Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-04
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AERIAL RACE IS
PLANNED
100000 in Prizes Will Be Of
fered by the Panama-Pa-
cifc Exposition.

NEW YORK. Feb. 4.-The Aero
.-.r..h or America has announced that
.-. next great event in aeronautics in
...s country would be a race around
.,, world for motor driven aircraft.
49, fHe official representative in the
----+ad States of the International
s-ronautical Federation. the club has
eaer asked by the management of the
panama Pacific Exposition to sane
ton the race.
&lreadv Si50.000 has been raised for
..e race. and those having the expo
-f-ton i'm charge say that as much
,,ora will he raised for prizes before
n single craft takes TO the air.
The Aero Club, through Alan r.
r1av.rey its resident, has assured the
70 7an3a- Pacific Exposition manage
,rent that it will sanction the race
nd will cooperate in any way in lts
uower. Full plans for the race have
naan mailed to. the club here, and are
aypected TO arrive within a day or
tvo
The race around the world in the
g.r presents some startling possibili-
res That it is possible to cross over
waiter from continent to continent
ny men WHO nave btodC O. otboy -
8eri9I navigation for years agree.
Trip Carefully Planned.
Those who have laid out the course
for the world race have planned it
rsref,illv and in the entire trip the
longest across water flight is $40
miles This is not prohibitive, for
only recently Garros, the French avt-
7-or flew 500 miles over the Medi-
-arranean from Cannes to Tunis.
The race will start early in May,
1915. from the exposition grounds in
San Francisco. and the contestants
Mill he allowed 80 days in which to
make the flight of $4,000 miles
From the Pacific Coast the aviators
will law course due east across the
Sierra. thence by way of Reno, Kan
s9s city, st. Louis or Chicago to New
York
From New York the machines will
head northeast, following the coast
line 10 Belle Island between New
foundland and Labrador. Here the
real flight across the Atlantic will be-
Elm The first leg of the ever-the-
water fight will be from Belle Island
10 Cape Farewell, at the south end of
Greenland This is a distance Of SO
miles From Greenland the course
lies to Iceland, leg of 670 miles.
From Iceland to Stornaway in the
Hehrides is $40 miles.
Route Through Europe.
In order to fix a definite route GER
tain cities have been selected as
points of visitation and the contest
ants must either stop at them or pass
over them in order to comply with
rha rules and to be reported. After
reaching Scotland the aviators will
traverse well-known aeroplane lanes
by the way of Edinburgh. London,
Paris. Berlin, Warsaw, St Peters,
burg Moscow, and then across ST.
IBERIA. following the lines of the
Trans Siberian Railroad down
through Manchuria to Vladivostok.
The flight will then be across the
sea to Korea. then over the Japan Sea
10 Kobe After making the stop in
Japan, the contestants will head
north 10 Kamchatka, in Siberia. and
then running north to East Cape,
which is only 80 miles across water
10 Alaska. thence from Vancouver to
Seattle, from the latter stop flying
direct to San Francisco
The winenr of the race will receive
100000, the second man 100000 and
the third $4,000. Other prizes,
amounting to S150,00G more, to be d.
N'ded among the other contestants,
according to a scale not yet made
public This fund will come from
individuals and from cities along the
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