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nas File / Bendix Trophy Race 1956

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August 29, 1956
GEN. DOOLITTLE WON FIRST BENDIX TROPHY RACE

Griffing Bancroft, News of America, at 9:00 A.M. over WDRC (Hartford, Conn.) and CBS Network:

"In San Francisco Lt.-General Jimmy Doolittle has a prediction. In the not too distant future you can take off in New York and land in San Francisco before you took off. So Says the man who won the first Bendix Trophy race in 1931 and went on to set a trans-continental record of 12 hours. 

"We now have fighter planes in the thousand mile per hour class, General Doolittle said in an interview. It's only a matter of time until commercial aircraft will be flying across the continent in less than three hours. With the aid of the three hour time differential from coast to coast, this would mean arriving before you left--by the clock, of course.

"This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Bendix Trophy race, aviation's equivalent of the Kentucky Derby or the Indianapolis Speedway classic. Doolittle won that first race in 1931 from Los Angeles to Cleveland. He refuelled, took off from New York and became the first man to cross the continent in 12 hours."

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