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1907 June 4. Tuesday Tribune New York 2 April - 1907 FLYING MACHINE TROPHY Offered to the Aero Club for Yearly Competition A challenge trophy for heavier-than-air flying machines had been offered by "The Scientific American" to the Aero Club of America. The trophy will be accepted to-night at a meeting to be held before the reception at the rooms of the club at No. 12 East 42d street to Walter Wellman and Major Hersey. Those who have this in charge are S. Y. Beach, editor of "The Scientific American"; Cortlandt Field Bishop, the president, and Augustus Post, secretary of the Aero Club, and Israel Ludlow, representing the Aeronautical Congress of the Jamestown Exposition. The new aeronautical trophy is valued at $1,000, and the first contest for it will be held on September 14. The winner will have to defend the trophy annually thereafter, if challenged. The competition is open to all forms of heavier-than-air machines, including aeroplanes, helicopters and orthopters, furnished with motors and capable of sustaining at least one person in the their flight. All machines of a composite type, carrying a balloon for compensating weight, are excluded. The contest will not only be decided on the duration of the flight, but also on the distance covered, and the practicability and safety of the machine. Each must, however, cover a distance of at least 350 yards. The machines may start themselves with the help of planes, chutes, or rails, but with no other motive force than their own weight and the help of the motor to be provided. Israel Ludlow, superintendent of the Aeronautical Bureau of the Exposition, who has not yet entirely recovered from the effects of his fall a year ago from his own aeroplane, is still optimistic about the future of such machines. He said yesterday: Science agrees that aerial locomotion is an actual possibility, although prejudice has, to a certain extent, heretofore retarded its development. Actual experimenting may bring it about, and the individual who establishes or adds to a fund that it is desired to raise for this purpose may make memorable his act and his country. It is hoped that the example of "The Scientific American" in giving a prize to the winner of this contest will suggest to some wealthy man, whose reputation for gifts to charity is widespread, to respond to the opportunity to add something to the good of humanity. He surely could befriend the entire race by giving something to a fund to be used by the Technical Committee of the Bureau of Aeronautics for experimental purposes, and to reward the inventor who offers for exhibition the best and most practical flying-machine model, by building a full sized apparatus for him, under his direction and according to his plans. Sun. Columbus O. 1 Apr - 1907. NEW TYPE AIRSHIP MAY SOLVE PROBLEM Baltimore Men Have an Improved Machine for Aerial Navigation GOOD RESULTS EXPECTED The "Helicopter" Belongs to the Modern "Heavier-Than-Air Class of Airships." BALTIMORE, March 31. -- Dr. Robert W. Wood, professor of experimental physics in the Johns Hopkins university, and Otto Luyties, a skilful mechanical engineer of Baltimore, hope they have solved the problem in aerodynamics upon which Langley failed and which Santos Dumont has not yet succeeded in unraveling. Professor Wood is the successor to the late Professor H. A. Rowland, the inventor of the famous spectroscope grating machine, known to all physicians, and the multiple telegraph system now being introduced in the various cities of Europe. The type of machine upon which Professor Wood and Mr. Luyties are at work is known as the "helicopter." It is entirely different from the balloon type and belongs to what is known as the "heavier than air" class of airships, now attracting the attention of all who are interested in aerial navigation. It belongs properly to the same class with the aeroplane, at Baddeck. 63 News Chicago Ill. 2 April 1907 NEW CUP FOR FLYING MACHINE Scientific Publication Offers Trophy to Areo Club [By the Associated Press.] New York, April 2 -- The Scientific American will offer a cup to be competed for annually by American-built flying machines. It will be confided to the care of the Aero club, under the management of which the competitions for its custody will be held. The cup will cost not less than $1,000 and it will be competed for for the first time Sept. 14 next at the Jamestown exposition. Only machines heavier than air will be eligible and they must all be self-propelled, without any gas-bag attachment whatever, even for lifting purposes. The cup will not be awarded unless one of the competing machines travels at least 1,000 feet in the air. Nuova Journale - Firenze 2 Apr 1907 NOTIZIE DI SPORT Aereonautica Nei locali dell'Aero Club in Piccadilly, a Londra, per iniziativa dal Daily Mail si e inaugurata una esposizione di modelli di aeroplani. la prima del genere che sia siata fatta in Inghilterra. I concorrenti sono 530 e presentano infiniti modelli per varieta di tipi e per l'adozione di vari sistemi di forza motrice. Alcuni sono animati infatti dall'elettricita, altri da motori a petrolio, a benzina ad aria compressa e cosi via. Il premio stabilito per il modello che dara migliore prova e di 250 sterline. Questa esposizione destera certo unvivissimo interesse come preparatoria alla grande prova di aeroplani con 10 mila sterline di preme, che fu indetta dallo stesso giornale per la distanza fra Londra e Manchester. Gazzelta dell'Spiclia [[?]] 1 Apr 1907 Bologna. Aereonautica Nei locali dell'Aero Club in Piccadilly, a Londra, per iniziativa dal Daily Mail si e inaugurata una esposizione di modelli di aeroplani, la prima del genere che sia siata fatta in Inghilterra. I concorrenti sono 500 e presentano infiniti modelli per varieta di tipi e per l'adozione di vari sistemi di forza motrice. Alcuni sono animati infatti dall'elettricita, altri da motori a petrolio, a benzina ad aria compressa e cosi via. Il premio stabilito per il modello che dara migliore prova e di 250 sterline. Questa esposizione destera certo unvivissimo interesse come preparatoria alla grande prova di aeroplani con 10 mila sterline di preme, che fu indetta dallo stesso giornale per la distanza fra Londra e Manchester. La Nagroine Firenze 1 Apr - 1907 Infelici tentativi di Santos Dumont col sno nuevo aeroplano Si ha da Saint Cyr: Numberoso pubblico assistette nel pomeriggio di ieri alle esperienze aereonautiche fatte da Santos Dumont. Un primo tentativo di ascensione fatto alle quattro pomeridiane fu immediatamente sospeso perche Santos Dumont aveva involontariamente interrotta la trasmissione della forza motrice. Alle 4,30 ebbe luogo un nuovo tentativo, ma l'ala destra dell'apparecchio urto il suolo nel momento in cui Santos Dumont prtiva con una velocita di sessanta chilometri all'ora. L'apparecchio si e subito fermato. I danni furono considerevoli. L'ala destra del timone ando in pezzi. Il refrigeratore del motore si ruppe. Santos Dumont, sospirando, disse: <>.
