Evening star., 1933-04-28
National Aeronautics Body
to Suspend All in Un-
sanctioned Event.
DERBY CHIEF SAYS. PLAN
WILL NOT BE CHANGED
Langley Day Program at College
Park May z Expected to
Have rs Entrants.

at College Park May 7 under auspices
Of the Washington Air Derby Associa-
ton and the Greater National Capital
Committee has assumed Nationwide
importance to amateur pilots as one OF
a series Of meets unsanctioned by the
powerful National Aeronautical Asso-
citation threatening to smash the long
established power Of the governing
body which for years has ruled sports
aviation with an iron hand.
Realizing the threat against its rule,
the National Aeronautic Association, 1t
was disclosed today, has written what
Is described by amateur pilots repre-
sentatives as an "ominously threaten
ing letter" to al holders of Federation
Aeronautique 1nternationale pilots IL
censes threatening to suspend them Tor
participating in any meet not sane
toned by the association.
The F. A. l. license is required OF
al pilots participating in sanctioned ar
meets in the United States. In Its let
ter the association has warned pilots
it will suspend any person who SHAH
enter for. act as pilot in. ofhciate. or
In any manner whatsoever take part
in an unsanctioned competition for a
period Of not less than one year, ex-
cept in cases of meets where the prize
money is more than $4,000. in which
case the suspension will be for not less
than three years"
Plans Not Changed.
Chester H. Warrington. president OF
the Washington Air Derby Association
and chairman of the contest commit
tee in charge Of the Langley Day meet.
said today that plans for the meet Will
60 forward without change. He ex-
pressed the opinion that the stand OF
the N. A. A. against unsanctioned
meets would in no way affect the Col.
lege Park air events. None OF the 75
pilots expected to enter, he indicated.
were thought to be holders of F. A. 1
licenses He admitted the N. A. A
ban, however, would probably prevent
the participation in the meet OF tbs
so-called professional air race pilot"
Ofhcials of the National Aeronautic
Association, headed by former Senator
Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, ma
tional president, have made no effort
to prevent the holding of the College
Park meet other than to threaten sus-
| pension of the licenses OF F. A. I
| pilots participating. it was pointed out
The fight between the National Aero
!
! which began a year ago at the national
air races In Cleveland, when strike"
of competing pilots threatened for q
time to prevent the races, is reaching
climax this year in the College Park
meet and others planned in various
| parts of the United States to be held
without sanction.
First Lady Participant.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is ex-
| pected to act as honorary chairman for
one of the meets which is under the
N. A. A. ban-a national sportsmen
at Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Other
unsancticned meets are expected to be
held as sectional events in Atlanta next
June; at Springfield, Mass, also in June.
and at Indianapolis early in Septem-
Der.
One of the chief threats against the
N. A. A. rule, however, is to be the
All-American Air Races, scheduled to be
held in Chicago July IA, not only
without N. A. A. sanction but in direct
competition with the sanctioned Ma
tional Air Races, to be held in Los
Angeles at the same time.
Open defiance Of the National Aero
nautiC Association was voiced today in
the Sportsman Pilot, monthly organ
Of amateur pilots and mouthpiece for
the Amateur Air Pilots Association, of
which Mr.. Warrington Is local governor.
Now neither the national nor the
sectional amateur meets have the bless
ing of the N. A. A." it was stated in
the organ Of the sportsmen flyers.
'"They don't need N. A. A. sanction
and they don't want it. Indeed they
would be very foolish to consider it
even If it were offered on a silver
platter after the way the N. A. A.
betrayed the A. A. p. A. and ruined
amateur participation in the National
Air Races last year. Moreover, the
amateur association is strong enough
to stand on its own two legs, as it is
demonstrating even now, and it will
ing to do so.
N. A. A. Getting Panicky.
In fact, the A. A. P. AS activities
are assuming such impressive propor-
tions that the N. A. A. is obviously get
ting panicky. Apparently it fears that
it will be dethroned, that it is losing its
tyrannical grip on American aviation.
It was content to ignore sport flying for
many years; 1t never once held out its
hand to give it boost. But now, when
some one else has ulSCUVcIcU WlldL d
source Of aviation power sport flying is,
and has taken the time and labor to
organize it, the N. A. A. suddenly de-
cides it must do something about it
so it threatens pilots who would enter
the unsanctioned temple and at the
same time tries to lure them into its
own sanctioned edifice by suddenly Gre
ating Committee on Private Flying
and Flying Clubs committee which,
in its every policy and purpose, would
plagiarize and duplicate the work which
The Amateur Association and Aviation
Country Clubs have been carrying on
energetically these five years now.
What's worse. though, the N. A. A. ad-
mits it doesn't intend to do much with
its committee.
Thus a good many pilots who are
members Of both A. A. p. A. and N. A. A.
stand at fork in the road. They
must, out of the very circumstances of
the situation. choose which way their
allegiance is"
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