The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
FIGURE PLANES
Altitude Win
FREE FLIGHTS
Tickets to Dedication OF
City Airport Also to Be
Awarded.
BY JOE GLUTZ

BY JOE GLUTZ
Still thinking about those free
night airplane rides over Indianapo-
lis next Thursday?
Well, get your contestin' clothes
out of hook, because the fun starts
Monday At 1890 Monday after
noon, to get down to dots and
dashes.
Nine persons with good sight and
Judgment Of distance will ride as
guests of The Times, Central Aero
nautical Corporation, and the mu-
nicipal airport dedication commit
tee in the big Stinson junior cabin
ship Dick Arnett trundles around
the sky on night passenger hops.
And twenty-seven others will at
tend the dedication program at the
airport Friday, Saturday and Sun
DAY, also as guests of this big tri-
umYerate
How? Well now, as contempo-
rary jester hath it, ats somp'n.
Siren to Be Warming
There will be some strange doings
over the town at 1890 Monday
afternoon. A siren will draw your
gaze to a speck ever so many feet
in the sky where a mystery airplane
will De warning you a week ahead
of time that at 1890 Friday after
noon the big show starts at the
airport
And there's more mystery to this
airplane than as to the homicidal
maniac who bumped off Cock
Robin. That's where you come in.
Trot out all the analytic geome-
try you know throw in dash of
trigonometry for flavoring, and get
q seXtant if you have to, but after
some fashion just tell me how high
that mystery ship is flying when
you see it over town Monday.
The performance will be repeated
Tuesday. And again Wednesday.
And the person who computes near
est the altitude of the mystery
plane each of these three days will
get a ride for two persons in Dicks
Stinson.
Three Contests Offered
Some of you young fellows might
remember what I told you Friday.
There's going to be a moon next
Thursday night-so my last confab
with the weather oracle told me-
Then the person who comes
second nearest the altitude of the
mystery ship each day, will get one
free ride in the Stinson.
Third places rate a pair of season
general admission to the dedication,
and fourth to tenth positions, in
clusively. win single season general
admissions. The rules and regula-
tons more than this are below.
So there will be three contests
in one. Three persons will get free
rides for two, three will get single
trips aloft, and three will get double
admissions, while twenty-one will
walk off with single passes to the
dedication events.
Gave These Rules
Now. get on the mark and wait
for the siren on the mystery ship
at 1890 prompt Monday afternoon.
Here are the rules governing the
contest.
l. Each person computing most accur-
atelv the altitude Of the mystery ship
over indianapolis at 1890 D. m. on each
OF the three days Monday, Tuesday and
wednesday will be awarded free night
ride for two persons over Indianapolis in
the Central Aeronautical Corporations
stinson Junior cabin plane
o Each person computing next closest
the altitude of the mystery ship as out
lined in the first paragraph. will be
awarded a ride for one person.
3. Each person computing third nearest
the correct altitude will receive two sea-
son general admission tickets to the
municipal airport dedication Friday, Sat-
urday and Sunday.
4. Those computing from fourth to tenth
nearest the altitude will receive one sea-
son general admission ticket each to the
dedication.
s. The altitude YOU figure must be re-
ceived by the Dedication Contest Editor
at The Times not later than noon the
dav following each portion OF the contest.
That is. computations for Mondays flight
will not be received after noon Tuesday.
They may be mailed in. or brought in
person to the Dedication Contest Editor.
g. Each contestant NAV submit only one
figure daily.
7. contestant receiving free plane
ride may not win another on later con-
test but may win both a ride and
ticket to the dedication. No contestant
NAV win more than two tickets.
8. Contest open to everyone. except to
employees OF The Times or any airport IN
the city and their families. or members
OF the airport dedication committees ano
their families.
3. The last entries. for Wednesdays
flight. must be in the hands of the con-
test editor by noon Thursday when the
contest officially will be closed