AVIATION PROGRESS
FRANCE OFFERS BIG PRIZES SEEKING TO REGAIN RECORDS France yearns so strongly to recapture aviation records that were hers a few years ago, that the Government has hung up tempting prizes in cash for builders of airplanes. The prizes, totalling several hundred thousand francs, are offered to French airplane makers if their products succeed in breaking the records for speed, altitude, duration and longdistance. The time limit is October 31, 1928. In each case, the reward will be greater should the record be made by a seaplane rather than a land plane. For example, if a land plane made in France should establish and hold on to the speed record the airplane builder would receive 140,000 francs and the maker of the motor 60,000. But if a seaplane does the trick the builder would receive 200,000 francs from the Government. It was only a few years ago that France held all the records simultaneously, speed, long distance and duration, but other countries have taken them from her.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 362, 24 May 1928, Page 7
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169AVIATION PROGRESS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 362, 24 May 1928, Page 7
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