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into the cylinders of its engines, increasing their power and reliability. 
Though a relative youngster in the Bendix group, the Radio division, in Baltimore, has, since 1936, become a large enterprise through the successful pioneering of radio communication and detection and ranging devices for American aviation. Prior to the war it was producing 80 per cent of all communications equipment used by the world's commercial aircraft. Among the many creative responsibilities shared by this division with Army and Navy air forces during the war was the development and production of radar systems known as GCA (Ground Controlled Approach). GCA, it is worth nothing, provides a basis for peacetime employment of radar to enable transport and commercial aircraft to maintain safe, continuous ground-to-flight control checks under all weather conditions.
The Scintilla Division of Bendix Aviation Corporation, at Sydney, New York, has ben for several years the country's foremost producer of magnetos for aircraft use. Working in close collaboration with aircraft engine designers and producers, Scintilla's magnetos, pressurized ignition systems, and other types of equipment, helped to make possible the stepping up of the horsepower which carries America's planes around the world. 
At South Bend, Indiana, the Bendix Products Division, home of the Stromberg carburetor, is also one of the country's leading manufacturers of aircraft struts, wheels and brakes, ranging from the smallest to the largest sizes.
The Bendix Trophy Race was instituted in 1931, and won by Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle, then a Major. Flying a "Laird 400 Racer," Major Doolittle flew from Los Angeles to Cleveland at an average speed of 225 miles per hour, his official time being 9 hours, 10 minutes and 21 seconds.
He continued on to New York and established a new trans-continental