Word: bendix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardy enthusiasts who braved a Cleveland drizzle was Mister Mulligan, a white, high-wing monoplane designed, owned and flown by meticulous Benjamin Odell ("Benny"') Howard. Jumping from his plane, Pilot Howard stilled congratulations with: "I haven't won yet." He was right. Hard-driving Colonel Turner, Bendix winner in 1933, had started almost two hours later, was hot on his heels, had an excellent chance of beating Mister Mulligan's time...
...everyone takes off under these conditions, someone will get killed," snorted Colonel Roscoe Turner, stamping about in a heavy Los Angeles fog one night last week. With eight other pilots, he was awaiting the start of the dangerous Bendix Trophy Race across the nation to Cleveland in the opening event of the 15th annual National Air Races. Presently the fog began to lift, allowed the nine racers to take off in the dark. Last to roar down the field, just as dawn broke, was Pilot Cecil A. Allen, 33, alone in a tiny, fat, Gee Bee monoplane, immensely powerful...
...When one-eyed Pilot Post had piled up 700 hours air time, the Department of Commerce gave him a physical waiver and a license. In 1930 Oilman Hall bought a new Lockheed Vega also called Winnie Mae. In that ship Post quickly got national attention by winning the 1930 Bendix Trophy Race, scooting from Los Angeles to Chicago non-stop in 9 hr. 9 min. With laconic Australian Harold Gatty as navigator, Wiley Post made his first round-the-world flight in 1931 in 8 days 15 hr. 51 min. Two years later, embittered over his failure to get rich...
...Moscow last week, as Dictator Stalin considered President Roosevelt's reputed offer, were aggressive President Vincent Bendix of Bendix Corp. (airplane equipment, automobile starters, brakes); General Motors Vice President T. W. Tinkham; White Motor Truck Vice President Colonel Everett Gardner; and representatives of United Aircraft & Transport Corp., ace builders of battle planes. Though Washington spoke of Red orders for U.S. heavy industry, the supersalesmen actually in Moscow last week all seemed to offer equipment to motorize the Red Army against Japan...
Last year he won the Bendix Trophy-New York to Los Angeles- in 11 hr. 30 min., topped that transcontinental record with another in the opposite direction, in 10 hr. 4 min. Last month he beat that record by two minutes, flew back to Cleveland to win the Thompson Trophy, World's No. 1 closed-course race (100 mi. at 248 m.p.h.). A temperamental prima donna on the ground. Turner is a cold, nerveless machine...