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3. Pilots entering an airplane after the official closing date must pay an entry fee of $150.00 for each airplane they enter (Goodyear - $50.00) none of which will be returned except to nonqualifiers reporting in Cleveland for the Goodyear Trophy Race.

4. No entry will be accepted after August 22, 1949.

5. In all closed circuit races where there are less than five entrants in the class on the starting line and ready to start, the Race Contest Committee reserves the right to cancel that race and no prize money will be awarded. However, should the Race Contest Committee decide to run a race where there are less than five 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 not personally pilot the airplane entered, the name of the pilot and his license numbers must appear in the entry blank.

8. Entry blanks will not be accepted by the Race Contest Committee officially unless complete informa-tion specified thereon is given. The Race Contest Com-mittee reserves the right to accept or reject all entries.

H - PAYMENT OF PRIZES

1. Prize money will be paid at the pilots' meeting on the day following the close of the 1949 National Air Races in case no protests have been filed. If protests have been filed in this period, see K-4 below.

2. It is agreed that the National Air Races will deduct 2% from all prize money won by civilian pilot contestants, same to be paid to the Professional Race Pilots Association.

3. All prize money, beyond the number of actual starters, for the Bendix (R Division); Thompson (R Division); Sohio; Tinnerman and Women's events shall revert to the Cleveland National Air Races.

4. In the event that any starter in the Bendix (R Division), Thompson (R Division), Sohio, Tinnerman or Women's Race does not finish, and there remains unpaid prize money, the management agrees to pay 75% of this amount to those forced to withdraw. 

The percentage of unpaid prize money to be distributed to non-finishers in the closed circuit events will be determined by dividing the number of laps completed by the position held at the time of withdrawal. In the Bendix, the formula will cover the distance flown from the starting point to the point where the entrant was forced down.

All unpaid prize money in the Goodyear event will be distributed in accordance with the decision of the Goodyear Committee.

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. There will be no duplication of prizes.

I - REJECTION AND EXCLUSION OF ENTRANTS
1. The Race Contest Committee specifically reserves the right to reject 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 unsatis-factory condition to compete, having due regard for the safety of 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 Race or the Civil Aeronautics Administration's Air Traffic Rules and Regulations.

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.

J - MARKINGS ON AIRPLANES
1. All racing numbers will be assigned and color markings approved by the National Aeronautic Association. Assignment of race numbers or approval of color markings must be secured from N. A. A. prior to your arrival at the 1949 National Air Races.

2. Numbers shall be painted by the contestant on the top of the upper left wing, reading from the leading edge towards the trailing edge, and on each side of the fuselage, clear of the wing, in characters at least 36 inches high and in highly contrasting colors before official qualifying runs are made. The airplane shall have no other numbering except that required by the Civil Aeronautics Administration over 12 inches in height. The Race Contest Committee will rigidly enforce this requirement as to size, location and legibility of numbers. 

3. Airplanes entered in the Bendix Trophy Race shall 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. Entrants will be permitted to have advertising on their airplanes, provided that such advertising does not in any way obscure the racing numbers or the Civil Aeronautics Administration number and meets with the approval of the Contest Directors. 

5. 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. He may disqualify them is his instructions are not carried out.