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JUNE 12, 1909. are likely to make use of the course, so that the Com- mittee may have some idea as to what support will be forthcoming. Railway Arrangements.—The following reduced fares have been arranged with the railway company for members visiting Shellbeach :— Tst Class Return 2nd Class Return 3rd Class Return Ss. 6s. 6d. 55. These tickets will be available for one month from date of issue. Members desiring to avail themselves of these reduced fares are required to produce vouchers at the booking offices. Vouchers can be obtained from the Secretary of the Aero Club. Trains leave Victoria, Holborn, or St. Paul's. For the convenience of members, the best train is the 9.45 a.m. from Victoria, arriving at Queenborough 10.55. At Queenborough change to the Sheppey Light Railway for Leysdown (Shellbeach), which is J-mile from the flying ground. The Club House, Muscle Manor, is now open to members, and refreshments can be obtained there. Until the ground is being regularly used it is, however, advisable to send a telegram so that arrangements may be made. Telegrams should be addressed " Aero Club, Shellbeach, Eastchurch." Members proposing to visit the Aero Club flying ground at Shellbeach are reminded that access to the aeroplane sheds or works can only be obtained with the consent of the owners of the flying machines. Balloon Ascents in 1908. During the year 1908, 203 ascents were made by members of the Aero Club, 652 passengers were carried, and 11,724,320 cubic feet of gas was used. HurlinRham Club and the Aero Club. Members of the Aero Club may be elected Associate Members of the Hurlingham Club on very favourable terms. Full particulars can be obtained on application to the Secretary of the Aero Club. HAROLD E. PERRIN, Secretary. The Aero Club of the United Kingdom, 166, Piccadilly, W. ® © NEW YORK WORLD" £2,000 PRIZE. FROM the Aero Club of America we have received the latest rules and regulations, corrected up to April 7th, governing the competition for the prize of $10,000 offered by the New York World. The contest is open to any type of airship or flying machine, and the prize will be awarded to the competitor who flies from New York to Albany, a distance of about 142 miles. The following rules supersede those published in our issue of February 13th, 1909 :— This'contest will be held as a part of the official programme ofthe Hudson-Fulton Celebration in New York City from September 25th to October 9th, 1909. A prize of $10,000 will be given to the winner of this contest, which is to be held under the rules of the International Aeronautic Federation and under the management of the Aero Club of America. The prize is donated by the New York World and is to the amount of $10,000 for the winner. The Aero Club of America reserves the right to give additional prizes for second and third places or for any special record as such prizes may be donated from such sources as are available. The competition will take place on a day afterward to be decided upon by the committee in charge. The date will be during the period allotted for the celebration, and the committee in charge reserves the right to postpone the event to any subsequent date because of weather conditions, or for any other reasons which to the committee may seem sufficient. All entries must be made in writing before July 1st, 1909, to the Aero Club of America, No. 12, East Forty-second Street, New York, and must be accompanied by an entrance fee of $200 in cash. Seventy-five per cent, of this entrance fee will be returned to actual starters. The Aero Club reserves the right to accept entries at its dis- cretion up to September 1st, 1909, on payment of a $400 cash entrance •.• fee, 75 per cent, of this amount being returned to actual starters. The contest is open to all airships propelled by mechanical means without limitation of the power used or the mechanical principle involved. All airships entered must be mechanically propelled, and the Committee reserves the right to refuse permission to start to I anyone who has not demonstrated his ability to handle his airship by having made at least three successful flights prior to this contest. '".. No airship shall be allowed to enter the contest which has any1 connection with the earth or with any other vehicle or craft. - Each airship shall carry at least one person. Each airship shall . display a numbered pennant to be supplied by the Committee. The starting line will be an imaginary line running through Governor's Island in an easterly and westerly direction, or some similar imaginary line designated by the Contest Committee. Com- petitors can cross this line any time within the limits of one hour as set by the Contest Committee, and their time will be taken, and the flight begun when they cross this line. The finishing point will be a large open field, hereafter to be designated, in the neighbourhood of Albany, and the winner must land in the Mm its of the inclosure selected. The length of the entire course will be reckoned in an air line from New York to Albany. Contestants are at liberty to follow the Hudson River or any other course they may desire within the limits designated. Trials shall continue each day appointed by the Contest Com- mittee between the dates fixed above (September 25th-October 9th, 1909) until the feat is accomplished. Should more than one airship make the flight on any one day within the limit set the prize of Si0,000 will be awarded to the one making the best time, the start being reckoned from the minute of crossing the imaginary line above referred to, and the finish when the pilot steps from his airship at the point referred to above. Should but one contestant succeed in making the flight, the prize will be awarded to him irrespective of the time consumed. The flight from the starting line to the finish at Albany must be made without landing. Each contestant agrees in making his entry that he will abide by the decision of the Contest Committee of the Aero Club of America and waive all rights to contest in the courts any decision of the committee of the Club, or maintain any action in law or equity against the Aero Club of America or the Press Publishing Company. Each conte-tant for himself, his heirs and assigns expressly waives all claim for injuries either to himself or to his apparatus, and agrees to assume all liabilities for damages to third parties or their property, and to hold the Aero Club of America and the Press Publishing Company free and harmless therefrom. The Contest Committee of the Aero Club shall be the sole judge o'f the suitability of the weather for the flight, and the Contest Com- mittee reserves the right to postpone the contest on any day it may deem the weather to be unfavourable. No member of the Contest Committee can take part in this event, either as aeronaut, assistant, or passenger. The contest will be conducted by the Special Committee to be named by the President of the Aero Club of America, who is ex-officio a member of this Special Committee, which shall embody the Contest Committee of the Club. No aeronaut, assistant, passenger, or owner of any con- testing machine can serve on the Committee in charge of this event. The committee reserves the right, with the consent of all the contestants entered, to change these rules in any particular which circumstances may render advisable. All questions not included in these rules will be decided by the rules of the International Aero- nautic Federation. The winner of the contest will receive the commemorative gold medal of the Aero Club of America, and the other competitors who accomplish the full course a silver medal of the Club. Should the feat of sailing through the air from New York to Albany be accomplished prior to the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, the Contest Committee reserves the right to make such changes in the conditions as would make the winning of the prize an un- precedented feat or a record for distance. Each competitor agrees not to exhibit any airship entered for this contest for money or prizes offered directly or indirectly by any other newspaper than the Ne-M York World prior to or during these contests. 345
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