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the Liberty engine developed during the war. Down through the years Bendix has been the primary supplier of aircraft starters of many types, and has pioneered a long list of developments, keeping pace with the increasing horsepower of American aviation engines.
At the request of the Navy, this early ancestor of the present Bendix corporation equipped the famous NC-1, 2, 3 and 4 planes which the Navy flew around the world shortly after the end of World War I.  Largely as a result of the satisfactory performance of these starters, the business of Bijur in aircraft starters rapidly expanded.
In the aviation instrument field, the group which is now a part of the Eclipse-Pioneer Division of Bendix, at Teterboro, New Jersey, similarly has been engaged in the constant development of all types of flight instruments.  Many Pioneer instruments have been carried by history-making planes in trans-ocean, trans-continental, and round-the-world flights.  Lindbergh's famous "Spirit of St. Louis" carried Pioneer instruments.
Another company which became a part of the Bendix family in 1929 is Stromberg, a name synonymous with aircraft carburetor performance.  Many years of research and development went into the Stromberg fuel injection carburetors which equipped the vast majority of American Army and Navy planes during World War II.
As early as 1938, Bendix was ready with this fuel injection carburetor which makes possible the constant, reliable metering of fuel to aircraft engines in low and high altitudes, and varying speeds and attitudes of the plane.
In the later stages of World War II, Bendix again pushed the frontier of aircraft power forward with direct fuel injection systems for the super-power engines.  Designed specifically for the B-29, and now used also on other military and civilian planes, these systems meter gasoline directly