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Frank Fuller

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Frank Fuller, Seversky Plane

Frank W. Fuller, Jr., San Francisco business man, who last year flashed across the finish line at Cleveland, in the record time of 7 hours, 54 minutes, has again entered his Seversky in the Bendix Trophy Race, and hopes to better his old record. In last year's race Fuller not only set a new record to Cleveland, but established two other intercity records when he continued on to Bendix, New Jersey. He flew the 1360 miles from Burbank to Kansas City in 4 hours and 58 minutes, an average speed of 272 miles per hour. The 2450 miles between Burbank and New York he made in 9 hours and 35 minutes, an average speed of 255 miles per hour.

Other records set by Fuller since the last Bendix Trophy Race include: San Francisco to Salt Lake City, October 10, 1937, a distance of 600 miles in 2 hours and 17 minutes, average speed of 263 miles per hour; Vancouver, Canada to Agua Caliente, Mexico on November 3, 1937, a distance of 1192 miles in 4 hours and 54 minutes, average speed of 243 miles per hour; San Francisco to Los Angeles on February 15, 1938, a distance of 330 miles, in 1 hour and 7 minutes, average speed 296 miles per hour; San Francisco to Seattle on May 25, 1938, a distance of 717 miles, in 2 hours and 31 minutes, average speed of 284 miles per hour; Vancouver, Canada to Oakland on May 28, 1938, a distance of 793 miles, in three hours and 8 minutes, average speed 260 miles per hour.

This amazing array of records that were established in one year were all accomplished in the Seversky, Mr. Fuller used in winning last year's Bendix Trophy Race.

Jacqueline Cochran

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Jacqueline Cochran

Jacqueline Cochran, only woman entrant in the Bendix Trophy Race of 1938, learned to fly in three weeks, in 1932. She has kept up the same speed ever since, establishing a variety of records that any man would be proud of. Last year she garnered first place in the women's division of the Bendix Trophy Race and placed third, competing against male pilots. She flew a Beechcraft then, but this year is flying a Seversky Pursuit in which she set a non-stop record from New York to Miami of 4 hours and 12 minutes, approximately 300 miles per hour.

In July, 1937, Miss Cochran established the national women's speed record of 203 miles per hour over a 100 kilometer course only to smash it in December, 1937 with a new record of 252.875 miles per hour. Four days later she again broke the record with a speed of 255.973 miles per hour.

In April, Mrs. Roosevelt presented Miss Cochran with the Harmon Trophy for outstanding achievement among women flyers in 1937. In March, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker presented her with the William Mitchell Award for outstanding achievement among men and women flyers during 1937.

Aside from her activities in aviation, Miss Cochran owns and supervises a laboratory for the manufacture of cosmetics which are sold under the slogan: "Wings to Beauty". She has three beauty salons located in Los Angeles, Chicago and Lake Forest, Ill. Her cosmetics will be sold in the national market this fall.