The Calumet news., 1912-09-07
AVIATION MEET
OPENS MONDAY
Air Men of international Reputa'
tion are Entered

+ Chicago, Sept. 7.-America's third in
ternational aviation meet. which opens
Monday, Will establish a new mark
for America In the number of aviators
of international fame entered. Chief
of these are the pilots of the foreign
and American racers who compete in
the Gordon Bennett worlds cham
pionship aeropane race, the first event
of the meet.
The meeting embraces daily mono
plane and blplane handicap races,
scratch biplanh and monoplane race
which is designed 10 give further dem
onstration of the skill of the Gordon
Rennett drivers, and a 40 hlometer
race for all types handicapped. Other
contests are bomb and mail throwing,
accuracy landing contests from heights
of 900 feet without a motor and sim
liar events in which skill of the OPP
orator is tested
| This Is the fourth time aeropanes
have been matched for the worlds
championship. as typihed by the $lO.-
600 silver trophy given by James Cor
don Rennett IN 1905 to be contended
for annually by licensed pilots of the
Federation Aeronautiquc lnternation-
ale.
Curtiss First Winner.
Twice before Il single American en-
trant has driven his aeroplane ahead OF
his competitors and brought the sill
yer trophy to America. Glenn II. Cur
tiss was the first winner at Rheims,
France Aug. 2S. 1909 His biplaue fin
shed the 12.4 mile race in II minutes
so seconds. or five seconds ahead OF
the looked-for winner. Bleriot's mono
plane There were five starters but
only four OF the flyers were able TO
cover the distance, which then was
considered an almost impossible jour
ney for an aeroplane.
In New York, on the Belmont Parl,
aerodome. the second contest, was held.
The course had been heightened To lOC
kilometers. (62.14 miles) and Claude
Grahame White, England's best knowT
lirman, won in II minutes four sec
onds; in the first 100-horse power
Bleriot monoplane built. Alfred La
J blanc OF France led in the race i'm q
similar machine, up to the last lap o
the field. when he ran out of gaso-
line and in landing, crashed into tel
agraph pole and smashed his aero
plane
Grahame Whites victory took the
trophy 10 England where il was con-
tested for in 1911 on the Isle of Shep-
py at East church, July l. Charles
rerres Weymann, sole American en-
, trant again. went up in a 100 horse
, power Nieuport monoplane and cap
: tuFed the trophy His time for th'
l50 kilometers was 81 minutes 36 sec
I onds. a speed Of 7S miles an hour
I then a worlds record. Loblane, agaiI
: after the world championship, had I,
content himself with second. beinl
! two minutes slower than Weymann.
q Speed Determines Winner.
! Speed alone determines the winner
there being no restriction on the con
e struction of the aeroplane. Because q
q the high speeds attained, few aviator:
I have cared to enter, and in the three
events. nelu previously q Noahi Va 'iih
teen entrants only appear on the lists
This year the race has been length
: ened to 200 kilometers G24' milcs)
J. and the course was laid out as M
: elipse of Ala miles, requiring thirty
: laps to complete the races. In th'
French elimination trials Jules We
drines made a speed of 100 miles al
hour which established eXpectance a!
= to what speed would be made by thu
= choice machines of the six nations
@ ompetng-America. England, France
Holland, Belgium and Switzerland.
= France designated Jules Vedrine'
F; and Maurice Provost. pilots of Deper'
I lussin monoplane. as its representa-
II tives, England had named Claude era
g hame White Gustave Hamel an'
n George Dyott, but it was not certain
3 until the last minute just who would
= make the actual flights.
Z American Not Yet Chosen.
: Belgiums representative, Charlie