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BENDIX TROPHY RACE

Released by Frost & Crawford
8627 Beverly Blvd.
Bradshaw 2-4208

For Release Friday, August 9, 1946 [[underlined]]

More than 120 entry applications have been received for the $25,000 Bendix Trophy Race, transcontinental air race from Los Angeles to Cleveland, it was revealed today by Larry Therkelsen, chairman of the Los Angeles race committee.

The famous annual air race, first won by Jimmy Doolittle in 1931, will start at about 7 a.m. August 30th from Aviation Maintenance Corporation's huge service base at Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys. The finish, 2045 miles away, is at Cleveland Municipal Airport, Cleveland, Ohio.

"Of course we don't expect anything like 120 actual entrants in the race," said Therkelsen, "but there is no doubt that this year's Bendix Race will be the biggest there has ever been. My guess is there will be about fifty airplanes that will actually take off. 

"The preliminary deadline for contestants is now set at midnight Saturday, August 10th. All airplanes and pilots must be approved by a committee of the National Aeronautical Association before the entry is official."

The last Bendix Race was held in 1939. It was won by Frank Fuller of San Francisco flying in a special Seversky racing plane. His time for the course was 7 hours, 14 minutes and his average speed 282.098 miles per hour.

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