The Everett Hatch Memorial prize fund money is still in the
bank collecting interest. Nobody entered in the Copper State 
race so the first rotary powered airplane to exceed 200 MPH
in next years four races will win $500 cash money from that fund.

Here is the the results of the 370 mile Dayton Ohio to OSH race.
I had to process the data from EAA Sport Av mag as they
had no speeds for some strange reason. All they had was the
race time. These are just the airplanes that completed the 
race in less than 2 hours. 

BTW the Polen Special had a landing gear problem at
Copper State and had to land gear up on the grass. Real shame
as that is a finely made airplane.
 

Time     Race#  Hours  MPH       Airplane
1:17:58  #99    1.299  284.74    Factory Lancair IV
1:19:07  #50    1.319  280.60    Questair Venture
1:19:48  #11    1.330  278.20    Lancair V8 
1:25:35  #10    1.426  259.40    SX300
1:32:49  #15    1.547  239.18    Berkut 
1:33:37  #31    1.560  237.14    Polen Special
1:39:21  #89    1.656  223.45    Bohannan RV special
1:41:43  #24    1.695  218.25    Glassair 1
1:42:34  #26    1.709  216.44    White Lightning
1:43:37  #77    1.727  214.25    Lancair 360
1:45:19  #38    1.755  210.79    Berkut 
1:49:31  #33    1.825  202.71    RV8
1:50:17  #35    1.838  201.30    Lancair 360
1:51:52  #80    1.864  198.45    Mustang II 
1:54:43  #52    1.912  193.52    Glassair II
1:55:54  #28    1.932  191.54    RV8
1:57:41  #66    1.961  188.64    VariEze

Paul Lamar
 
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