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BENDIX TROPHY EVENT
Sponsored by Bendix Aviation Corporation


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Capt. Edward W. Kenny, USAF, winner of the 1954 Bendix Trophy Event, holding the Bendix Trophy presented by Malcom P. Ferguson, president of the Bendix Aviation Corporation.


THE Bendix Aviation Corporation is again sponsoring the Bendix Trophy Event, transcontinental speed dash, starting from California and finishing at Philadelphia International Airport, and will award the Bendix Trophy to the winner.

The Bendix Aviation Corporation has sponsored this event since 1931. Sponsorship was predicated on encouraging experimental work toward the development of higher cross country speed and new transcontinental speed records.
Originally the Bendix Transcontinental Speed Dash was a free-for-all for all types of airplanes. It now offers competition for U.S. Service jet airplanes only.

This year's contest will be flown by USAF F-100 jets from George Air Force Base, Victorville, California, to the finishing point at Philadelphia. The shortest elapsed time will be the method of declaring the winner. An airplane must arrive at Philadelphia between 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 3rd, to be eligible.

The "J" Division of the Bendix Transcontinental Trophy Race had its inception in 1946 when a group of U.S. Air Force pilots flying P-80 Shooting Stars streaked across the country from Van Nuys, California, to Cleveland in record time including a stop for refueling. The event was won by Col. Leon Gray at an average speed of 494.77 mph.

Again in 1947 Col. Leon Gray flying a P-80 jet flashed across the country to become a two-time "J" Division winner in the Bendix. He flew from Van Nuys to Cleveland at an average speed of 507.25 mph to eclipse his record of the previous year by 13.48 minutes. His elapsed time was 4 hours, 2 minutes and 18 seconds.

In 1948 the Bendix Race started from Long Beach, California, and the "J" Division was flown for the first time by pilots of the Navy. In North American FJ-1 Jets, Ens. F. E. Brown flew the race to Cleveland at an average speed of 489.52 mph to place first.

All entries in the 1949 event took off simultaneously from Rosamond Dry Lake, California. Flying Republic F-84's with Allison J-35 jet engines Major Vernon A. Ford placed first at an average speed of 529.61 mph. His elapsed time to Cleveland was 3 hours, 45 minutes, 51 seconds.

Winner of the 1951 Jet competition from Muroc, California, to Detroit was Col. Keith K. Compton, USAF, in an F-86A North American Sabre. Compton made the 1919.6-mile flight in 3 hours, 26 minutes, 56.4 seconds for a new speed record of 551.761 mph.

Major W. T. Whisner, Jr., USAF, flying an F86F North American Sabre from Edwards Air Force Base, California, to Dayton, made a record of 603.547 mph to win the 1953 event. His elapsed time was 3 hours, 5 minutes, 45 seconds.

Capt. Edward W. Kenny, USAF, set a new record of 616.208 mph in the 1954 classic flying a Republic F-84F Thunderstreak 1900 miles from Edwards Air Force Base, California, to Dayton in 3 hours, 1 minute, 56 seconds.


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How the Holley "hidden co-pilot" does two jobs with one handle control


Throughout the entire operational range of the new Douglas YC-124B, engine, power and propeller governor setting must be precisely coordinated. This has always been a "two-handle" job but in this new airplane the job is done with a single control lever and the help of a Holly Power Control which functions like a "hidden co-pilot".

The Holly Power Control not only coordinates the engine and propeller for all forward thrust conditions but also controls the vital reversing of thrust necessary to reduce the aircraft's landing roll.

Designed, developed and manufactured by Holley, the "hidden co-pilot" is dependable, easy to service, compact and lightweight—four qualities that always distinguish Holley aviation equipment.

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