Belmont Park Aviation Carnival
Belmont Park Aviation Carnival was an aero meet held in October 1918 on the near-anniversary of the 1910 Belmont Park exhibition. (A positive review of the event in Aerial Age Weekly dubiously describes the first Belmont Park exhibition as "the first international aviation meet").[1]
The event was organized by Mrs. Charles A. Van Rensselaer, chair of the National Aeronautic Committee. Important attendees included Aero Club president Alan R. Hawley and Augustus Post, both of whom had attended the first Belmont Park event.[1]
John Moissant and Grahame White raced to the Statue of Liberty for a $10,000 prize offered by the Thomas Fortune Ryan through the Aero Club of America. Aviators also demonstrated bombing using flash-and-smoke bombs targeted at a circle on the ground.[1]
Links
- Photo: W. Camp, Mrs. C. Van Rensselaer, Col. F.M. Davis, Lt. R. Breeze, Sgt. Coombs (Library of Congress)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Aviation Carnival at Belmont Park a Stupendous Event", Aerial Age Weekly, Vol. 8, No. 8, p. 413; 4 November 1918.
| Event names | Belmont Park |
|---|---|
| Event type | exhibition |
| Country | US |
| Locations | Belmont Park, LI, NY |
| Start date | 1910-10-26 |
| Number of days | 1 |
| Tech focus | Airplane |
| Participants |
