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*International air meets began in 1909, on the plains of Bethany, Belgium, near Rheims, to decide among the nations who had the speediest airplanes. Thereafter the meets lapsed for eleven years. In 1920, the Pulitzer brothers of New York, owners of The New York World, instituted a speed trophy, asked the National Aeronautic Association of America to administer it. The meet, however, is no longer properly termed "international." At Dayton this year, no foreign nations entered planes; were represented only by aviation attaches. †Wilbur Wright, died of pneumonia May 30, 1912.