PRIZES FOR AVIATORS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 96, 13 June 1911, Page 2

PRIZES FOR AVIATORS.

A G OLD EN YE Ail. Tins year it. j'oing to be a golden one ('or the airmen of’ Europe an! Aui'-rioa. The prizes l.j 'o oilei.m lor con.ie 'ii 01 lilt! i 1/ the i-imiiip; ■ •ni ii( r ; i.iom La Mio la," i,ifii-e: !. total of £”00,000, a mb as ibis money uill servo as a stimulus to aoroolanc builders, enpinoors, ami air-pilots, if is confidently expected that the sea - ■■ >a will see a.II rise existimr records bra!,.n. The Eoml.ni “.Standard,” Hie Eaii.i “Journal,” ami some oilier i'l'Uf |) ha ve organised a race ’•■'ill I’.n.s i ) l/oml'm. and back', via I'/i’S"... Is, and the pi i-a-im.my wid be Om) 10. ’bli.' “Jvtit .Journal,” oi t , ;” inttevn £ 10,0*10 for a race from E E. Eva:. 31 v TV. E. H-jarct

tho American millionaire newspaper pi opriel or, is giving jjIO,!K)U loi a iliglit across (lit- I ailed Stales from tin- Allan I it* 'id 11 k- i’a'eilie. I hero is to Ijo a ero.ss-Channei race* from (Jalair la Dost; , Folkstane and !*ooiogne, lor widen Ike p: iwe-money is Cl2,00!I. :nr.,! (ik* iiiiMsiaiis are preihiiag Cb'.'MiHO (oi a iliissiai: aerial lour, si art nig from St. I’etersanrg. Tim French (level nmenl. will hold a competition for mililaiy machine-,, will) pri/.es annum! im.!; to no leas limn Pis.(MO. '!ii,> ij;> 111 !i >11 “Daily Mail’ i:: offering CIO,OOO as a first-j>! i/.e ia connection with a thousand mi1 1; .race around Ibiiain, shilling on .July 22.nl next. Thu iMiaili-.-r of smalta sums ta la- won iiy skilful airmen is hgian. Tlio ma jm ily of t!i-> conic-is in 10 itain ain.l on (lie Fontiaent u ill lie devised for the pnroo.se of demonstrating the touring capabilities of aeroplanes, and many romarkabl flights a.re sure to he accomplished. A few works ago a French airman Hew from London to (‘aria without a stop at a speed of over sixty miles an hour, and some nl the machines now under construction will bo able to carry a supply of petrol that will bring a continuous flight from London to Berlin within die bounds of possibility.