Word: guggenheimer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trials to win $100,000 for the safest plane extant began at Mitchel Field, L. I., last week. The Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics provided the prize money, and an additional $10,000 for each of the first five planes to qualify in the contest. Entries must register before Oct. 3. Until last week only a dozen were listed as competitors. Six were U. S. makes...
...purpose of the Guggenheim Fund contest is to get a plane not merely safe in skilled hands, but foolproof under all kinds of conditions. Such a plane must be able to land slowly, take off quickly, climb steeply, glide either at flat or steep angles and remain under control at all speeds and altitudes, even though weather conditions prevent the pilot keeping on even keel...
...glide three minutes at 38 m.p.h. with engine shut off, land within a 100-ft. space, take off in 300 ft., gain more than 35 ft. altitude within 500 ft. of starting takeoff, and fly "hands off." A manufacturer's pilot may put the plane through its best maneuvers. Guggenheim Fund pilots then try the plane themselves...
After a year's study (financed by $12,000 from the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics) the National Aeronautic Association last week was able to present concrete plans for private flying clubs. Such clubs exist in England and Canada, where the Governments subsidize them as an aspect of national defense (TIME, June 3). In the U. S., club flying, like commercial aviation, must depend on private finances, although the Government gave commercial aviation backbone by means of mail contracts and Government officials are now initiating plans for the clubs...
...Bingham of Connecticut. The members of the advisory board include Assistant Secretaries for Aeronautics F. Trubee Davison, David S. Ingalls and William P. MacCracken Jr.; and Flying Chiefs Maj.-Gen. J. E. Fechet of the Army, Rear-Adm. W. A. Moffett of the Navy. Other members are Harry F. Guggenheim, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart...