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BENDIX TROPHY RACE TRANSCONTINENTAL SPEED CLASSIC International Free-for-all—Men and Women Pilots TOTAL PURSE $30,000 & VINCENT BENDIX TROPHY Sponsored by Bendix Aviation Corporation 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. The Bendix Aviation Corporation, under the leadership of Vincent Bendix, its president, has sponsored this event since 1931. Sponsorship has been predicated on encouraging experimental work toward the development of higher cross country speed and new transcontinental speed records. Vincent Bendix The Bendix Trophy Race offers competition for all types of airplanes. The contest may be flown either non-stop without refuelling, or with refuelling in flight, or with refuel landings, at the pilot's 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. An airplane must arrive at the finish point at Cleveland between 12:00 noon and 6:00 P.M. on September 3rd to be eligible for the prize money. $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. $5,000.00 will be awarded to the pilot, who after finishing the race at Cleveland, flies on to Bendix Airport, Bendix, N.J., and establishes a new Bendix Transcontinental Record. If more than one pilot breaks the present Bendix Transcontinental Speed Record, the $5,000.00 will be awarded to the pilot with the fastest time between Los Angeles and Bendix, N.J. $2,500.00 of the above total purse will be awarded to the first three pilots who, after finishing the race at Cleveland, fly on to Bendix, N.J., and land at the Bendix Airport. Pilots do not have to establish a new transcontinental record to earn this prize money. The $2,500.00 will be divided as follows: $1,000 to the pilot making the fastest time between the start at Los Angeles and the finish at Bendix Airport. $800.00 to the pilot making the second fastest time. %700.00 to the pilot making the third fastest time. $2,500.00 will be awarded to the woman pilot making the fastest elapsed time between the starting point at Los Angeles and the finishing point at Cleveland, Ohio. The winner 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 place 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. Prize money: First Place, $9.00,00; Second Place, $5,000.00; Third Place, $3,000.00; Fourth Place, $2,000.00; Fifth Place, $1,000.00. Vincent Bendix Trophy 1938 NATIONAL AIR RACES 1931 WINNER Major James H. Doolittle Los Angeles to Cleveland 9 hrs., 10 min., 21 sec. Los Angeles to New York 11 hours, 16 minutes 1932 WINNER Capt. James H. Haizlip Burbank to Cleveland 8 hrs., 19 min., 45 sec. Burbank to N. Y. 10 hrs., 19 min. 1933 WINNER Col. Roscoe Turner New York to Los Angeles 11 hrs., 30 min. 1934 Los Angeles to N. Y. 10 hrs., 2 min., 51 sec. 1934 WINNER Douglas Davis Los Angeles to Cleveland 9 hrs., 26 m., 41 sec. 1935 WINNER Ben O. Howard Los Angeles to Cleveland 8 hrs., 33 min., 16.3 sec. 1936 WINNER Louise Thaden New York to Los Angeles 14 hrs., 54 min., 49 sec. 1937 WINNER Frank Fuller Burbank to Cleveland 7 hrs., 54min., 26.3 sec. Burbank to Bendix, N. J. 9 hrs., 35 min. PAGE 21
