Word: bendix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lovely,'' grinned Benny Howard, as attendants retanked his speedy little white monoplane Mister Mulligan at Wichita, Kan. one morning last week. With his pretty wife Maxine at his side, his sleek, self-designed plane functioning perfectly, Pilot Howard had reason to be pleased. Competing in the famed Bendix Transcontinental Race from New-York's Floyd Bennett Field to Los Angeles for the opening of the 1936 National Air Races. he already had a commanding lead...
Because of three spectacular withdrawals, his competitors were less formidable than they were in last year's Bendix Race when Pilot Howard flew Mister Mulligan to victory only 24 seconds ahead of Colonel Roscoe Turner. Fortnight ago, Colonel Turner cracked up on the way East for the race, was hospitalized with minor hurts. Flyer S. J. Wittman also had to quit on the way East when his plane caught fire at Cheyenne. Major Alexander P. de Seversky, designer of the world's fastest pursuit ship, was refused permission by the Army to fly it in the Bendix Race...
...surviving planes drop in. First flyer to finish was Brooklyn's William G. Warner in a Standard Vultee. But the race was won neither by Pilot Warner nor by Pilot Louis Brewer, the only other male left in the race. For the first time in six years the Bendix Race went to a woman- Louise McPhetridge Thaden. Flying with Co-Pilot Blanche Xoyes in a Beechcraft high-wing biplane. Pilot Thaden started several hours after Warner and Brewer, shot across the U. S. in 14 hr. 54 min. 49 sec., beating by 3 hr. 30 min. the women...
...Bendix finish was not the first thrill for the crowd. It had already seen a parachute jumper bashed to death in front of the stands, watched the 34 private planes in the annual Ruth Chatterton air derby buzz in from Cleveland led by San Francisco's rich Sportsman Frank Spreckels, who won by an elaborate score based on flying efficiency, not speed. The cross-country junkets over, the Races settled into the usual four-day shindig of stunting, formation flying "pylon polishing" before the final grand event-the Thompson Trophy Race, No. 1 U. S. closed-course speed test...
...mile sprint around a ten-mile triangle, it is the only rival in popularity to the Bendix Race, which it last week paralleled in results almost completely. With the best U. S. pilots out because of their accidents in the Bendix, the Thompson was left to a parcel of minor U. S. racers, one foreign ace-France's huge, 31-year-old Michel Detroyat. Close friend of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, whom he was instrumental in rescuing from Le Bourget crowds after the New York-Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice...