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...some explanation for wandering in the fact that none of the contestants (I believe) had ever been over the course before. A collision between two planes in the early afternoon was due in part, according to some pilots, to the strong wind on the sharp turn of the home pylon on the three-and-one-half mile course. The women asked to be allowed to fly the five-mile course to avoid the hazard. There was no chance to fly this course before the race- and anyone who races knows how difficult it is to find pylons from...
...Race for the George Palmer Putnam Cup, for women exclusively, was reached. This race aroused much mirth among men pilots, caused much confusion to officials. The six starters were supposed to race 21 mi. around a 3½ mi. course. The first to start headed properly for the checkered turning pylon, then somehow got another idea and wandered off across country. Others mistook smokestacks for pylons, some found themselves on the 5-mile and 10-mile courses. One zoomed far aloft, another popped up from behind a grandstand. The only one to fly the prescribed route, Miss Florence Klingensmith, was timed...
...have recognized one calm voice, twangy and slightly stammering, as that of lanky, moose-eared ''Pop'' Cleveland. He is ringmaster, troubleshooter, rules arbiter for Impresario Henderson. Apparently nerveless, he is a genius at soothing down temperamental pilots, settling quarrels, salving wounded vanity. As familiar to race followers as the pylon in front of the grandstand is "Pop's" ungainly figure striding across the field with his colored starting flags tucked under one arm?red for "all clear," white for "go," checkered for "last lap." Usually he has a cigar in the side of his mouth, always he wears...
Enterprising Pylon Club of Philadelphia, organization of sportsmen pilots, plays an all-aerial game. The hare is a plane on one side of which is painted a number unknown to the hound-pilots. The hare is given a five-minute start, is limited to county boundaries. Hounds try to corner the hare, then get within reading distance of the secret number-a maneuver requiring dogfight combat tactics...
Treasure Hunt. Few years ago the party game of "treasure hunt" (pursuit of a prize by discovery and correct interpretation of successive cryptic clues concealed throughout a house or over the countryside) was made more elaborate by using automobiles. Last week the Pylon Club of Philadelphia, organization of sportsman pilots, applied the game to the air. Sample clue: "Fly 5° south of east for approximately 8 min. where you will pick up a Catholic Church located between two golf courses. From this church, lay a course 25° east of north. . . . You will come to an airport where...