The Bendix Trophy is a U.S. aeronautical racing trophy. The transcontinental, point-to-point race, sponsored by industrialist Vincent Bendix founder of...

Bendix Corporation is an American manufacturing and engineering company which, during various times in its existence, made automotive brake shoes and systems...

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...

holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix trophy, alongside Blanche Noyes. She was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation...

Inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame Bendix (Automobile) Chateau Bendix Bendix Trophy Vincent Bendix. Enshrined 1991 (National Aviation Hall of...

introduced by Bendix. Bendix Trophy Defunct helicopter manufacturers of the United States Aviation portal Connecticut portal Helis.com: Bendix Helicopters...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

excursions under their sponsorship. Thaw participated in two cross-country Bendix trophy races. These were instituted in 1931 and held annually to promote and...

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...

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...

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...

as celebrities and royalty. The premier event — the first Gordon Bennett Trophy competition — was won by Glenn Curtiss, who beat second-place finisher Louis...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...