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[Cut out] Fair [Cut out] Made For [cut out][f] heavier- [cut out] Type [line] [cut out] PROHIBITED. [line] [cut out] Open for All Other [cut out] He Held on September [cut out] [], at Exposition. [line] [cut out] committee of the Aero Club [America?], appointed for the purpose, [ ]ulated provisional rules govern[ing the?] competition for flying machines [cut out] heavier-than-air [ ] which will [cut out]augurated at the Jamestown Exposition on September 14 next. [cut out] is the intention of the Scientific [ ] American, in offering this trophy, to have it always open to competition by [ ] inventors the world over. Should the trophy be won by the representative of a foreign aeronautical club, this club, [?]]if a member of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, may before the custodian of the trophy; but the future competitions, even if held abroad, shall be carried out under the same rules and conditions used by the Aero Club of America in the competitions held here. The rules governing the competition are as follows: 1. This competition will be held annually, and the conditions of the trials will be progressive in character, so as to keep abreast of the state of the art. The first contest will be held at the Jamestown Exposition on September 14, 1907, and all entries for this contest must be made in writing and sent to secretary of the Aero Club of America, 12 East Forty-Second street, New York City, prior to September 1, 1907. The rules governing future contests will be formulated by the contest committee of the Aero Club of America in accordance with the results obtained and the lessons learned in the first contest. 2. All heavier-than-air machines of any type whatever (aeroplanes, helicopters, orthopters, etc.)shall be entitled to compete for the trophy, but all machines carrying a balloon or gas-cantaining envelope for purpose of support are excluded from the competition. 3. The machines which accomplishes the required flight in the shortest time and with the best display of stability and ease of control shall be declared the winner. If several machines perform equally well, the committee shall have the right to demand further flights in order to determine which is the best. If no machine makes the required flight on the date set for the contest, the one that subsequently first accomplished such flight shall be declared the winner, and shall not be entitled to make a further flight, until the next year, under the changed conditions of the contest. 4. The flights shall be made in calm air, if possible. If a wind of over twenty miles an hour is blowing, no trial need to made. Aeroplanes may start by running along on wheels on the ground under their own power, but no special track or launching device will be permitted. A smooth, turfed field will be provided from which to make the start. Machines need not fly more than a few feet above the ground, or higher than is necessary to avoid obstacles. They should be capable of being steered both horizontally and vertically and of alighting without being damaged. If there is wind blowing, the flights shall be made in such direction as best suits each operator. The start should preferably be made against the wind. 5. The committee shall make arrangements to accurately time and measure all flights, as well as the distance traversed and time taken in starting and stopping. Accurate observations of the speed of the wind and other weather conditions at the time of the flight shall also be made and recorded by the committee. Complete specifications of the competing machines, giving weight, supporting surface, details of motors and propellers, etc., together with a description of any performance that the machines has made, shall be forwarded to the contest committee with the entry or when application is made for a trial. 6. Any one desirous of making a flight at any subsequent time can arrange for such a test by communicating with the contest committee [?] of the Aero Club of America, at least fourteen days in advance, and asking this committee to appoint a suitable time and place for the trial. If the committee believe the machines to be impractical, it can require the inventor either to prove the incorrectness of such belief by an informal demonstration in some other satisfactory way which will show that the machine is operative. 7. The first flight shall be for a distance of one kilometer (3,280 feet) in a straight line. 8. After every competition the name of the winner will be inscribed upon the trophy. If it is won three times in different years by any competitor, the trophy will then become his personal property. [[UPSIDE DOWN CLIP]] [[CUTOFF]] [image] [image] ROME, N.Y. April 24. - What m "mix-up" they have ever seen result of a freight train on the Rome branch burg railroad. There were two engi drivers and one fireman escaped ser man, was killed, Leon Joyce, a fireman top of the tree in the picture, and er, William Dearing, of Watertown, Both engines went down a seven Fish creek, one of the engines carry in the picture, roots and earth, and creek as though it had grown there slide, the earth for about fifty fee sliding out from under the engines -- GAR [[CUT OFF]]
