Приз
Приз Orteig стала вознаграждением в размере 25 000 долларов США, предложенных в 1919 году New York City владельцем отеля Raymond Orteig первым авиаторам союзников , или авиаторам, чтобы летать без перерыва из Нью-Йорка в Париж или наоборот. [ 2 ] Несколько известных авиаторов предприняли неудачные попытки на рейсе Нью -Йорка и Париса, прежде чем относительно неизвестный американский Чарльз Линдберг получил приз в 1927 году в своем авиационном духе Сент -Луиса .
Однако погибли многие люди, которые соревновались, чтобы выиграть приз. Шесть человек погибли в трех отдельных авариях, а еще трое получили ранения в четвертой аварии. Приз вызвал значительные инвестиции в авиацию, иногда намного превышая стоимость самой премии, а также повышение общественного интереса и уровня авиационных технологий.
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[ редактировать ]Приз Orteig был вознаграждением в размере 25 000 долларов США (эквивалентно 439 000 долл. США в 2023 году) [ 3 ] Предлагается 22 мая 1919 года владельцем отеля New York Raymond Orteig для первого авиатора союзников, чтобы перелететь без перерыва из Нью-Йорка в Париж или наоборот. [ 2 ] Предложение было в духе нескольких аналогичных предложений по авиационным приходам и было сделано в письме Алану Рамсей Хоули , президенту Аэро клуба Америки по поручению секретаря Aero Club Augustus Post .
Джентльмены: как стимул для смелых авиаторов, я желаю предложить посредством эгии и правил аэроучатого клуба Америки, приз в размере 25 000 долларов до первого авиатора любой союзной страны, пересекающей Атлантику в одном полете, от Парижа до нового Йорк или Нью -Йорк в Париж, все остальные детали в вашем опеке.
Твой очень искренне,
Раймонд Ортиг [ 4 ]
Аэро клуб ответил 26 мая, когда Ортиг подтвердил свое предложение через три дня. Его предложение было принято Aero Club, а Augustus Post создали официальную структуру для управления конкуренцией.
По совпадению, всего несколько недель спустя Алкок и Браун успешно завершили первый безостановочный перекресток Атлантики из Ньюфаундленда в Ирландию , выиграв предыдущее предложение призов , а в конце июня британский авиадисмысл R34 совершил пересечение восток-запад с East Fortune , Шотландия, на Лонг -Айленд , Нью -Йорк , возвращается по тому же маршруту в начале июля.
Предлагаемая в течение пяти лет, цель приза казалась вне потенциала самолетов того времени, и приз не привлекал конкурентов. После истечения срока его первоначального срока Ортиг переиздал приз 1 июня 1925 года, внеся 25 000 долларов США на договорные ценные бумаги в Банант Банк с предоставлением назначения под контролем совета попечителей из семи человек. [ 5 ] К тому времени состояние авиационной технологии продвинулось до такой степени, что многочисленные конкуренты боролись за приз.
Попытки на приз
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In 1926 the first serious attempt on the prize was made by a team led by French flying ace René Fonck, backed by Igor Sikorsky, the aircraft designer. Sikorsky, who put $100,000 towards the attempt, built an aircraft, the S-35, for the purpose, and in September that year Fonck, with three companions, made their flight. However the aircraft was hopelessly overloaded and crashed in flames attempting to take off. Fonck and his co-pilot, Curtin, survived, but his companions, Clavier and Islamoff, were killed.
By 1927 three groups in the United States and one in Europe were known to be preparing attempts on the prize.
From the US:
- polar explorer Richard E. Byrd, with Floyd Bennett and George Noville as crew, and backed by Rodman Wanamaker, had commissioned an aircraft, a trimotor named America from designer Anthony Fokker.
- aviators Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta, backed by Charlie Levine, planned an attempt in a Bellanca aircraft named Columbia.
- a third team, Stanton Wooster and Noel Davis, prepared to try in a Keystone Pathfinder, named American Legion for their principal supporters,
Meanwhile, in France, Charles Nungesser and François Coli were preparing for an east-west crossing in a Levasseur aircraft, L'Oiseau Blanc.
In April 1927 the various teams assembled and prepared for their attempts, but all suffered mishaps.
Chamberlin and Acosta undertook a series of flights, increasing Columbia's weight as they went to test the aircraft's capability and to simulate the planned takeoff weight. They also simulated the duration of the flight, setting an endurance record in the process. However their attempt was riven with arguments, between Levine and the others, resulting in Acosta leaving the team for Byrd's and his replacement, Lloyd Bertaud, taking legal action against Levine over a contract dispute.
Byrd's team also made preparations. Wanamaker had the Roosevelt Field improved (Fonck's crash had been caused in part by the aircraft hitting a sunken road running across the runway) while Byrd had a ramp built for America to roll down on takeoff, providing extra impetus. However, on 8 April Byrd's team, in America, crashed during a test flight; Bennet was injured and unable to continue.
On 26 April Davis and Wooster, in American Legion, also crashed on a test flight; this time both were killed.
On 8 May Nungesser and Coli set off from Paris in L'Oiseau Blanc to attempt an east-west crossing, a more difficult proposition given the prevailing winds; they were last seen off the coast of Ireland, but never arrived in New York and no trace of them was ever found, creating one of aviation's great mysteries.
Meanwhile, a late challenge, by solo flyer Charles Lindbergh in Ryan aircraft Spirit of St. Louis, and backed by bankers in St. Louis, Missouri, was started in February, with Lindbergh arriving at Roosevelt Field in mid-May.
Lindbergh had chosen to fly solo, although this was not a requirement of the prize and required him to be at the controls for more than 30 hours. Following a period of bad weather, and before it had sufficiently cleared, Lindbergh took off for Paris, stealing a march on his rivals.
Lindbergh pursued a risky strategy for the competition; instead of using a tri-motor, as favored by most other groups, he decided on a single engined aircraft. The decision allowed him to save weight and carry extra fuel as a reserve for detours or emergencies. He also decided to fly the aircraft solo, so avoiding the personality conflicts that helped delay at least one group. To save weight which had contributed to the crashes of other contributors, Lindbergh also dispensed with non-essential equipment like radios, sextant, and a parachute, although he did take an inflatable raft. The final factor in his success was his decision to fly into weather conditions that were clearing but not clear enough for others to consider safe. Lindbergh was quoted as saying "What kind of man would live where there is no danger? I don't believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished by not taking a chance at all."[6]
Aftermath
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After Lindbergh's success, the other teams had to re-evaluate their aims.
Chamberlin decided to attempt a flight to Berlin, which his endurance flight had shown to be achievable, and for which the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce were offering a $15,000 prize. On 4 June Chamberlin (and, at the last minute, Levine) took off in Columbia for Berlin; they arrived over Germany after a flight of 42 hours but were unable to find their way to the city and landed, out of fuel, at Eisleben, 60 miles to the south-west. They finally arrived in Berlin on 7 June.
Byrd, meanwhile, announced his aim was not simply the prize, but “to demonstrate that the world was ready for safe, regular, multi-person flight across the Atlantic” [7] and that he would head for Paris, as planned. He and his crew, Acosta, Noville and, as a late addition, Bernt Balchen (who actually did most of the flying) set off in America for Paris on 29 June. However, after a 40-hour flight they were unable to find the airfield at Le Bourget and turned back to ditch on the coast, landing at Ver-sur-Mer, Normandy, on 1 July.
Advancing public interest and aviation technology, the Prize occasioned investments many times the value of the prize. In addition, people died by men who were competing to win the prize. Six men died in three separate crashes. Another three men were injured in a fourth crash. During the spring and summer of 1927, 40 pilots attempted various long-distance over-ocean flights, leading to 21 deaths during the attempts. For example, seven people died in August 1927 in the Orteig Prize-inspired $25,000 Dole Air Race to fly from San Francisco to Hawaii.[8]
1927 saw a number of aviation firsts and new records. The record for longest time in the air, longest flight distance, and longest overwater flight were set and all exceeded Lindbergh's effort. However, no other flyer gained the fame that Lindbergh did for winning the Orteig Prize.
The Orteig Prize inspired the $10 million Ansari X Prize for repeated suborbital private spaceflights. Similar to the Orteig Prize, it was announced some eight years before it was won in 2004.[9]
Timeline
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[edit]- April - Ludwik Idzikowski arrives in Paris to investigate aircraft for the Polish airforce. He will also begin planning a trans-Atlantic flight.
- September 21 - Attempting a New York to Paris flight, Frenchman René Fonck with co-pilot Lt. Lawrence Curtin of the US Navy, crashed their $100,000 Sikorsky S.35 on takeoff, killing radio operator Charles Clavier and mechanic Jacob Islamoff.
- Late October - Richard E. Byrd announces that he is entering competition.
1927
[edit]- February - Igor Sikorsky was reported to be building a new aircraft for Fonck.
- April 16 - A test flight of Byrd's $100,000 Fokker C-2 monoplane, America results in a nose-over crash, resulting in Byrd suffering a broken wrist, pilot Floyd Bennett breaking his collarbone and leg, and flight engineer George Otto Noville requiring surgery for a blood clot.
- April 25 - Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta in the $25,000 Bellanca WB-2 monoplane, Columbia, set the world endurance record for airplanes, staying aloft circling New York City for 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds and covering 4,100 miles, more than the 3,600 mile from New York to Paris
- April 26 - U.S Naval pilots, Lieut. Comdr. Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, are killed when their Keystone Pathfinder, American Legion, fails to gain altitude during a test flight at Langley Field, Virginia, about a week before they expected to attempt the New York to Paris flight.
- Early May - Both Chamberlain's and Byrd's group are at adjoining Curtiss and Roosevelt Fields in New York awaiting favorable flight conditions. The owner of Chamberlain's aircraft, Charles Levine is feuding with co-pilot Lloyd W. Bertaud who obtains a legal injunction. Byrd's group are still testing new equipment and instruments.
- May 8 - Charles Nungesser and François Coli attempted a Paris to New York crossing in a Levasseur PL-8 biplane, ' L'Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird) ' but were lost at sea, or possibly crashed in Maine.
- May 10 - May 12 - Repositioning his $10,000 Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, to Curtiss Field, in New York, Charles A. Lindbergh sets a new North American transcontinental speed record.
- May 11 - Byrd's financial backers forbid the group to fly until Nungesser and Coli's fate is known.[citation needed]
- May 15 - Lindbergh completes test flights. The Spirit of St. Louis total flight time is only 27 hours, 25 minutes, less than the predicted time of the Atlantic crossing.[citation needed]
- May 17 - Planned transatlantic flight of Lloyd W. Bertaud and Clarence D. Chamberlin was cancelled after an argument between the two fliers and their chief backer, Charles A. Levine.[10]
- May 19 - Lindbergh has his aircraft moved to the longer runway at Roosevelt Field, Byrd having offered him its use, and prepares to fly the next morning.[citation needed][11]
- May 20 - Lindbergh takes off, requiring ground crew to push the Spirit of St. Louis, which is flying for the first time with a full load of fuel, but no parachute, radio or sextant to save weight.[citation needed]
- May 21 - Lindbergh captures the Orteig Prize, making the first solo transatlantic flight, in 33½ hours.
- May 21 - Byrd's America officially christened at almost the same time as Lindbergh landed in Paris.[citation needed]
- June 4 - June 6 - Two weeks after Lindbergh, Chamberlain, without Bertaud and with Levine as his passenger, flies the Columbia from New York to Eisleben, Germany, a record distance of 3,911 miles.[12]
- June 16 - Lindbergh is awarded the Orteig Prize[13]
- June 29 - Byrd with replacement pilot Bernt Balchen, co-pilot Acosta and engineer Noville fly to Paris in 40 hours, but end up safely ditching in the Atlantic after encountering fog over Paris.[14]
Challengers
[edit]| Date | Picture | Pilot | Aircraft | Flight time | Results |
| 1926 | 
|
 René Fonck and crew:Lawrence Curtin Charles Clavier (died) Jacob Islamoff (died) |
Sikorsky S-35 | - | Gear collapse from excess weight during take-off; crashed in flames |
| 1927 | 
|
Charles Nungesser François Coli |
L'Oiseau Blanc. | unknown | Disappeared at sea |
| 1927 | 
|
 Charles Lindbergh
|
Spirit of St. Louis | 331⁄2 hours | Winner |
| 1927 | Noel Davis Stanton Wooster |
American Legion | - | Crashed during test flight; both killed | |
| 1927 | Clarence Chamberlin, Bert Acosta (replaced by Levine) Lloyd Berthaud (left after disagreement with Levine) Charlie Levine |
Columbia | 42 hours | Flew to Germany mid-June | |
| 1927 | 
|
Richard E. Byrd and crew: Floyd Bennett (injured in test flight) Bert Acosta (joined later), Bernt Balchen (joined for flight), George Noville |
Fokker America | 40 hours | Flew to France late June; ditched on French coast |
See also
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[ редактировать ]- ^ «Линдберг дал чек от Ортига», архивировав 29 сентября 2015 года на машине Wayback . Gettysburg Times (Associated Press), 17 июня 1927 г., с. 2. Получено: 8 января 2016 года.
- ^ Jump up to: а беременный Бак Страницы 28 и 29.
- ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, JJ (1997). Сколько это в реальных деньгах? Исторический индекс цен для использования в качестве дефлятора денег в экономике Соединенных Штатов: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF) . Американское антикварное общество . 1700–1799: McCusker, JJ (1992). Сколько это в реальных деньгах? Исторический индекс цен для использования в качестве дефлятора денег в экономике Соединенных Штатов (PDF) . Американское антикварное общество . 1800 - Present: Федеральный резервный банк Миннеаполиса. «Индекс потребительской цены (оценка) 1800–» . Получено 29 февраля 2024 года .
- ^ Назад. Страница 29.
- ^ Назад. Страница 41.
- ^ Линдберг: загадочный герой Flight , фон Хардст, 2002.
- ^ Брайсон P202
- ^ Конант, Джейн Эшельман (10 октября 1955 г.). «Pioneer Pacific Fiers написал трагическую главу в истории воздуха» . Сан-Франциско Call-Bulletin . Виртуальный музей города Сан -Франциско. Архивировано с оригинала 26 сентября 2011 года . Получено 2011-08-20 .
- ^ Бельфиоре, Майкл (2007). Ракетеры: как дальновидная группа лидеров бизнеса, инженеров и пилотов смело приватизирует пространство . Нью -Йорк: Смитсоновские книги. стр. 15–17, 30. ISBN 978-0-06-114903-0 Полем Архивировано с оригинала 2015-05-15 . Получено 2014-12-28 .
- ^ Американцы планируют Ocean Dash », Miami Daily News , 11 мая 1927 г., стр.
- ^ «Линдберг взлетает из Нью -Йорка, пытаясь летать в одиночку в Париж» . United Press International . 20 мая 1927 года . Получено 24 мая 2020 года .
- ^ «Кларенс Д. Чемберлин вспоминает исторический полет, объясняет, почему Линдберг победил Левина через Атлантику» . Архивировано из оригинала 3 сентября 2011 года . Получено 19 сентября 2011 года .
- ^ «Линдберг дал чек от Ортига» . Геттисбергские времена . Нью-Йорк. Ассошиэйтед Пресс. 17 июня 1927 г. с. 2. Архивировано с оригинала 29 сентября 2015 года . Получено 2013-09-24 .
- ^ Симмонс, Джордж (1965). Цель: Арктика, мужчины в небе на вершине мира . Филадельфия: Чилтон книги. С. 107–108. OCLC 486837 .
Дальнейшее чтение
[ редактировать ]- Бак, Ричард (2011). Большой прыжок - Линдберг и великая атлантическая авиационная гонка . Хобокен: Джон Уайли и сыновья. ISBN 978-0-471-47752-5 .
- Брайсон, Билл (2015) Одним летом: Америка 1927 . Лондон: Transworld Publishers ISBN 9780385608282
Внешние ссылки
[ редактировать ]- Трансатлантический полет Америки
- Чарльз Линдберг временной шкалы
- Стентон Холл Вустер Лейтенант, ВМС США Ноэль Дэвис и Стентон Вустер