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Setting a new pace for [[image]] THE VINCENT BENDIX TROPHY THE SIXTH ANNUAL BENDIX TRANSCONTINENTAL the Commerce of the Air! Five times, the pick of America's top-flight pilots, in the swiftest ships the industry could provide have roared their way to splendid achievement in pursuit of the Vincent Bendix Trophy. That is interesting, and thrilling, but certainly of equal importance are the events that have followed [[image]] Vincent Bendix each Bendix Transcontinental Free-for-All Trophy Race. Faster, more reliable, safer, more comfortable, commercial airline schedules have followed, year after year, in the slipstream of this annual Air classic. That is why the Vincent Bendix trophy is awarded. The trophy itself is but the shining symbol— the gleaming recognition—of high endeavor gloriously successful. The real, and tangible, perpetuation of the frame of these champion airmen is in the inspiration they give to air travel and to aircraft design. As provider of vital equipment units for all commercial airline planes, army, navy, marine corps and coast guard planes, and for most individually-owned civilian planes, Bendix Aviation Corporation is companion to every air traveler ... including those who race today. BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION Chicago • New York • South Bend BENDIX PRODUCTS Bendix Airplane Wheels and Brakes, Pneudraulic Shock Struts, Pilot Seats • Stromberg Aircraft Carburetors • Scintilla Aircraft Magnetos • Bendix H. T. Aircraft Spark Plugs • Friez Weather Instruments • Pioneer Compasses • Turn, Bank and Climb Indicators • Altimeters • Tachometers • Air-Speed Indicators • Octants • Fuel and Water Level Indicators • Ammeters • Switches, etc. • Eclipse Hand Inertia Starters • Electric Inertia Starters • Direct Cranking Electric Starters • Hand Turning Gears • Retractible Landing Gear Motors • Air Injection Starters • Battery Charging Generators (voltage regulated) • Double Voltage Radio Generators (voltage regulated) •Radio Dynamotors•Engine Driven Radio Dynamotors (voltage regulated) • Engine Driven Alternators (constant speed) • Engine Driven Vacuum Pumps (for Navigating Instruments) • Battery Booster Coils • Automatic Supercharger Regulators • Booster Magnetos • Fuel Flowmeters • Superchargers • Automatic Pitch Propeller Hubs • Ice Overshoe Air Pumps • Flexible Metallic Tubing. [[image]] WINNER 1931 Major James H. Doolittle Los Angeles to Cleveland -9 hours, 10 minutes, 21 seconds Los Angeles to New York -11 hours, 16 minutes [[image]] WINNER 1932 Capt. James H. Haizlip Los Angeles to Cleveland -8 hours, 20 minutes Los Angeles to New York -10 hours, 19 minutes [[image]] WINNER 1933 Col. Roscoe Turner New York to Los Angeles -11 hours, 30 minutes 1934 Los Angeles to New York -10 hours, 2 minutes, 51 seconds [[image]] WINNER 1934 Douglas Davis Los Angeles to Cleveland -9 hours, 26 minutes, 41 seconds [[image]] WINNER 1935 Ben O. Howard Los Angeles to Cleveland -8 hours, 33 minutes, 16.3 seconds FREE-FOR-ALL TROPHY RACE
