Viewing page 4 of 10

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

11. The airplane making the fastest speed on the first day, Wednesday, August 31st, in the qualifying trials,will get pole position in both the Thompson and Greve Trophy Races, the airplane making the second fastest speed will start in second position, etc.

12. Three qualifying trials will be permitted if necessary but all airplanes making the minimum qualifying speed on their first or second attempt, will not be permitted additional trials.

13. The 15 airplanes with the fastest qualifying speed with motors of 549 cu. in. displacement or less, will be allowed to start in the Greve Trophy Race.

14. The 15 airplanes with the fastest qualifying speed, with motors of 1860 cu. in. displacement or less, will be allowed to start in the Thompson Trophy Race.

15. When an airplane has established its qualifying speed, it will serve for both the Thompson and Greve Trophy Races.

16. Eligibility and starting position for the Thompson Trophy Race are based upon the speed made in the qualifying speed trials and not the speed made in Greve Trophy Race.

All airplanes which are properly entered but because the speed made their qualifying speed trials, does not make them eligible for either the Thompson or Greve Trophy Races, will be eligible to start in the Consolation Race.

17. No airplane will be allowed to compete in the closed-course races unless it has qualified during the time specified for the qualifying trials. THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE.

An airplane entered in the Free-for-All races which has not previously participated in competitive closed-course races or which has had any radical changes made in its construction since its last participation must be flown for the Contest Directors and approved by them before being allowed to participate in the closed-course races.

(The Technical Committee of the Professional Racing Pilots Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association has prepared special information for the assistance and guidance of designers, builders, and pilots of racing airplanes. This information includes design conditions for racing airplanes based upon the latest engineering and research knowledge, data on flutter, its characteristics and prevention, procedure of the conduct of flight proof tests with recording accelerometers and procedure for the conduct of vibration tests to investigate flutter characteristics. Through arrangements with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics recording accelerometers may be obtained for use by pilots and builders in tests of their racing planes. For this information and for information on equipment for the flight proof tests and vibration tests, write the Secretary, Contest Board, National Aeronautic Association, Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. Designers, constructors and pilots are urged, in the interest of safety, to make full use of the special information and recording instruments available and to conduct the flight proof tests and the vibration tests suggested.)

C- PILOT ELIGIBILITY

1. Pilots must be licensed by the Department of Commerce and hold the F.A.I. Certificate and Annual Sporting License issued by the Contest Board of the National Aeronautic Association, Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. 

2. Pilots entered in the free-for-all closed-course races must hold the Annual Sporting License for professional Racing pilots. 

3. Pilots not holding the F.A.I. Certificate and Annual Sporting License must procure these from the National Aeronautic Association, Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., before submitting their entry. 

4. Foreign pilots are eligible for all races provided they are licensed by their respective Governments and have had racing experience comparable to that specified for the National Aeronautic Association Sporting License for Professional Racing Pilots. 

5. To be eligible to participate in the closed-course races, each pilot must
(a) Have equivalent of transport pilot time (Minimum 200 hours).
(b) Answer properly in writing questions on racing rules. 
(c) Furnish satisfactory proof to the Contest Directors that he is qualified to fly in closed-course races. 

6. In exceptional cases pilots may be accepted upon the recommendation of the Professional Racing Pilots Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association. 

7. Pilots must fly alone in all closed-course races and it is requested by the Contest Committee that they wear parachutes. 

8. The Contest Committee will appoint a Doctor who will give each pilot a physical examination before taking part in any race. This examination must be made not to exceed 12 hours before the start of each race. The Contest Directors reserve the right to disqualify any pilot who is not physically fit to participate. 

9. Pilots who are entered to fly airplanes in the Bendix Trophy Race will be allowed to fly airplanes in both the Thompson and Greve Trophy Races, provided at the time the entry is filed, an alternate pilot is named who will have the airplane entered in the Thompson or Greve Trophy Races in Cleveland, ready for the qualifying speed trials on the date set aside for this purpose. Pilots will not be allowed to qualify their airplanes entered in the Thompson and Greve Trophy Races after they have finished the Bendix Race. 

10. Pilots entering the Bendix Trophy Race must be qualified to fly the type of airplane they have entered and must be qualified in the type of cross-country flying involved. In case of question on eligibility qualifications, final decision rests with the Contest Committee for the Bendix Race. This Committee reserves the right to require any pilot to prove that he is qualified to fly the airplane he had entered under the conditions required by the Race. 

11. Entrants (airplane owners) not holding National Aeronautic Association Sporting License for their airplane should procure this from the National Aeronautic Association, Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., before submitting entry. In case the pilot is the entrant, his pilot Sporting License will suffice for both himself and his airplane, except that he must file with the National Aeronautic Association an airplane owner's registration form which will be supplied upon request. An insert for the pilot's Sporting License will then be supplied indicating sports registration of his airplane. In case the pilot is not the entrant- then both the airplane and the pilot must hold Annual Sporting License. 

D- ENTRIES AND ENTRY FEE

1. Entries must be made on the official entry blanks supplied by the Contest Committee of the National Air Races. Closing date for all entries will be midnight, August 15, 1938. Postmark on envelope will be considered official time of mailing. 

2. On entry blanks filed before closing date, midnight, August 15th, 1938, an entry fee of $50.00 for each airplane is required. This will cover all races any one airplane is eligible for. Entry fee will not be returned. 

3. Pilots entering an airplane after the closing date must pay an entry fee of $100.00 for each airplane they enter- none of which will be returned. 

4. No entry will be accepted after August 25th, 1938.

5. In all closed-course races where there are less than six entrants in the class on the starting line and ready to start, the Contest Committee reserves the right to cancel that race and no prize money will be awarded. However, should the Contest Committee decide to run a race where there are less than six entrants on the line ready to start, only the same number of prizes that there are airplanes in the race will be paid. No race will be run with less than four starters.

6. An entry which contains a false statement shall be considered null and void and the entry fee shall be forfeited.

7. In case an entrant will no personally pilot the airplane entered, the name of the pilot and his license number must be filled out in entry blank.

8. Entry blanks will not be officially accepted by the Contest Committee unless complete information specified thereon, is given. The Contest Committee reserves the right to accept or reject all entries.

E- PAYMENT OF PRIZES

1. Prize money will be paid at the Pilots' Meeting on the day following the race, or after an equivalent length of time, in case no protests have been filed. If protests have been filed in this period, see H-4 below.

2. There will be no duplication of prizes.

F- REJECTION AND EXCLUSION OF ENTRANTS

1. The Contest Committee specifically reserves the right to reject any entrant or exclude any entrant for cause at any time, and without any obligation to rejected or excluded entrant or to anyone because of rejection or exclusion.

2. Among grounds for rejection or exclusion will be:
(a) Fraud in representing, by his or her entry or attempted entry, that the airplane, motor or pilot is qualified to compete in that specific race when the facts are otherwise.
(b) Flying over grandstands at any time.
(c) Failure of airplane, motor or pilot to be qualified to compete in any race in which entry is sought or has been made.
(d) Airplane, motor or pilot being in an unsatisfactory condition to compete, having due regard for the safety of airplane, motor, pilot, mechanic, public, or other contestants.
(e) Unfair or reckless competition; resorting to methods in competition that are unsportsmanlike.
(f) Disobedience of F. A. I. Rules or National Aeronautic Association Rules, or the published Rules of the National Air Races or the Department of Commerce Air Traffic Rules and Regulations.
(g) Any race or races which are overcrowded. In the exercise of such authority, selection will be made in the order of the entrants' qualifying speed. Those to be rejected will be the entrants with the lowest speed in the qualifying trail for that race.

3. The right to exclude any contestant in any race is vested in the Contest Directors, acting for the Contest Committee, and will be exercised at the starting point of any of the races. The Chief of the Technical Committee will act for the Contest Directors in exercising this authority.