£50.000 FOR FLIGHT.
MASTERY OF THE AIE. CONDITIONS OF HELICOPTER COMPETITION. ORGANISED BY AIR MINISTRY. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. nnd N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Friday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, May 10. The Air Ministry has Issued the conditions in connection with the £50,000 prize for a heliocopter competition. The machine must rise straight into the air, fly horizontally in any direction and descend vertically into a restricted space. The requirements are that the machine must rise and alight within two thousand feet in a five miles wind. Also in a five to twenty miles' wind. It must also make a vertical ascent of two thousand feet, and remain hovering for half hour, and fly a circuit of twenty miles at a speed of sixty miles per hour. Lastly it must manoeuvre over a given point, then, shuitting off the engine, descend from five thousand feet into an area of a hundred feet.
The prize will be divided as follows: —£5,000 for a straight up ascent and descent: £15,000 for hovering; £20,000 for a circular flight and £IO,OOO for descent without the engine. In addition to its pilot, the heliocopter must carry petrol for one hour's flight, and a load of 150 lbs. Several machines have already been designed, one. having great revolving vanes driven by a 1000 horse-power engine.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2644, 12 May 1923, Page 5
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218£50.000 FOR FLIGHT. Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2644, 12 May 1923, Page 5
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