The Bendix Trophy is a U.S. aeronautical racing trophy. The transcontinental, point-to-point race, sponsored by industrialist Vincent Bendix founder of...
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Bendix Corporation is an American manufacturing and engineering company which, during various times in its existence, made automotive brake shoes and systems...
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passion for Mantz in the late-1930s. He entered his Lockheed Orion in the Bendix Trophy transcontinental dash from Los Angeles to Cleveland, placing third in...
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Louise Thaden (category Harmon Trophy winners)
holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix trophy, alongside Blanche Noyes. She was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation...
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Inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame Bendix (Automobile) Chateau Bendix Bendix Trophy Vincent Bendix. Enshrined 1991 (National Aviation Hall of...
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introduced by Bendix. Bendix Trophy Defunct helicopter manufacturers of the United States Aviation portal Connecticut portal Helis.com: Bendix Helicopters...
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household appliances Bendix (automobile), a car manufactured in the early 1900s Bendix drive, part of an automobile starter motor Bendix Trophy Bendiks This disambiguation...
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prototype SEV-1XP as a single seat racer, the S-1 entering it into the 1937 Bendix Trophy, where it finished in fourth place. The competition was won by the S-2...
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Emmett Smith Davis (section Bendix Trophy)
resume command through December of that year. Davis competed in the 1951 Bendix Trophy Transcontinental Air Race – jet class. He flew an F-84E from Muroc Field...
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only airplane ever designed for the specific purpose of winning the Bendix Trophy. The plane was designed and developed by Ben Howard and Gordon Israel...
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aerospace trophies the B-58 won were the Bleriot Trophy, the Thompson Trophy, the Mackay Trophy, the Bendix Trophy, and the Harmon Trophy. Singer John...
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shortcoming was common to most racing machines of any kind. During the 1933 Bendix Trophy race, racing pilot Russell Boardman was killed, flying Number 11. During...
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but was a non-starter in the Bendix Trophy race due to a fuel leak. On September 2, 1934, he set off after the Bendix race anyway, to show that he could...
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well-known air races of the period, the Bendix transcontinental and the Thompson closed-course classics. The Thompson Trophy was first awarded in 1929. The 1929...
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U.S. Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California. He won the Bendix Trophy race from Los Angeles to New York City in May 1961, flying an F4H-1...
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1931 Bendix Trophy which it won, piloted by Jimmy Doolittle. This aircraft was modified with retractable landing gear for the 1932 Bendix Trophy but on...
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third in the 1937 Bendix Trophy Race, all in a special Model D17W Staggerwing. The aircraft made an impressive showing in the 1938 Bendix race, as well....
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excursions under their sponsorship. Thaw participated in two cross-country Bendix trophy races. These were instituted in 1931 and held annually to promote and...
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Amelia Earhart (category Harmon Trophy winners)
1930. Earhart was a vigorous advocate for female pilots; when the 1934 Bendix Trophy Race banned women from competing, Earhart refused to fly screen actor...
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aviator and aeronautical engineer, whose aircraft won the Bendix Trophy and the Thompson Trophy in 1935. At 17 Howard's interest in flying was sparked when...
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tight engine cowling. The Super Solution was the first winner of the Bendix Trophy race from Burbank to Cleveland where it was flown by Maj. James H. Doolittle...
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as celebrities and royalty. The premier event — the first Gordon Bennett Trophy competition — was won by Glenn Curtiss, who beat second-place finisher Louis...
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National Air Races (redirect from Pulitzer Trophy Race)
Thompson Trophy Races which started in 1929;: 83 a closed-course race where aviators raced their planes around pylons; and the Bendix Trophy Race, the...
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to October 1956. In 1956, Fernandez had won aviation's prestigious Bendix Trophy Race by maximizing his speed and fuel consumption with old tricks learned...
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1934 Bendix Trophy, but crashed and was killed while leading the Thompson Trophy Race on September 3, 1934. Roscoe Turner won the Thompson Trophy in a...
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England Chinese Communist forces captured Xining. Joseph De Bona won the Bendix Trophy in a modified F-51 Mustang, setting a new average speed record of 470...
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1921–1922 Louise Thaden, aviation pioneer, and the first woman to win the Bendix Trophy Dwight Tosh, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives...
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aircraft had been flown by Paul Mantz, winning the transcontinental Bendix Trophy air races in 1946 and 1947, and finishing second in 1948 and third in...
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Nesbit's son became an accomplished pilot, placing third in the 1935 Bendix Trophy race from Los Angeles to Cleveland, ahead of Amelia Earhart in fifth...
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Richard Gordon, USN and RIO, Lieutenant Bobbie Young, USN, the 1961 Bendix trophy. Operation Sageburner: On 28 August 1961, a F4H-1F Phantom II averaged...
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