Hearst prize
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The Hearst prize was a US$50,000 aviation prize offered by publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1910 to the first aviator to fly coast to coast in the United States, in either direction, in fewer than 30 days from start to finish.
The prize expired in November 1911 with no winner. Calbraith Perry Rodgers tried to win it, having started too late, but did complete the flight in 49 days, including several crash landings and maintenance delays.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Prize Competitions and NASA's Centennial Challenges Program. NASA (2005). Retrieved on 2007-09-23.
