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1912 - 0465.PDF
MAY 25, 1912. delivery of aeroplane. In the event of its being desired to change to a different flyer, permission must be asked for in writing (stating the name and certificate number of the proposed substitute) from the Judges Committee. 15. Penaltyfor false statement.—Any entry containing any state ment, which in the opinion of the Judges Committee is misleading, may be declared null and void. 16. The Competition will take place in accordance with the published Rules and Regulations attached. Rules and Regulations. 1. Definitions.—The word " Competitor " shall include any person or corporate body making entry for or taking part in the Com petition, and shall include the flyer, mechanic or passenger, other than the official observer. 2. The word " Passenger" shall include the flyer and mechanic, and shall mean a person of not less than 18 years of age and weighing not less than 132 lb., provided that any deficiency in weight may be made up by means of ballast or by excess of weight in the other passenger. 3. The word " Aeroplane" shall be inclusive of the entire apparatus, as submitted for test, including the engine and usual accessories. 4. The word " Person " shall include one or more persons or a corporate body. 5. Every " Competitor " shall be presumed to be acquainted with and shall submit to and be bound by these Rules and Regulations, and any further instructions issued hereafter in regard to the Com petition. Any such further instructions shall be supplementary to and shall not supersede these Rules unless with the consent of the Judges Committee. All words herein defined shall in all such instructions be deemed to bear the same meanings as herein expressed unless the contrary is specifically declared in such further instructions. 6. Entrant responsible for Flyer.—The entrant shall be responsible for all acts or omissions on the part of his flyers, passengers, and mechanics, and each or any may be held responsible for any infraction of these Rules. 7. Competitors must be Registered.—No flyer shall be allowed to fly an aeroplane in the Competition unless he be a holder of the Flying Certificate issued by the Royal Aero Club, or such foreign certificate as is recognized by it. Nevertheless, any individual flyer may be refused permission to fly in the Competition without any reason being assigned. 8. Change of Flyer. —Each aeroplane shall be flown throughout the Competition by the same person. If a change of flyer is necessi tated the consent of the Judges Committee mun be obtained after reasons given in writing and signed by the competitor. 9. Identification Marks.—Every aeroplane shall, during the Com petition, carry in a conspicuous place the numbers or other identification marks allotted to it by the Judges Committee. 10. No Advertisements to be Carried.—No conspicuous advertise ment or trade sign, other than small plates carrying the name of the -aeroplane or of the mnker, shall be carried, and no advertisement shall be distributed from any aeroplanes during the Competition. [/OGHT 11. Overtaking and Passing.—Passing, overtaking and crossing shall be governed by the rules issued separately. 12. Dangerous Flying.—Flying considered by the Judges Com mittee to be dangerous to other competitors or to the public will involve such penalties to the competitor, including possible disqualification, as the Judges Committee may see fit to impose. 13. Enclosure.—No person except the officials, the flyers and their assistants, for whom a strictly limited number of personal permits must be obtained, shall be allowed within the enclosures and trial tracks except with the special permission of the Judges Committee. 14. Postponement or Abandonment.—The Competition and each item thereof may be postponed or any item abandoned at the discretion of the Judges Committee, and in the event of such post ponement or abandonment no competitor shall, except as provided herein, have any claim against the Judges Committee or the War Office. 15. Control oj the Competition.—The supreme control of the Competition will lie with the Judges Committee. Officials will be appointed by the Judges Committee. 16. Duties and Powers.—The Judges Committee shall decide the winning and the placed competitors. Their decision shall be final and without appeal. Nevertheless, nothing herein shall prevent the Judges Committee from correcting a mistake. No decision of the Judges Committee shall give any claim lo a competitor who is subsequently shown to have failed to observe these Rules, or who shall have been disqualified or otherwise have been ineligible. 17. Interpretation.—The Judges Committee shall alone have power to interpret, alter, amend or cancel any of these Rules and the other instructions issued relative to the Competition, and to forego any test or any requirement, or to enforce other or further require ments in particular cases, either arbitrarily or with a view to obtaining the information necessary to make their award. The following particulars have to be filled in on the entry form, which, as usual, contains a clause indemnifying the Secretary of State for War against any damage done to any property of the War Department, or to any fellow competitor or any third party :— 5. Brief description, whether biplane, position of propeller, price, &.C. 6. Intended flying speed in m.p.h. 7. Smallest gliding angle with the horizon which the competitor considers that he can safely achieve. S. Weight of entire aeroplane empty in lbs. 9. Whether the aeroplane can stand still without being held while the engine is running. 10. Whether the engine can be started from on board the aeroplane by the flyer in charge in the supposed absence of the passenger. II, Make, nominal h.p., number of cylinders, bore and stroke in m/m. 12. Brake h.p. given on the bench throughout a 6 hours' run unsilenced. 13. Mean speed of the engine in r.p.m. for test 12 above. 14. Weight of engine complete in lbs. 15. Whether the engine is air or water cooled. 16. Fuel consum) • tion per hour during test 12 above in lbs. 17. Total oil put inlo engine for and during test 12 above in lbs. 18. Capacity of petrol tank in gallons. 19. Capacity of oil tank in gallons. The pai- ticulars given above (paragraphs 5—19) are accurate, to the best of my/our knowledge and belief. ® ® ® ® THE "DAILY MAIL" TOUR. M. SAI.MET started oft on his thirteen weeks' tour ot South-West England on the 16th inst., when he flew from Wormwood Scrubbs -toKeading. The Biscuit City gave him an enthusiastic welcome, and seemingly all the inhabitants turned out for the aeroplane's arrival. It was intended that he should come down on the Sports Ground, but owing to the remous he deemed it too dangerous to attempt this and so landed in a meadow close to the Thames. He had made a ten minutes' stop at Taplow on the way. He left Reading on Friday afternoon and after flying for an hour and eight minutes landed at Marlborough, staying there for fifty-five minutes and then continued on to Bath which was reached at half-past seven. During the afternoon the town crier of Marlborough, dressed in his picturesque costume and mounted on a bicycle, went round the town crying the latest news and as soon as word was received that Salmet was on his way there was a general exodus to the Common to await his arrival. Ir was the same thing at Batti, where it is estimated that 10,000 people saw the Bleriot machine land. By that time the pilot was complaining of feeling tired owing to the strain of flying through the wind. The journey was continued to Bristol on Saturday and there it had been arranged that M. Salmet should alight in the County Cricket Ground, but the troublous state of the atmosphere and the restricted nature of the ground induced him to go on, and skirting Bristol on the north, he eventually found a suitable landing place on a hilUide at Mangotsfield. Although it was a somewhat lonely spot, it only needed a very short time for a large crowd to gather and give the aviator the same kind of welcome which he had experienced in the earlier stages. Monday was a rest day, and given up to the over hauling of the machine and its motor, while on Tuesday the journey was to have been continued to Newport and Cardiff, but rain and mist made it practically impossible to do any flying, and so M. Salmet remained at Bristol. A Hydro-Aeroplane In Japan. ® ® ® ® A Parseval Airship for Denmark. A NUMBER of flights were made by Atwater on his hydro aeroplane at Yokohama on the 10th and nth inst., the machine alternately alighting on the sea and on the land. Some of the trials were witnessed by members of the Imperial Family. IT is stated that a group of Danish financiers has offered to place at the disposal of the Danish Minister of War a sum of 30,000 crowns (^1,600) towards the purchase of a Parseval dirigible balloon for the Army. 465 C 2
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