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From: Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc.
10 East 40th St., MU 6 3200
New York 16, New York 8/15

For: BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION
For Release to Newspapers of 
Friday, August 17, 1956

EXPERTS PREDICT NEW SPEED RECORD IN BENDIX CLASSIC

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A new speed record is expected to be set by U.S. Air Force pilots in this year's Bendix Trophy classic, scheduled as the opening event of the National Aircraft Show here Sept. 1.
Aviation experts said the present Bendix record of 616.208 mph will be cracked by speed merchants of the Tactical Air Command, flying North American F-100C Super Sabres (the F-100 holds the official world's speed record of 822 mph.).
Six entries from TAC fighter-day groups and wings with an alternate for each will take aim at the Bendix record, set in 1954 by Capt. Edward W. Kenny of the Air Training Command, who flew from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. to Dayton, O.
This year the course will be from George Air Force Base, Calif. to Will Rogers Field, located on the outskirts of Oklahoma City.
Rules for the classic air event are now being worked out by TAC officers, according to Malcolm P. Ferguson, president of Bendix.
Maj. Gen. William O. Senter, (USAF), Department of Defense coordinating officer for the aircraft show, said the Bendix speed dash is designed "to show the nation and the world the skill of our pilots and the proficiency of our planes to meet the challenges of supersonic aerial warfare."
Gen. Jimmy Doolittle was a major when he won the first Bendix event in 1931. He flew from Lost Angeles to Cleveland in 9 hours and 10 minutes at an average speed of 223 mph. in a piston-driven Laird.
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