RULES FOR CONDUCTING MODEL AEROPLANE CONTESTS
PREPARED BY THE NEW YORK MODEL AERO CLUB.
The officials at the distance contest will be: One entry clerk, one starter, one judge.
The officials at the spectacular flight contest will be: One announcer and starter, a jury composed of three persons selected from spectators, not members of the Club.
The officials at the demonstration of a lifting-power contest will be: One entry clerk, one measurer and calculator, and one judge.
There will be a director in the center of the armory room to order the flights.
Starters will ask for the floor by showing flag.
The director will order the flights as follows:
Contestants must keep off the floor unless following their own machine in flight.
After they have picked up their machine, they must leave the floor in the most expeditious manner.
Contestants will apply to entry clerks for directions.
PREPARED BY THE NEW YORK MODEL AERO CLUB.
The entries are free, and shall be received at the New York Model Aero Club, 141 Lexington Avenue, either by letter until March 18, 1911, or verbally on March 4 & 11, 1911, from 8:15 P. M. to 10 p. M., and at the 13th Reg. Armory on March 18 from 8 to 9 p. M.
There shall be two contests: A distance contest and a spectacular flight contest.
I. The first prize shall be awarded to the contestant making the longest flight, and the second prize to the contestant making the next longest. II. Each contestant shall have only his longest flight recorded. III. Models must start from the ground under their own power. IV. Contestants are not allowed to push their models. Two special officers of the Club shall be appointed to watch this particular point. V. All models must start from the same starting line, which will be marked on the floor; they must be off the ground at a distance of twenty feet from the starting line. In case a model is not off the ground at said distance, it shall be disqualified for that flight. VI. Flights shall be measured from the starting line to the point of landing. VII. A one-quarter-inch rope shall be laid on the ground without being fastened at either end, at a distance of 20 feet from the starting line. VIII. Models must measure at least two feet in length and two feet in spread.