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1907. March 8. Friday at Baddeck [[strikethrough]] 48 
Herald New York 
20 Jan 1907 
French Aeronautics. 
Among other interesting items of aeronautic news is the announcement that a technical institute has been founded by the French Aero Club to encourage the study, arrange lectures and demonstrations and examine into practical proposals of aviation. As usual, M. Santos-Dumont is especially energetic in his own researches, and, as pointed out in a special cable despatch published this morning in our columns, he is busy with a new and promising aeroplane. 
This distinguished authority has not abandoned his faith in dirigible balloons, although he believes that the future of aerial navigation lies in the aeroplane. In the meantime Captain Ferber, a former partisan of the Wright brothers, confesses that his faith in their performances has been shaken, basing his apparent scepticism on what he claims is the fact-that nowhere is the success of their performances unimpeachably registered. 

Herald Atlanta Ga. 
20 Jan 1907 
A Queer Balloon Picture. 
[[image of balloon]] 
It was a happy moment when a young lady with her camera focussed on a Chicago balloon pulled the trigger. Doubtless hundreds of other snapshots were taken from time to time, but this particular picture happened to be an unusual success. Each day at five o'clock during hot weather in Chicago a daring aeronaut with his life insured in five companies flung himself to the breeze and skipped skyward in his flying machine called "The White City Eagle." His ambition was to show the several millions of people enumerated in the big Chicago directory exactly how to steer a balloon regardless of storms or currents. The artist says the photograph was taken under trying conditions. 

Journal. Providence R. I. 
20 Jan 1907. 
AERONAUTIC CUP RACES. 

Herald New York 
20 Jan 1907 
Issue Rules for Big Balloon Race 
Aero Club Also Provides for Aeronautic Pilots' Licenses and for Lahm Contest. 
Cortlandt Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America, made public yesterday the form of application which must be made in order to enter as a contestant in the International Aeronautic Cup race to be started from St. Louis next October, the rules to govern the issue of pilots' licenses by the Aero Club of America and the regulations which will govern competition for the Lahm Aeronautic Cup. 
In making application to be one of the three American defenders of the International Cup, the applicant must declare that "having read the rules of the contest, I hereby bind myself, if I am selected, to present myself at the start, with the following material and apparatus," the applicant here enumerating the capacity and equipment of his balloon. 
"I further agree to place the material and apparatus without any reservation at the disposition of the Aero Club of America, to be used by any of the alternates who may be selected, this in case I should find myself obliged to declare forfeit and for any reason not start," the form of application continues. "I further agree to pay all expenses occasioned by my engagement in the race itself or incidental thereto, in case I personally enter the race. I enclose herewith a certified check for $100, the same to be applied to payment of entrance fee, or to be returned to me in case I am not chosen to represent American in aforesaid race." 
If one of the alternates is for any reason substituted for the pilot originally chosen, the alternate must reimburse the first man for disbursements up to the time of making the change. 
In the regulations for the Lahm Cup competition, which is designed to commemorate the winning of the International Cup for America last year, by Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm, it is provided that the contest shall be open to "all aerostata, aeronats and aeronefs, without restrictions, and a contestant is at liberty to start from any point in the United States of America at any time that he may desire. Contestants must be either licensed pilots or they must have already made ten ascents. In the latter case the contestant must apply as soon as possible for a pilot's license." 
MUST NOTIFY CLUB. 
At least one hour before making an ascension for this cup the contestant must notify the Aero Club of America by letter or telegraph of his intention to start in the contest, giving the point from which the ascension will be made and the point of landing, and the hour must be reported within twenty-four hours. Satisfactory evidence must be furnished to the Aero Club Contest Committee on these points in the form they may desire. 
Each contestant will be obliged to furnish a statement containing the name and 

cup until such time as his record shall be exceeded. If any one contestant shall remain holder of the cup continuously for a period of three years the cup shall become his property at the expiration of that time. The term landing point shall mean the first point, after starting, where the aerostat, aeronaut or aeronef shall come to rest on the earth After the first landing further flight will not be included in the record of distance. 
The cup will remain in the possession of the Aero Club of America until definitely won. The name of each successive holder and the date and distance of his flight will be engraved upon the cup. 
Statements of ascensions must be accompanied by the proper sheets of the United States Geological Survey, with the places of ascent and descent accurately marked. In addition, the landing certificate must contain a statement, signed by two responsible persons not passengers who were present at the place of descent. 
RULES FOR PILOTS. 
Rules and regulations governing licenses to pilots will necessarily control aerial sport this year in America. They were adapted from the rules of the aero clubs of France and Great Britain, and provide that:- 
"Applications may be made in writing to the Board of Directors for a license as aeronautic pilot by any member more than twenty-one years of age who has made ten ascensions. Of this number one must have been made at night, one along and two of the ten must have been conducted by the applicant himself under the supervision of experienced aeronauts who have been approved by the Board of Directors and who shall report to the Board on the manner of the applicant's handling of the balloon. 
"Of the two last mentioned trips the observers shall not in any way interfere or give any advice as to the management of the balloon from the time the balloon leaves the ground till the time of final descent. 
"The Board of Directors may issue a license as aeronautic pilot on such application when, in their opinion, the applicant is fully qualified and when they are satisfied that his methods of flight are reasonably prudent and safe, and that he is a person of such sound judgement and discretion as to entitle him to assume such responsibility, or they may in their discretion refuse to grant such license."