Viewing page 7 of 7
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
STATISTICS BENDIX TROPHY RACE
[[6 Columned Table]]
| Year | Course | Pilot | Average Speed Per Hr. | Time | Money |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1936 | New York to Los Angeles | 1. Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes
(Beechcraft)
2. Laura Ingalls(Lockhead Orion)
3. Wm. S. Gulick and Buster Warner (Vultee)
4. Geo. Pomeroy (Douglas DC2)
5. Amelia Earhart and Helen Richey (Lockheed)
|165.346,157.466, 156.492, 151.467, 148.722|
|14:55:01,15:39:38, 15:45:25, 16:16:51, 16:34:53|
|$4500.00 2500.00,2500.00,1500.00,1000.0,500.0 |
-------------------------------------
| 1937 | Los Angeles to Cleveland | |1. Frank W. Fuller, Jr.
(Seversky)
2. Earl Ortman (Keith-Rider)
3. Jacqueline Cochran (Beechcraft)
4. Frank Sinclair (Seversky)
5. Milo Burcham (Lockheed)
6. Eiler C. Sundorph (Sundorph Special)|
|258.2, 224.833, 194.74, 184.92, 184.526, 166.21|
|7:54:26.31, 9:49:21.73, 10:29:8.70, 11:2:33.08, 11:3:58.28, 12:17:18|
|$9000.00, 5000.00, 3000.00, 2000.00, 1000.00 ---|
|For new competitive Transcontinental Record Los Angeles to Bendix, N.J.|
|Frank W. Fuller|255.| |9:35| |$2500.00|
|Purse for woman's first place Los Angeles to Cleveland| |Jacqueline Cochran| |$2500.00|
|Bonus to first pilot Los Angeles to Bendix, N.J.| |Frank W. Fuller| |$1500.00|
-------------------------------------
|1938| |Los Angeles to Cleveland|
|1. Jacqueline Cochran (Seversky)
2. Frank W. Fuller, Jr. (Seversky)
3. Paul Mantz (Lockheed Orion)
4. Max Constant (Beechcraft)
5. Ross Hadley (Beechcraft)
6. J. Hinchey
|249.774, 238.604, 206.579, 199.330, 181.842, 177.449| |8:10:31.4, 8:33:29.2, 9:36:25.4, 10:14:39.6, 11:13:46.4, 11:30:27.2| |$9000.00, 5000.00, 3000.00, 2000.00, 1000.00, ---|
|Bonus first pilot Los Angeles to Bendix, N.J.| |Jacqueline Cochran| |242.088| |10:07:10| |$1000.00|
|Bonus second pilot Los Angeles to Bendix, N.J.| |Frank W. Fuller, Jr| |236.503||10:21:30.3| |800.00|
|Woman's first Place Los Angeles to Cleveland| |Jacqueline Cochran| |$2500.00|
