Word: bendix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were other hair-raising occurrences at the 17th annual National Air Races at Cleveland last week, but more newsworthy and of more practical value to aviation were two great races-the one named after Manufacturer Vincent Bendix, a transcontinental race, and the one named for Manufacturer Charles E. Thompson, a closed-course race around pylons at the air meet grounds...
...Bendix, gaudy, onetime Winner Roscoe Turner was eliminated before the start when his ship caught fire on the ground at Los Angeles. For a time the lead was held by Jacqueline Cochran Odlum, wife of investment trust Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum, only woman entered. She reached Cleveland in third place, won $3,000 plus $2,500 offered to the first woman to finish. The $5,000 second prize went to Earl Ortman of Los Angeles, who nearly lost consciousness for lack of oxygen when he mounted to 22,000 ft. over Kansas to avoid a storm. Winner was wealthy Sportsman...
Flying a stripped-down, hump-backed Seversky pursuit plane powered by a Twin Wasp Jr. engine, Fuller was first to reach Cleveland, continued on non-stop to Bendix, N. J., the famed old airport of Teterboro where Vincent Bendix now has headquarters. For this Pilot Fuller won $13,000. His cross-country time was 9 hr. 44 min. 43 sec., fastest in Bendix history but below the 7 hr. 28 min. 25 sec. record held by wealthy Sportsman Howard Hughes. Deafened and groggy, Winner Fuller called for a bottle of soda pop, repaired to a Coney Island hotel. A thick...
...With Fokker and his plant gone, Teterboro sank into obscurity and neglect. Lately it has had nothing to boast but its name. Last week even that went. By unanimous vote of 25 of its 26 registered voters (one did not show up), Teterboro's name was changed to Bendix in honor of the man who now proposes to restore it to its oldtime fame...
...Vincent Bendix has risen from a Postal Telegraph messenger to head the $31,000,000 Bendix Aviation Corp., which makes at least one part of every U. S. automobile (starters, four-wheel brakes, air brakes, carburetors, air horns), also makes precision instruments of many kinds for airplanes. Last January when the epidemic of airplane crashes focused attention on radio beams, direction finders, loop antennae, etc., etc. (TIME, Jan. 25), Vincent Bendix decided to capitalize on it by amalgamating his radio interests into Bendix Radio Corp., biggest concern of its kind in the world. He bought 100 acres at Teterboro...