Evening star., 1933-05-07
OBSTACLES CLEAR
FOR AIR CONTESTS
Langley Day Meet to Be Held
This Afternoon at COL
Iege Park.

With IS amateur pilots entered. a
truce agreed upon between sponsors of
the meet and the National Aeronautic
Association. which had threatened to
withhold its sanction for the affair, and
good flying weather forecast. all OBJ
stacles appeared to have been cleared
from the path of the Langley day meet
this afternoon at College Park Airport,
College Park, Md.
The meet Is to begin at IL o'clock
noon with brief ceremonies, including
the raising of the nag. playing Of the
national anthem and then firing of the
starting gun for the first of a series of
IL flying events which will continue
through the afternoon.
"Slow Race" TO Be Flown.
Under modified rules, the novel SLOW
race" for all types of planes. and q
race for low-powered planes, which had
been the basis for the disagreement be-
tween the sponsors Of the meet and the
National Aeronautic Association, will
be flown. The changes in rules, in
tended to eliminate potential hazards
to pilots participating in these races,
were agreed upon at an eleventh-hour
conference yesterday afternoon.
The meet is being sponsored by the
Washington Air Derby Association and
the Greater National Capital Commit
tee as q purely civic event with the
idea Of giving the sportsmen and the
individual flyer an incentive to use air
craft" No cash prizes will be offered.
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local business organizations and indi-
viduak. The public will be admitted
to the airport without charge. Free
grandstand seats and free parking
space have been provided at the air
port, which is along the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad tracks just east Of the
Washington Baltimore Boulevard at
College Park.
Pilots whose entries had been on
cially accepted up to last night are Miss
Johanna Busse, Miss Grace Raezer,
ence s. Bruce, George Brinckerhoi,
E. w. Stitt, H. Somerville and C. "
Sparrow, all of Washington; L. P.
Sharples, Philadelphia: Lawrence Tur-
nure, New York: r. c. Havens. Brad
ford, Pa; Miss Frances Wflke, Balti-
more; Norman Rintoul, Martinsburg,
w. Va; John H. Lemon, Roanoke, Va;
R. D. Morgan, Newcastle, Del; Holland
Duell, LArchmont, N. Y; H. A. Little,
| jr., Philadelphia: j. p. HARRISON. Le-
moyne, Pa; Richard Bircher. Norris
town, Pa: E. w. Dinga. Long Island
City. N. Y, and Elkin c. Floyd, Nor
folk, Va.
Events on Program.
The events for which they have been
entered include three 30-mile races for
sportsmen pilots flying planes having
respective rated maximum speeds OF lis,
l25 and 140 miles per hour; sports
man-pilot trophy race Of 80 miles for
men and women in planes OF any type.
open or closed, on q handicap basis !;
an acrobatic contest; SLOW race"
which will be won by the plane requir-
ing the greatest time to fly the course: !:
q 20-mile race open to planes powered
with war time OX-5 engines: deadstick
landing contest; a 20-mile handicap au-
togiro race; an aircraft model contest; a
30-mile race for women pilots only, and
| a bomb dropping contest. Trophies
will be awarded at the close Of the
meet.
The College Park Airport, home Of
the experimental service Of the De-
partment of Commerce Aeronautics
Branch, is the worlds first regular air.
port, having been used as early as 1910.
The trophies for which the amateur
flyers will compete were donated by C..
H. Warrington, Kempton- Cadillac, Palats
Royal, E. w. Smoot, E. c. Graham.
Credit & Finance, H. B. Leary Bros,
G. c. Brinkerhof, L. s. Julien, j. =.
| Trew, Lee D. Butler, Frank Stewart, F..
L. Haller. julius Garf1nckel, r. Harris
& Co., Standard OIL Co., H. A. L. Bar
ker, Hotel Washington, George w. Har-
ris, Quality Lubricants, Inc; Packard
| Washington, American Oil Co., Aero
Club Of Washington, Shah & Shah,
Evening Star Newspaper Co., Chestnut
Farms Dairy.
Haldeman Is Referee.
George Haldeman, transatlantic hyer,
will serve as referee Maj. E. w. Tip
ton, Baltimore airport manager, will be
starter and will be assisted by Gilbert
G. Budwig, director Of air regulation,
Department Of Commerce, Aeronautics
Branch, and Jesse Landlord, aeronauti-
cal inspector for the department.
Timers will be j. D. Jernigan, Earl
Wordsworth, superintendent Of the con-
tract airmail service, Post Once De-
partment; Fiske Marshall, Department
OF Commerce, Aeronautics Branch; Jim
Kinney, Department Of Commerce pilot
and blind landing expert, and William
o. Hunley.
The judges will be Eugene Vidal, Paul
Collins, 9. o. vass, A. K. Barta. A. c.
Case and Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet,
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