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FOREWORD  

THE National Air Race project, recognized as a most influential factor in accelerating the development of aviation, has become invaluable as an institution to aeronautics. Conceived and dedicated to the advancement of aviation, the ever increasing influence of these National classics has now attained world significance. 

No single enterprise of like nature has so forcefully gripped the imaginations of youth and age as these stirring yearly classics. No National industrial project has so influenced and inspired engineering and inventive genius to greater accomplishments. 

In 1933 National Air Race program has been designed to conform with the many constructive suggestions of participating pilots and prominent of members of the industry interested in the success of competitive air racing in the United States. 

The program has been shortened to four days and restricted to high speed free-for-all competition in the several commercial competitive motor groups with $50,000.00 cash prize money in addition to many coveted trophies. 

International free-for-all competition is invited through the medium of the Vincent Bendix Trophy Race, trans-continental free-for-all; the Aerol Trophy Race, closed course free-for-all for women pilots; the Speed Dashes; Official World Record Attempts to establish three-kilometer strightaway speed in excess of 300 M.P.H.; and the Charles E. Thompson Trophy Race, closed course land plane classic, which has been increased to a distance of 200 miles. 

The armed Military and Naval Air Forces of the United States will again participate with the latest Military and Naval Air maneuvers. 

Finally, the program will be completed with a highly selected group of civilian acrobatic demonstrations which will invite increased public support and contribute to the financial success of the event. 

Each daily program will be augmented with a delightfully staged and spectacular night aerial demonstration and pyrotechnic display. 

To become identified with this colossal yearly project is to recognize and support aviation's contribution to the march of progress.

Your participation is invited.