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From: Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc.
      10 E. 40 St., MU 6-3200
      New York 16, N.Y.

For: BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION

F.Y.I. This story is being
released to the U.P. through
Air Force P.I.O. in Dayton

For Release Monday, August 31, 1953

'COPTER FERRY TO COOL OFF
10-MILE-A-MINUTE AIRMEN

DAYTON, Ohio -- After roaring along at 600-plus miles per hour in the 1,900-mile Bendix cross-country speed dash, at least 10 Sabrejet pilots will suddenly be "Slow-Waltzed" at a languid 100 m.p.h. in the helicopters that ferry them back to the "winner's circle" at the National Aircraft Show here.

A helicopter shuttle service is being provided for the show which opens for the Labor Day week-end on Sept.5. When the jet fliers have finished the course in the trophy event sponsored by the Bendix Aviation Corporation they will land at the Patterson Air Force Base, 10 1/2 miles from the Cox Municipal Airport where the show is being staged and the finish line marker stands. 

To get them back to the waiting crowds at Cox Airport the helicopters will pick up the pilots while still in their supersonic flying suits and jog them back to the show. It will take 8 minutes to cover the 10 1/2 miles. In their speed dash across the country from Edwards Air Force Base, California where the Bendix event starts they will have traveled almost 100 miles in the same time period.
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