CHAPTER XVI RULES FOR CONDUCTING MODEL AEROPLANE CONTESTS

PREPARED BY THE WEST SIDE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, NEW YORK.

GENERAL RULES AND CONDITIONS FOR 1911.

  1. These General Rules and Conditions shall apply to the events conducted by the West Side Y. M. C. A.
  2. Each and every contestant for a prize shall accept without reservation the conditions laid down by the West Side Y. M. C. A. and shall abide by the decision of the referee. Each contestant must register his name, age and address before the event.
  1. All contestants in Class "A" must be 18 years of age or over.
  2. All contestant in Class "B" must be under 18 years.
  1. Every machine competing must be made by the operator (no toys admitted), and it must be built along practical lines, that is, a model from which a practical man-carrying machine can be built.
  2. The Committee shall have the right to reject any entry, the rejection of which they deem advisable.
  3. The flights shall be accounted level flights and no allowance will be made for variation of height.
  4. A trial shall be considered to have ended whenever the machine touches the ground.
  5. Competitors shall decide by drawing lots the order in which they shall take their turns.
  6. Any entrant not ready to commence his trial when called upon will forfeit his turn to him who is next ready, and will fall back to the end of the list.
  7. The commencement of the distance flown shall in the case of machines on wheels be counted not from the starting line, but from the point which is determined by the judges as that at which such machines actually leave the ground. In the case of machines using the catapult, there shall be deducted from the total distance flown the equivalent of the initial impulse of the catapult.
  8. There shall be no restrictions as to the design, size, weight, form or amount of power, but the power must be self-contained in the model.
  9. All models must start from the ground.
  10. Each contestant shall have three trials.
  11. The longest flight in the three trials will be counted for the prize.
  12. All awards shall be made to the owner of the model and not to the operator, unless by special agreement between owner and operator.
  13. The contests shall cover a period of two hours, unless otherwise designated by the judges.

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.

The director will have a whistle.

Each starter will have a flag.

Starters will ask for the floor by showing flag.

The director will order the flights as follows:

Three whistles for a spectacular flight.

Two whistles for a distance flight.

One whistle for a lifting-power flight.

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.

RULES FOR MODEL AEROPLANE CONTESTS

PREPARED BY THE NEW YORK MODEL AERO CLUB.

The contests shall be open to all.

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.

Models must be built by the contestants.

There shall be two contests: A distance contest and a spectacular flight contest.

DISTANCE CONTEST Two prizes:

  1. The first prize shall be awarded to the contestant making the longest flight, and the second prize to the contestant making the next longest.
  2. Each contestant shall have only his longest flight recorded.
  3. Models must start from the ground under their own power.
  4. Contestants are not allowed to push their models. Two special officers of the Club shall be appointed to watch this particular point.
  5. 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.
  6. Flights shall be measured from the starting line to the point of landing.
  7. 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.
  8. Models must measure at least two feet in length and two feet in spread.

SPECTACULAR FLIGHT CONTEST One prize:

  1. The cup shall be awarded to the contestant making the most spectacular flight as previously announced.
  2. A jury of five persons, selected from the spectators, shall decide upon the most spectacular flight.
  3. Power shall be optional.
  4. Models must measure at least two feet in length and two feet in spread.
  5. Models must be fitted with a landing device by which, if proper speed was obtained, the machine would leave the ground.
  6. Each contestant, before launching his model, must announce the object of his flight. The announcement will be made to the public.
  7. Contestants are at liberty to fly their models from the ground or from the hand, and start wherever they wish.

Non observance of any of the above rules shall disqualify any flight.