Word: beechcraft
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...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's East-West record set by Laura Ingalls last year (TIME, July 15, 1935). Miss Ingalls, ahead...