The evening world. Newspaper, October 8, 1919, Page 28

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1919 DAY, OCTOBER 8, i919 §,400-Mile Air Derby Skill, Endurance, Speed, Three Supreme Tests Biggest Feat Attempted ————— | In History of Flying Scenes at Mineola Field Before Start Every Pilot Must Meet Competing Flyers Will Re-| quire Greater Endur- ance Even Than Was) Called For in Crossing) Atlantic, to Cross Mountain Ranges and Cope With Changes in ' Altitude, Wind and) aero For Long Distances Must Fly Over 10,000 Feet in Air, Never Less Than 5,000, Always at 100 Miles an Hour or Bet- ter—and First Man to Finish Wins. f Weather. | then should reeult in the smashing of ; | speed and endurance records in this Thi ‘New York ¥ ‘Apee RUE ate mgt ; a . ‘ y The American Flying Club has of- for successful ed the HEN Comm : iy valiant ¢ ambers of Com- Atlantic in in cities dese NC-4, and] , &c, as the Gove », for the trans y now being con y Air Service | reatest event in the id aviation Alt in this race there will be twenty stops trom New York to Gan Francisco and a like number on the return trip, the flyer Will be called upon to sho @ndurance, even, ten the men who @rossed the Atlantic, failes they will be r & short gontinents ducted by the hefuided as t history of then Alco 1 Brown made the’ points have of- | heroic n aviation enthu These prizes will i siasts nd walted f wrist watches, cig- | for morc wait was | | i nomen still 1 t cash prizes. en intended a one-way rters finishing and the starters their arrival moment Ma}. of Alr Ser- point up. terests which prompted the uld best be served by m take them over mountain ranges, into) ever changing altitudes and force | uphy to be f the United t by the fly= the east- them to take chances against winds which are liable to vary greatly dur ing the many hours that the flight wil take. feet above ev nd from the con- It is the expectation of the Army estants will climb to fect at Air Service that the race will serve a z “ steht, Wolcott, Wyo, As none of the’ pilots twofold purpose: First, it will estab - nt ; , q ee ’ BO ERIDAR will fly at lower than 5,000 feet, this Neh the reliability of the many types neans that at that point the averago Of machines that will take part, an 1] titude will be more than 10,000 feet, secondly, iv ix hoped that it iy From there the altitude will drop arouse such interes in aviw | te until San Francisco, but 16 throughout the country that the , ec ve sea level, is reached. ple themselves will p nt the in At cach of the twenty-one desigs tended military ait 1 towns the racing machines will service t anding it had] je quired to stop for thirty minutes, before wo entered # { CY STANLEY MILLER LT PRANK MIRGY AND [Tho pilots will be permitted to fe \ The men in charge ¢ THe ROuTs Map, ‘ oI Bervice believe that of saving the air servic famate the Army ‘forces and make it a @f the service, just o when the Royal Air e branch land did was cre in the om 100 mach. letters members of Congress who favor of the establishing of a we gervice to their constituents i the support of the plan. Tho letters} will be dropped in localities wht are represented by these Congres men. * Bighty machines have been entered in the fifty-five starting £ Roosevelt Mield, Mineola, and th mainder from Machine has bee Make less (han 1 the entries inclu equipped with erty motors, Mar | motor, machines) | and Malian > Fighter, vos! D Phe agerexate c fe estimated at $750, ; With the exeeptior + Preneh and Italian festants ure of ) Btates Ariuy made enyjuble + wer. Three of th | Ages. A number of these tye past in the New York-Toronto Acriy! ech in thel. — . aki he event a round \ {trip aftair , er