OF
the meet will be at the house Of the CO.
lumbia Yacht Club, at seth street and North
River, and the course OF the distance
speed contest. without passenger, will ex-
tend 10 a point opposite the house OF the
Atlantic Yacht club at Sea Gate, Coney
Island, and return.
The passenger carrying speed contest will
be around the Statue Of Liberty and return:
and the winner will receive the Aviation
Show Trophy, which has been given to tine
Aero Club OF America by the international
Exposition Company. The trophy is the
magnificent statuette, Aviation Giving
Wings to Man" which won a gold medal
at the Paris Salon OF 1910
The blue ribbon" prize-that for the
distance-speed contest-will be to hydro
aeroplaning what the Gordon Bennett tro-
ply is TO aviation. and will carry with It. a
substantial cash prize as well.
In addition to TIE events noted. the pro-
gramme embraces bomb dropping upon TIE
decks Of real battleships quick getaway
contests. accurate alighting competition.
capturing Of free balloons. carrying orders
for aerial scouts from battleships as in real
warfare and returning information to bat
tleships by means OF special weighted mes
sage carriers.
Among the entrants are Harry N At
wood. Frank G. Coffyn, Walter Brookins.
George w. Beatty. Hugh Robinson and
Grover c. Loernng.
Hugh Robinson will hy the Curtiss ma
chine with which he made fine record =.
the recent Mediterranean meet. Atwood
will appear in the hydro-aeroplane of mis-
own design the machine in which he ex.
meets 10 make his transatlantic flight i'm
r,ediately following the aero show. For
Coffvn the Wrights are now building their
later six-cylinder machine with muffied
motor. The Curtlss company will have two
entrants besides Robinson; the Burgess
comnanv and Curtis. of Marblehead. two.
and the Max Ans Machine Company now
have under construction two machines II
different types for the meet. Walter Brook
inc and George w. Beatty will compete
With machines Of their own design, while
Looming will ny the first hydro monoplane
o,.or huilt. also a machine Of his own de-
sign. The United states government VIII
control and patrol the course.
The winning machines will get the places
NJ honor at the aero show. which will
throw omen its doors on May S.
RuIes governing the contest are now be-
tre formulated by Henry 4. Wise Wool.
chairman of the marine committee OF the
Aero Club of America and VIII shortly be
made public.
America is the father Of the hydro-aero-
nlape and this Is not lost TO view by the
Aero Club. which is Lending every enort 10
make the affair the greatest yet heid'