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6. An entry which contains a false statement shall be considered null and void and the entry fee shall be forfeited. 7. In the case an entrant will not personally pilot the airplane entered, the name of the pilot and his license number must be filled out in the entry blank. 8. Entry blanks will not be officially accepted by the Race Contest Committee unless complete information specified thereon, is given. The Race Contest Committee reserves the right to accept or reject all entries. 9. A percentage of all entry fees will be given to the Cleveland Race Pilots Protective Association. E-PAYMENT OF PRIZES 1. Prize money will be paid at the Pilot's 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. No prize money will be paid on an entry which does not make two complete laps of the course. 3. All prize money beyond the number of actual starters in any event shall revert to Cleveland National Air Races. 4. No prize money shall be paid to entrants who do not actually or officially finish the prescribed number of laps for the event. 5. When entrants are officially flagged down, prizes shall be paid such entrants according to the positions held at the time the Race is declared finished. 6. No prize will be paid any contestant who fails to make the race qualifying speed in at least half of the number of laps he completes. 7. All prize money not won by actual finishers and not covered by Paragraphs No. 2 and 3 above shall be distributed between the Racing Pilots Chapter of the N. A. A. and the Army and Navy Relief Societies. 8. There will be no duplication of prizes. F-REJECTION AND EXCLUSION OF ENTRANTS 1. The Race Contest Committee specifically reserves the right to reject any entrant or exclude any entrant for cause at any time, and without 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, engine 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, engine or pilot to be qualified to compete in any race in which entry is sought or has been made. (d) Airplane, engine or pilot being in an unsatisfactory condition to compete, having due regard for the safety of the airplane, engine, 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 Civil Aeronautics Board 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 trial for that race. 3. The right to exclude any contestant in any race is vested in the Contest Directors, acting for the Race 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. G-MARKINGS ON AIRPLANES 1. All racing numbers will be assigned by the National Aeronautic Association. This number must appear on your entry blank, therefore, it must be obtained from the National Aeronautic Association prior to the time your entry is filed for the 1946 National Air Races. 2. Numbers shall be painted by the contestant on the top of the upper left wing, reading from wing tip, and on each side of the fuselage, whenever possible, clear of the wing, in characters at least 36 inches high and in highly contrasting colors. The airplane shall have no other numbering except that required by the Civil Aeronautic Administration over 12 inches in height. The Race Contest Committee will rigidly enforce this requirement as to size and legibility of numbers. In view of the increasing difficulty of accurate identification of planes during closed course races, the National Technical Committee requests that in addition to numbers at least 36 inches in height, color combinations and/or stripes or similar identifying markings be registered with the N. A. A. For reference of plane owners, the N. A. A. Contest Board is having sample color and marking combinations made up. 3. Airplanes entered in the Bendix Trophy Race shall also have their racing number painted on the bottom of the lower right wing and on both sides of the fuselage in characters at least 36 inches high, clear of the wing, and in highly contrasting colors. 4. The Race Contest Committee strongly recommends that all racing airplanes be painted in brilliant color combinations to make them more distinctive so that the public and press can more readily identify them. 5. Entrants will be permitted to have advertising on their airplanes, provided that such advertising does not in any way obscure the racing number or the Civil Aeronautics Administration number, and meets with the approval of the Contest Directors. 6. The Chief Timer shall have the right to require contestants to replace or change the size, type or location of their racing numbers, if, in his opinion they are not legible from the Timer's Stand. H-PROTESTS 1. The right to protest is possessed by pilots only; except that the Race Contest Committee may always act by virtue of its office, even when no protest has been filed. 2. Protests will be considered only when presented in writing and accompanied by the sum of $10.00 which amount shall be returned only if the protest shall be deemed to have been well founded, or if so directed by the Contest Board of the National Aeronautic Association. 3. Protest on eligibility of airplane, engine or pilot must be filed before the start of the race. This does not prevent the Race Contest Committee from disqualifying on the grounds of ineligibility after the start of the race. 4. The prize won by a contestant who is involved in a protest shall be withheld 48 hours after a final decision has been rendered concerning such protest. 5. The parties involved in a protest must be duly summoned and given a hearing within a period of time determined by the Race Contest Committee. If they fail to present themselves at the time fixed, they may not plead such absence against the decision that was rendered in the case. 6. Notice of rejection of a protest shall be given immediately in writing to the protestant at the address which must be set forth in the protest itself, or such notice be immediately delivered to the protestant in person. 7. Pilots may appeal from decision of local Race Contest Committee to the N. A. A. Contest Board whose decision shall be final. This appeal must be in writing and accompanied by $10.00 which amount shall not be refunded unless validity of the protest is recognized and must be made within 48 hours after the decision of the local Race Contest Committee is announced. 8. The National Contest Board reserves the right to officially interpret all rules. J-DISQUALIFICATION 1. No entrant or pilot or mechanic shall have any claim for damage or expense of any type against the Cleveland National Air Races, or its officers, representatives, assigns, or the Race Contest Committee or the National Aeronautic Association or their officers, agents or representatives, by reason of disqualification of either the airplane or the pilot. K-EXPENSES OF PILOTS AND MECHANICS, ETC. 1. The National Air Races assume no responsibility and will not pay the hotel, transportation, storage, gas, hotel and mechanical or living expenses of any contesting pilot, visiting pilot, passenger, mechanic, or airplane. 2. National Air Races assume no responsibility or liability in case of accident or damage to any participating pilot, mechanic, official, employee or airplane. L-RULES OF THE RACES 1. Method of Start-Formation starts will be used for all closed course races. (a) The airplanes eligible for each race will be lined up, with engines idling, on the starting line from left to right in the order of their positions as established in the qualifying trials, as covered in the Rules and Regulations for the 1946 NATIONAL AIR RACES under "B-AIRPLANE ELIGIBILITY." (b) For Formation Starts, starting time for all airplanes will be taken from the time the first airplane crosses the starting line in flight. Finish time will be taken at the finish line. When individual standing starts are used, starting time will be taken from the starter's flag. (c) In taking off in Formation Start, no airplane shall cut in front of another until a safe distance has been gained. Any airplane passing another airplane must keep at least 150 feet to the right, or 50 feet above the airplane being overtaken. 2. All pylon turns must be made to the left and outside of the pylon. 3. An airplane overtaken must hold its true course in order that it may not in any way impede or interfere with a faster, overtaking airplane. 4. An airplane overtaking a slower airplane shall never attempt to pass between that airplane and the pylon. 5. After crossing the finish line, all airplanes shall continue on their course until they have attained an altitude of 1,000 feet, then they may turn and return to the airport and land in that part of the airport assigned for landing and in so doing shall not cross the course or the finish line. 6. Pilots shall pass all turning points in plain view of the observing officials stationed at each turning point, and at an altitude not over 500 feet. 7. CANCELLATION OF A RACE IN PROGRESS. The Contest Directors shall have the power to cancel or declare finished a race in progress. If the race has been 60% or more completed a the time that a red flag is displayed at the start and finish line, the race shall be declared finished. If it is not 60% completed, it shall be declared cancelled and run over at a later date. Responsibility of seeing the cancellation flag rests with the contestant. 8. Pilots must at all times be on the lookout for transport airplanes in the vicinity of the airport and in taking off and landing, transports are to have the right-of-way at all times in the vicinity of the airport. 9. The Race Contest Committee reserves the right to change the length of any race course or the length of any race. 10. FINISH OF THE RACE. The finish of all closed course races will be made by passing over the finish line in front of and at right angles to the grandstand, after completing the required number of laps in the closed course or other prescribed course. 11. The National Contest Board reserves the right to interpret these Rules and Regulations and make any changes they deem necessary. M-PYLON TURNS DURING RACE- WHAT CONSTITUTES CUTTING OF PYLON 1. A pilot who has cut a pylon (turning inside or having part of the airplane over the pylon constitutes "cutting") may validly continue in the race provided he pulls up to a minimum altitude of 500 feet and makes a complete turn around same pylon in the proper direction of the race before continuing his course: otherwise, he is penalized one lap and therefore must make an additional complete lap for each cut pylon during the race. N-WINNER OF THE RACE 1. The winner of the first place, in any race where speed is the determining factor, shall be the pilot who has completed a full race in the shortest elapsed time, and of second place, the second best time, etc., provided, the pilot is not disqualified and no protest has been filed.
