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Vincent Bendix Trophy Race
Free-for-all Transcontinental Speed Dash 
TOTAL PURSE $25,000.00 and theVINCENT BENDIX TROPHY
Sponsored by MR. VINCENT BENDIX 

1. Vincent Bendix, President of the Bendix Aviation
Corporation, is sponsoring the BENDIX TROPHY RACE, a Free-for-all Transcontinental Speed Dash, starting at Los Angeles, California, and finishing at Cleveland,Ohio, and will award the Vincent Bendix Trophy to the winner. 

2. $20,000.00 of the total purse will be awarded the winners of the first five places on a division of prize money as shown below in paragraph No.11.

$2,500.00 will be awarded to the pilot who after finishing the race at Cleveland flies on to New York and establishes a new Transcontinental Record. If more than one pilot breaks the Transcontinental Speed Record, the $2,500.00 will be awarded to the pilot with the fastest time between the starting point and New York. 

$2,500.00 will be awarded to the woman pilot making the fasted elapsed time between the starting point at Los Angeles, Calif., and the finishing point at Cleveland, Ohio. 

3. The Bendix Transcontinental Speed Dash offers competition for all for all types of airplanes. The contest may be flown either non-stop or without refuel, or with refueling in flight, or with refuel landings, at the pilots option. The shortest elapsed time from the starting point at Los Angeles, Calif., and the finishing point at Cleveland, Ohio, will be the method of declaring the winner.

4. No airplane will be permitted to start in the Bendix Trophy Race which has not arrived at the start point 48 hours before the start of the Race and has been checked by the Contest Committee for the Bendix Trophy Race. 

5. The time of starting will be determined by the Contest Committee for the Bendix Trophy Race. The last pilots meeting for the Bendix Trophy Race, at which all contestants in the Race must be present, will be held at the starting point at 10 P. M. the day previous to the scheduled start of the Race. At this meeting it will be decided whether or not the Race will start and each pilot will designate the time he wishes to take off. Airplanes will be permitted to take off at any time the pilots elect after 12 0'clock midnight of the day preceding the scheduled start of the Race, with the special provision, however, that each airplane must arrive at the finish point on or before 6 P. M. the same date, in order to be eligible. Each pilot will designate the time at which he wishes to take off and no pilot will be permitted to take off before the time he has designated. Each pilot's elapsed time will commence at the time he has designated to start. In case several pilots should elect to start immediately after 12 o'clock midnight, or at the same time, actual starting will be according to the date on which the entry was filed, with the earliest entry starting first, next earliest entry starting second, etc. 

6. Weather permitting, the start will be made so as to bring the airplanes in on the Opening Day of the 1937 National Air Race, September 3rd. 

7. Individual standing starts will be used. The motor or motors may be turning over. Starting time will be taken from the starter's flag. 

8. The finish will be timed in flight at the crossing of the Finish Line. In order that the Timers can properly observe the Finish Line of the Race, the airplanes must fly at an altitude of not to exceed 1000 feet and at a distance of not to exceed 1500 feet from the grandstands, above the Finish Line which will be a white line extending at right angles to the grandstands on the flying field. If a race or programmed event is in progress at the time the airplane arrives, making it dangerous for the airplane to cross the Finish Line in front of the grandstand, an Alternate Finish Line will be used for which will be an imaginary extension of the Finish Line to the rear of the grandstands. Airplanes finding it necessary to use this Alternate Finish Line must fly at an altitude of not to exceed 500 feet and at a distance of not to exceed 1000 feet from the rear of the grandstands. Airplanes that are equipped with radio should endeavor to contact the Cleveland Municipal Airport asking the operator to the advise the Timers of their anticipated arrival time. 

9. The right to exclude any entry in this event is vested in the Contest Committee of the National Air Races and will be exercised at the starting point of the Race. The Contest Committee for the Bendix Trophy Race will act for the contest committee of the National Air Race in the exercise of this authority. 

10. The owner of the winning airplane, or an Aero Club he may designate, will be given possession of the VINCENT BENDIX TROPHY for ten months from the date of the Race. The pilot of the winning airplane will be awarded, for permanent possession, a gold replica of the Trophy; the pilot of the airplane winning second pace will be awarded, for permanent possession, a silver replica of the Trophy and the pilot of the airplane winning third place will be awarded, for permanent possession, a bronze replica of the Trophy. 

11. Prize Money: First Place, 45%; Second Place, 25%; Third Place, 15%; Fourth Place, 10%, and Fifth Place,5%.