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<p>The <b>Bendix Trophy</b> is a U.S. <a href="Air_racing" title="Air racing">aeronautical racing</a> trophy. The transcontinental, point-to-point race, sponsored by industrialist <a href="Vincent_Hugo_Bendix" title="Vincent Hugo Bendix">Vincent Bendix</a> founder of <a href="Bendix_Corporation" title="Bendix Corporation">Bendix Corporation</a>, began in 1931 as part of the <a href="National_Air_Races" title="National Air Races">National Air Races</a>. Initial prize money for the winners was $15,000. The last Bendix Trophy Race was flown in 1962.

</p><p>The trophy was brought back in 1998 by <a href="AlliedSignal" title="AlliedSignal">AlliedSignal</a>, the then-owner of the Bendix <a href="Brand" title="Brand">brand name</a> (which later merged with <a href="Honeywell" title="Honeywell">Honeywell</a>), to "recognize contributions to aerospace safety by individuals or institutions through innovation in advanced safety equipment and equipment utilization."

</p><p>The current awards of the <i>Honeywell Bendix Trophy for Aviation Safety</i> includes a scale reproduction of the original Bendix Trophy design and a citation.

</p>

<p>The purpose was to interest engineers in building faster, more reliable, and durable aircraft. Bendix competitors flew from <a href="Burbank%2C_California" title="Burbank, California">Burbank, California</a>, to <a href="Cleveland%2C_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland, Ohio">Cleveland, Ohio</a>, except for two years when the contest began in New York and ended in Los Angeles.

</p><p>Famous competitors for the trophy included <a href="Jimmy_Doolittle" title="Jimmy Doolittle">Jimmy Doolittle</a>, who won the first race, and several women. <a href="Amelia_Earhart" title="Amelia Earhart">Amelia Earhart</a> and <a href="Ruth_Rowland_Nichols" title="Ruth Rowland Nichols">Ruth Rowland Nichols</a> were the first women pilots to enter the Bendix, taking fifth and sixth places, respectively, in 1933. In 1936, <a href="Louise_Thaden" title="Louise Thaden">Louise Thaden</a> and her copilot <a href="Blanche_Noyes" title="Blanche Noyes">Blanche Noyes</a> won the race. <a href="Laura_Ingalls_(aviator)" title="Laura Ingalls (aviator)">Laura Ingalls</a> finished second. In 1938, <a href="Jacqueline_Cochran" title="Jacqueline Cochran">Jacqueline Cochran</a>, arguably the greatest female aviator of all time, took home the trophy. <a href="Paul_Mantz" title="Paul Mantz">Paul Mantz</a> was the only pilot to ever win the Bendix three consecutive years, from 1946 through 1948.

</p><p>The race was not run during <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. Postwar winners were frequently military veterans from the <a href="United_States_Army_Air_Forces" title="United States Army Air Forces">United States Army Air Forces</a>: the 1956 winner, <a href="Manuel_J._Fernandez" title="Manuel J. Fernandez">Capt. Manuel Fernandez Jr.</a>, was the third-ranking Korean War USAF ace. By the 1960s, American interest in air racing declined. This was probably due to an increased focus on <a href="Space_Race" title="Space Race">the space race</a> during this time. Lt. <a href="Richard_F._Gordon_Jr." title="Richard F. Gordon Jr.">Richard F. Gordon Jr.</a>, the winner in 1961, went on to become an <a href="Astronaut" title="Astronaut">astronaut</a> with <a href="NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mister_Mulligan"><i>Mister Mulligan</i></h2></div>

<p><i>Mister Mulligan</i> (<a href="Howard_DGA-6" title="Howard DGA-6">Howard DGA-6</a>), commissioned and flown by Ben Howard in the 1935 race, was the 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, who went on to become an engineer for the <a href="Grumman_Aircraft_Engineering_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation">Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation</a>. <i>Mister Mulligan</i> was designed to fly the entire length of the race nonstop and at high altitude. Neither had ever been done before. Howard and Israel, who co-piloted, won the trophy. Their victory changed how long-distance airplanes were designed.

</p><p>The second-place plane in the 1935 race was actually a faster airplane but had to make refueling stops, which cost enough time to prevent <a href="Roscoe_Turner" title="Roscoe Turner">Roscoe Turner</a> from winning the race. The time difference was only 23.5 seconds between first and second place. The winning difference in speed, over the total distance was less than 0.2 mph (0.32 km/h). <i>Mister Mulligan</i> achieved 238.70 mph (384.15 km/h), compared to Roscoe Turner's 238.52 mph (383.86 km/h).

</p><p><i>Mister Mulligan</i> not only won the Bendix Trophy but also the <a href="Thompson_Trophy" title="Thompson Trophy">Thompson Trophy</a>, when flown by Harold Neumann in 1935. Instead of a cross-country distance race, the Thompson was a closed-circuit race around pylons, a type of race for which it was not particularly well suited. Entered again in the Bendix in 1936, the <i>Mister Mulligan</i> was completely destroyed when the craft lost one of the propeller blades, resulting in a forced landing, 40 miles (64 km) north of <a href="Crownpoint%2C_New_Mexico" title="Crownpoint, New Mexico">Crownpoint, New Mexico</a>; this crash landing almost killed Howard and his co-pilot wife, Maxine.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Winners">Winners</h2></div>

<td colspan="8" style="background:#dcdcdc;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:125%;">Propeller Class</span></b>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Year

</th>

<th>Start location

</th>

<th>End location

</th>

<th>Pilot

</th>

<th>Plane

</th>

<th>Speed<br>(MPH)

</th>

<th>Time<br>(H:M:S)

</th>

<th>Prize

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th>1931

</th>

<td><a href="Burbank%2C_California" title="Burbank, California">Burbank</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Cleveland%2C_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland, Ohio">Cleveland</a>

</td>

<td>Maj. <a href="James_Harold_Doolittle" class="mw-redirect" title="James Harold Doolittle">James H. Doolittle</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Laird_Super_Solution" title="Laird Super Solution">Super Solution</a>

</td>

<td>223.06

</td>

<td>09:10:21.0

</td>

<td>$7,500

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1932

</th>

<td>Burbank

</td>

<td><a href="Cleveland%2C_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland, Ohio">Cleveland</a>

</td>

<td>Capt. Jasper H. Haizlip

</td>

</td>

<td>245.00

</td>

<td>08:19:45.0

</td>

<td>$8,750

</td></tr>

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<th>1933

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Los_Angeles%2C_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles, California">Los Angeles</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Roscoe_Turner" title="Roscoe Turner">Roscoe Turner</a>

</td>

<td>WW-44

</td>

<td>214.78

</td>

<td>11:30:00.0

</td>

<td>$4,050

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1934

</th>

<td>Burbank

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td><a href="Doug_Davis_(aviator)" title="Doug Davis (aviator)">Doug Davis</a>

</td>

<td>WW-44

</td>

<td>216.24

</td>

<td>09:26:41.0

</td>

<td>$4,500

</td></tr>

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<th>1935

</th>

<td>Burbank

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td><a href="Benjamin_(Ben)_Howard" class="mw-redirect" title="Benjamin (Ben) Howard">Ben Howard</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>238.70

</td>

<td>08:33:16.3

</td>

<td>$4,500

</td></tr>

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<th>1936

</th>

<td>New York

</td>

<td>Los Angeles

</td>

<td><a href="Louise_Thaden" title="Louise Thaden">Louise Thaden</a><br><a href="Blanche_Noyes" title="Blanche Noyes">Blanche Noyes</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>165.35

</td>

<td>14:55:01.0

</td>

<td>$4,500

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1937

</th>

<td>Los Angeles

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td>Frank W. Fuller Jr.

</td>

</td>

<td>258.20

</td>

<td>07:54:26.3

</td>

<td>$9,000

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1938

</th>

<td>Los Angeles

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td><a href="Jacqueline_Cochran" title="Jacqueline Cochran">Jacqueline Cochran</a>

</td>

<td>SEV-2S

</td>

<td>249.11

</td>

<td>08:10:31.4

</td>

<td>$9,000

</td></tr>

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<th>1939

</th>

<td>Los Angeles

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td>Frank W. Fuller Jr.

</td>

<td>SEV-2S

</td>

<td>282.10

</td>

<td>07:14:19.0

</td>

<td>$9,000

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1940

</th>

<td colspan="7" rowspan="6" style="background:#f0fff0;" align="center"><i><b>No races during this period due to <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></b></i>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1941

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th>1942

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th>1943

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th>1944

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th>1945

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th>1946

</th>

<td>Los Angeles

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td><a href="Paul_Mantz" title="Paul Mantz">Paul Mantz</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>435.50

</td>

<td>04:43:14.0

</td>

<td>$10,000

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1947

</th>

<td>Los Angeles

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td>Paul Mantz

</td>

<td>P-51

</td>

<td>460.42

</td>

<td>04:26:57.4

</td>

<td>$10,000

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1948

</th>

<td>Los Angeles

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td>Paul Mantz

</td>

<td>P-51

</td>

<td>447.98

</td>

<td>04:33:48.7

</td>

<td>$10,000

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1949

</th>

<td><a href="Edwards_Air_Force_Base" title="Edwards Air Force Base">Rosamond Dry Lake</a>

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td>Joe DeBona (Flying for Jimmy Stewart)

</td>

</td>

<td>470.14

</td>

<td>04:16:17.5

</td>

<td>$10,000

</td></tr>

<tr>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td colspan="8" style="background:#dcdcdc;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:125%;">Jet Class</span></b>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Year

</th>

<th>Start location

</th>

<th>End location

</th>

<th>Pilot

</th>

<th>Plane

</th>

<th>Speed<br>(MPH)

</th>

<th>Time<br>(H:M:S)

</th>

<th>Prize

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th>1946

</th>

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td>Leon W. Gray

</td>

</td>

<td>494.78

</td>

<td>04:08:00.0

</td>

<td> 

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1947

</th>

<td>

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td>Leon W. Gray

</td>

<td>F/P-80A

</td>

<td>507.26

</td>

<td>04:02:00.0

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1948

</th>

<td>

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td>Ens. F. E. Brown

</td>

</td>

<td>489.53

</td>

<td>04:11:00.0

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1949

</th>

<td>

</td>

<td>Cleveland

</td>

<td>Vernon A. Ford

</td>

</td>

<td>529.61

</td>

<td>03:45:51.0

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1950

</th>

<td colspan="7" style="background:#f0fff0;" align="center"><i><b>No race this year due to <a href="Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a></b></i>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1951

</th>

<td><a href="Edwards_Air_Force_Base" title="Edwards Air Force Base">Muroc Field</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Detroit%2C_Michigan" class="mw-redirect" title="Detroit, Michigan">Detroit</a>

</td>

<td>Col. <a href="Keith_K._Compton" title="Keith K. Compton">Keith K. Compton</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>553.76

</td>

<td>03:27:00.0

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1952

</th>

<td colspan="7" style="background:#f0fff0;" align="center"><i><b>No race this year due to <a href="Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a></b></i>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1953

</th>

<td>Muroc Field

</td>

<td><a href="Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base" title="Wright-Patterson Air Force Base">Wright-Patterson Air Force Base</a>

</td>

<td>Maj. <a href="William_T._Whisner_Jr." title="William T. Whisner Jr.">William T. Whisner Jr.</a>

</td>

<td>F-86F

</td>

<td>603.55

</td>

<td>03:05:25.0

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1954

</th>

<td><a href="Edwards_Air_Force_Base" title="Edwards Air Force Base">Edwards Air Force Base</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Dayton%2C_Ohio" title="Dayton, Ohio">Dayton</a>

</td>

<td>Capt. Edward W. Kenny

</td>

</td>

<td>616.21

</td>

<td>03:01:56.0

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1955

</th>

<td><a href="Victorville%2C_California" title="Victorville, California">Victorville</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Philadelphia%2C_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Philadelphia</a>

</td>

<td>Col. <a href="Carlos_Talbott" title="Carlos Talbott">Carlos Talbott</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>610.726

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1956

</th>

<td><a href="George_Air_Force_Base" title="George Air Force Base">George Air Force Base</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Tinker_Air_Force_Base" title="Tinker Air Force Base">Tinker Air Force Base</a>

</td>

<td>Capt. <a href="Manuel_J._%22Pete%22_Fernandez" class="mw-redirect" title="Manuel J. "Pete" Fernandez">Manuel Fernandez Jr.</a>

</td>

<td>F-100C

</td>

<td>666.66

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1957

</th>

<td><a href="Chicago%2C_Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago, Illinois">Chicago</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Andrews_Air_Force_Base" title="Andrews Air Force Base">Andrews Air Force Base</a>

</td>

<td>Capt. Kenneth Chandler

</td>

</td>

<td>679.00

</td>

<td>02:54:45.0

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1958

</th>

<td colspan="7" rowspan="3" style="background:#f0fff0;" align="center"><i><b>No award these years</b></i>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1959

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th>1960

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th>1961

</th>

<td>Los Angeles

</td>

<td>New York

</td>

<td>Lt. <a href="Richard_F._Gordon_Jr." title="Richard F. Gordon Jr.">Richard F. Gordon Jr.</a><br>Lt. Bobbie R. Young

</td>

</td>

<td>869.74

</td>

<td>02:47:00.0

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1962

</th>

<td>Los Angeles

</td>

<td>New York

</td>

<td>Capt. Robert G. Sowers<br>Capt. Robert MacDonald<br>Capt. John T. Walton

</td>

</td>

<td>1,214.17

</td>

<td>02:00:56.8

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

</tbody></table>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honeywell_Bendix_trophy_for_Aviation_Safety_recipients">Honeywell Bendix trophy for Aviation Safety recipients</h2></div>

<th>Year

</th>

<th>Recipient

</th>

<th>Company

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th>1998

</th>

<td>Capt. David A. Fleming<br>Capt. Edward D. Mendenhall<br>Capt. <a href="Edmond_L._Soliday" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmond L. Soliday">Edmond L. Soliday</a>

</td>

<td><a href="British_Airways" title="British Airways">British Airways</a><br><a href="Gulfstream_Aerospace" title="Gulfstream Aerospace">Gulfstream Aircraft</a><br><a href="United_Airlines" title="United Airlines">United Airlines</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>1999

</th>

<td>Leonard M. Greene

</td>

<td>Safe Flight Instrument Corp.

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>2000

</th>

<td>James F. Bothwell

</td>

<td>STAT Medevac

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>2001

</th>

<td colspan="2" align="center" style="background:#f0fff0;"><i><b>No award this year</b></i>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>2002

</th>

<td> 

</td>

<td>Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>2003

</th>

<td>Peter F. Sheppard

</td>

<td>UK <a href="Air_Accidents_Investigation_Branch" title="Air Accidents Investigation Branch">Air Accidents Investigation Branch</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>2004

</th>

<td> 

</td>

<td><a href="Dassault_Aviation" title="Dassault Aviation">Dassault Aviation</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>2005

</th>

<td>Earl F. Weener, Ph.D.

</td>

<td> 

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>2006

</th>

<td colspan="2" align="center" style="background:#f0fff0;"><i><b>No award this year</b></i>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>2007

</th>

<td> 

</td>

<td>Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>2008

</th>

<td> 

</td>

<td>The Mode S Radar Tools Project, U.K. National Air Traffic Services

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>2011

</th>

<td> 

</td>

<td>National Air Transport System (NATS) and Airbox Aerospace <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://flightsafety.org/media-center/press-releases/bendix-trophy-2011-to-AWARE-Team">[1]</a>

</td></tr>

</tbody></table>

</div>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_aviation_awards" title="List of aviation awards">List of aviation awards</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051128072503/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/trophies/EX10.htm">"The Major Trophy Races of the Golden Age of Air Racing"</a> by David H. Onkst, <i>US Centennial of Flight Commission</i>, retrieved January 6, 2006</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.airracinghistory.freeola.com/Between%20the%20wars(2).htm">"The Bendix Trophy"</a>, <i>Air Racing History</i>, retrieved January 6, 2006</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060211160117/http://www.aeromuseum.org/Articles/July04/QuestForSpeed.htm">"The Quest for Speed Bendix Air Races 1931 to 1949"</a> From Air Trails, September 1950</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060902015256/http://2k.si.edu/2ksearch/Low_Artifacts.asp?ObjectData_Action=Find('ID','d517')">Artifacts – Bendix Trophy</a> Smithsonian Institution Online Exhibit</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1954.html">1954 USAF Serial Numbers entry number 2096</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060103235254/http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/gordon.htm">Astronaut Bio: Richard F. Gordon Jr., (Captain, USN, Ret.)</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060614140428/http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/aviators/usaf.htm">United States Air Force Aviation AeroWeb History</a></li>

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