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The Gordon Bennett Aviation Trophy is an international airplane racing trophy that was awarded by James Gordon Bennett Jr., the American owner and publisher of the New York Herald newspaper. The trophy is one of three Gordon Bennett awards: Bennett was also the sponsor of an automobile race and a ballooning competition .
The original Bendix Trophy on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.. 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.
Mackay Trophy: United States Air Force: Most meritorious flight of the year [19] France: Michelin Cup: Michelin: Various long-distance flight competition [20] [21] [22] United States: Orteig Prize: Raymond Orteig: First Allied aviator(s) to fly non-stop from New York City to Paris or vice versa [23] United States: Richard C. du Pont Memorial ...
The Lewin B. Barringer Memorial Trophy was established by the will of Lewin Barringer in 1948. The original rules specified that the trophy would be awarded for the longest distance soaring flight from any type of launching method other than airplane tow. The trophy would become the permanent property of any pilot who won it three times in ...
The original trophy, awarded from 1948 to 2009. The Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy was established by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) in 1948 after a trust fund was created in 1936 by Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston, a former president of the NAA. It is awarded to a living American for "significant public service of enduring value to ...
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The Collier Trophy is the most coveted of all. Robert J. Collier, publisher of Collier's Weekly magazine, was an air sports pioneer and president of the Aero Club of America. [1] In 1910, he commissioned Baltimore sculptor Ernest Wise Keyser to make the 525-pound (238 kg) Aero Club of America Trophy.
Photographer Platon (left) and President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-lago on Nov. 25 Credit - Mike Foley. W e are nearing a century of Person of the Year, the franchise TIME’s editors launched ...