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From: Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc. 10 East 40th Street, MU 6-3200 New York 16, New York For Release to Newspapers of Tuesday, August 21, 1956 For: BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION AERIAL REFUELING TO BE PERMITTED IN BENDIX CLASSIC 1 OKLAHOMA CITY -- Aerial refueling will be permitted this year for the first time in the history of the Bendix Trophy classic, featured opening event of the National Aircraft Show here Sept. 1. Six crack pilots of the Tactical Air Command, flying supersonic record-shattering North American Super Sabre F-100C's over a 1,120-mile course from George Air Force Base, Calif. to Will Rogers Field, will have the choice of aerial refueling or the use of extra fuel tanks, according to Col. M. C. Horgan, chied of the Air Force operational control team at the Show. Captain Wallace B. McCafferty, Bendix project officer at George AFB, and one of the contestants in the last year's event, pointed out that each pilot must determine for himself the advantages and disadvantages of both techniques in the assault on the Bendix record of 616.208 mph, established in 1954 by Capt. Edward W. Kenny of the Air Training Command. "The know-how and skill of the pilots will be tested as never before in this event," Capt. McCafferty said. "A pilot using the technique of aerial refueling will be forced to slow down during the operation. However, he will have the advantage of a faster plane, free of the 'drag' of extra fuel tanks." Aviation experts predicted that, for the first time, a new Bendix record will be chalked up in the books at a speed faster than sound. (more)