Word: mineola
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toronto and transcontinental races. Predicting that in no very distant time colleges will officially take up aviation as a recognized sport, Mr. Driggs urges that "in the meantime every encouragement should be given these enthusiastic airmen of the colleges who hold their first aeroplane contest on May 8 at Mineola, Long Island...
...meantime, every encouragement should be given these enthusiastic airmen of the colleges who hold their first aeroplane contest on May 7 next, at Mineola, Long Island. The 'Safety First' principle is the basis of this proficiency contest. Upon its successful issue, many interesting improvements may be built. The personnel of the contestants is chosen from a group of men who form the greatest fraternity in the world--a group which shoulder to shoulder faced the constant menace of hazardous flights over enemy territory and amid a thousand dangers. Their present problem is to convert their fellows to a recognition...
...economical use of gasoline, and secondly on their speed. Furthermore, it was stipulated that every pilot be required to fly 20 hours and make 25 perfect landings before the race. The trials for the pilots are to be held during the spring recess at the Army flying fields at Mineola, N. Y., under the supervision of the Army officials. There will be no restriction as to the number of men going to Mineola from the University Aeronautical Society...
...also decided that the course of the race would be shortened, the official route being as follows: Mineola, N. Y., Stamford, Conn., New Haven, Newark, N. J., Princeton and back to Mineola...
...intercollegiate race, which is the first of its kind, will be over a course of 550 to 600 miles, beginning and ending at Mineola, and taking in Boston en route. The colleges which will enter two planes each are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Williams, and Cornell...