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up WHERE THE AIR AGE WAS BORN [[image on right of text]] The arching canopy of sky touched none but peaceful shores in the late afternoon of a September day 15 years ago when a Laird biplane roared into Cleveland nine hours and ten minutes after its takeoff in Los Angeles. Out of the little racing plane climbed a grinning, square-chinned airman, Major James H. Doolittle, first winner of the Bendix Trophy and a pioneer of the air age. In the years that have followed since 1931 the age of flight has been carefully built, hastened by the grim necessities of war and guided by the sound lessons of flight learned and demonstrated in such nerve-tingling events as the transcontinental race for the Bendix Trophy. Out of these earnest beginnings came the knowledge, the skills and the products which put B-29's over Tokyo, jet P-80's roaring across a nation once again victoriously peaceful, thanks to its mastery of the air. We renew the Bendix Trophy Race knowing that out of such trails will come new miracles of peacetime air age. [[Logo]] Bendix AVIATION CORPORATION T R O P H Y R A C E BENDIX [[star image]] ECLIPSE [[star image]] PIONEER [[star image]] SCINTILLA [[star image]] STROMBERG [[star image]] FRIEZ [[star image]] ZENITH [[star image]] [[star image]] Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.