AIR SAFETY SCHEME
PRIZE AWARDED (Rec. January 2, 9.15 p.m.) New York, January 1. The first prize of 100.000 dollars in connection with the Guggenheim air safety scheme has been awarded to the Curtis Company for the performance of its entry: “Curtis-Tangier.” Tlie board of judges, head by Orville Wright, found the machine demonstrated the greatest advantage in aerodynamics without loss of efficiency. There were twenty-seven competitors. A Handley Page entry passed a majority of the qualifying tests, but failed to.obtain the minimum gliding speed ,of thirty-eight miles per hour called for.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 9
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