The Bendix Trophy is a U.S. aeronautical racing trophy. The transcontinental, point-to-point race, sponsored by industrialist Vincent Bendix founder of...

Bendix Corporation is an American manufacturing and engineering company which, during various times in its existence, made automotive brake shoes and systems...

holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix trophy, alongside Blanche Noyes. She was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation...

Inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame Bendix (Automobile) Chateau Bendix Bendix Trophy Vincent Bendix. Enshrined 1991 (National Aviation Hall of...

introduced by Bendix. Bendix Trophy Defunct helicopter manufacturers of the United States Aviation portal Connecticut portal Helis.com: Bendix Helicopters...

household appliances Bendix (automobile), a car manufactured in the early 1900s Bendix drive, part of an automobile starter motor Bendix Trophy Bendiks This disambiguation...

passion for Mantz in the late-1930s. He entered his Lockheed Orion in the Bendix Trophy transcontinental dash from Los Angeles to Cleveland, placing third in...

aerospace trophies the B-58 won were the Bleriot Trophy, the Thompson Trophy, the Mackay Trophy, the Bendix Trophy, and the Harmon Trophy. Singer John...

prototype SEV-1XP as a single seat racer, the S-1 entering it into the 1937 Bendix Trophy, where it finished in fourth place. The competition was won by the S-2...

but was a non-starter in the Bendix Trophy race due to a fuel leak. On September 2, 1934, he set off after the Bendix race anyway, to show that he could...

only airplane ever designed for the specific purpose of winning the Bendix Trophy. The plane was designed and developed by Ben Howard and Gordon Israel...

resume command through December of that year. Davis competed in the 1951 Bendix Trophy Transcontinental Air Race – jet class. He flew an F-84E from Muroc Field...

shortcoming was common to most racing machines of any kind. During the 1933 Bendix Trophy race, racing pilot Russell Boardman was killed, flying Number 11. During...

well-known air races of the period, the Bendix transcontinental and the Thompson closed-course classics. The Thompson Trophy was first awarded in 1929. The 1929...

U.S. Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California. He won the Bendix Trophy race from Los Angeles to New York City in May 1961, flying an F4H-1...

Thompson Trophy Races which started in 1929;: 83  a closed-course race where aviators raced their planes around pylons; and the Bendix Trophy Race, the...

third in the 1937 Bendix Trophy Race, all in a special Model D17W Staggerwing. The aircraft made an impressive showing in the 1938 Bendix race, as well....

Earhart was a vigorous advocate for female pilots and when the 1934 Bendix Trophy Race banned women, she openly refused to fly screen actress Mary Pickford...

tight engine cowling. The Super Solution was the first winner of the Bendix Trophy race from Burbank to Cleveland where it was flown by Maj. James H. Doolittle...

1921–1922 Louise Thaden, aviation pioneer, and the first woman to win the Bendix Trophy Dwight Tosh, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives...

aviator and aeronautical engineer, whose aircraft won the Bendix Trophy and the Thompson Trophy in 1935. At 17 Howard's interest in flying was sparked when...

excursions under their sponsorship. Thaw participated in two cross-country Bendix trophy races. These were instituted in 1931 and held annually to promote and...

as celebrities and royalty. The premier event — the first Gordon Bennett Trophy competition — was won by Glenn Curtiss, who beat second-place finisher Louis...

1934 Bendix Trophy, but crashed and was killed while leading the Thompson Trophy Race on September 3, 1934. Roscoe Turner won the Thompson Trophy in a...

Wedell-Williams pilot, John Worthen flew the 45 to a second place in the 1934 Bendix Trophy race and if not for a navigation error would have demolished the 44's...

"souped up" and modified for air racing in the Bendix Trophy, the Cleveland Air Races, and the Thompson Trophy. Many of these engines remain heavily used...

The one highlight in its short service life was VF-51's win in the Bendix Trophy Race for jets in September 1948. The unit entered seven FJ-1s, flying...

Nesbit's son became an accomplished pilot, placing third in the 1935 Bendix Trophy race from Los Angeles to Cleveland, ahead of Amelia Earhart in fifth...

For the flight, the B-58A's will receive not only the Bendix Trophy, but also the MacKay Trophy. March 8 – A Turkish Airlines Fairchild F-27 crashes in...

fighter units from World War II. In 1957, a group pilot earned the Bendix Trophy, flying a Convair F-102 Delta Dagger. During the Cuban Missile Crisis...