October 2 1922 | Aviation Week

Characteristics of the Aircraft Entered in the Pulitzer Trophy Race

The Pulitzer Trophy race this year has received a very large number of entries by the Army Air Service and Naval Aviation—twenty-one altogether. With the exception of the six Thomas-Morse MB3 and the VCP-R pursuit ships entered by the Army and the Curtiss Triplane entered by the Navy, every entry is a new type, specially built for this race, or a development of a previous type.

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Rules of the Curtiss Marine Flying Trophy Race

1 The trophy shall be perpetual and competed for annually by seaplanes and flying boats. 2. The contest shall be in the nature of a race either around a closed circuit or from point to point. The rules governing the race each year to be drawn up by the Contest Committee of the Aero Club of America.

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Characteristics of the Aircraft Entered in the Curtiss Marine Flying Trophy Race

The opening event of the Detroit Aviation Meet is the race for the Curtiss Marine Flying Trophy donated by Glenn H. Curtiss. This contest is open to seaplanes of the float and boat types only, and is annually competed for under rules drawn up with special view to the progress achieved in seaplane construction.

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ARMY AND NAVY AIR NEWS

New Distribution of Air Service Troops—General Army Order of July 19, 1922, provides for the following redistribution the Air Service Troops:— Aberdeen Airship Company No. 18 (Reduced Strength) 100 49th Squadron (Bombardment) (Detached from 2nd Group (Bombardment) at Langley) 132

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H. E. Honeywell on the Gordon Bennett Balloon Race

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Naval Aviation

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Foreign News

Italy—Italian airships are resuming their activities. The PV has been transferred to the airport of Pompeii and will be employed for passenger service. Some of the Army and Navy airships which had been deflated and stored, will be overhauled and put in service as soon as possible.

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Editorials

An Echo of the Gordon Bennett Race

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The Detroit Seaplane and Airplane Races

A Compendium of Useful Information Concerning The Scheduled Events, the Ships and the Pilots

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Editorials

October 2, 1922

October 2, 1922

Characteristics of the Aircraft Entered in the Pulitzer Trophy Race

Rules of the Curtiss Marine Flying Trophy Race

Characteristics of the Aircraft Entered in the Curtiss Marine Flying Trophy Race

Characteristics of the Aircraft Entered in the Pulitzer Trophy Race

Rules of the Curtiss Marine Flying Trophy Race