The Bendix Trophy is a U.S. aeronautical racing trophy. The transcontinental, point-to-point race, sponsored by industrialist Vincent Bendix founder of Bendix Corporation, began in 1931 as part of the National Air Races. Initial prize money for the winners was $15,000. The last Bendix Trophy Race was flown in 1962.
The original Bendix Trophy on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Air racing is a type of motorsport that involves airplanes or other types of aircraft that compete over a fixed course, with the winner either returning the shortest time, the one to complete it with the most points, or to come closest to a previously estimated time.
T-6 Gold Start passing the finish pylon at the 2014 Reno Air Races
Louis Paulhan in a Farman III at the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field
Jimmy Doolittle on his Curtiss R3C-2 Racer, the plane in which he won the 1925 Schneider Trophy Race
Start formation Sport Class 2014 Reno Air Races