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Show IFLYING FIELD II BE HE READY : Preparations to Receive Transcontinental Aviators Under Way. j fYo:-k o" selling ihe !anu:r. fie'.d a; 1 Euena "i3;a race track in condition :or i::e a.T(. .al of more than seventy airplanes air-planes which iviil talie iart in the tvan- : continental race will be begun immediate- 1 iy. according" to an announcement made yesterday ac the Commercial club. Per- i mission for the government pilots to land at the field was given yesterday by 1... J. Gilmer, who will have cnarye of the ; preparation o.J the landing place. The ! racing machines are due to arrive here ocginning Friday, October 10. Installation of the hue Held designation designa-tion given Salt Lake, "L-4t," will begin Monday under the direction of City Engineer En-gineer Sylvester C:. Cannon. The marking mark-ing will be constructed of whitewashed crushed stone. It will be thirty by thirtv Fifty-seven airplanes taking part in 'he race will leave Mineola, X. Y.. Octo-hf Octo-hf i' lu-13, while twenty planes will take off at San Francisco on October S. The first planes are expected here October 10. According to an announcement made bv Lhe western department of the army. The ' S-alt Lake 'field will be managed under the following regulations set by the air officers: of-ficers: "Where possible the control-stop commanders com-manders will light a smoke smudge to afford pihMS an extra check on the field. All bad spots at control stops along the entire route will be marked with ,'rad flags. All machines will be obliged to land at control stops and remain at least thirty minutes. Pilots will be permitted to remain at control stops as long as they desire up to forty-eight hours, and Lhis time may be extended if the station commander com-mander decides that weather conditions do not warrant departure. " "Pilots will be held responsible for any defect in motor or in machine if not brought to the attention of the mechanics and commanding officer at each stop. It will be in the power of the slop commander com-mander to hold any machine or pilot on the ground until repairs are made. 'Field logbooks will be kept at "each stop, under supervision of the commanding command-ing officer. A logbook containing all rules of flight will be issued to each pilot, in which he must enter at each stop all details de-tails of the tour. "Timekeeping will be a point of greatest great-est accuracy. Stop-watches and chronometers chro-nometers will be used at each stop. Pilots will be permitted at each field to touch the wheels and circle the field again before be-fore landing,, the time being taken the , moment the wheels first touch." |