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The Howard DGA-6 was a pioneer racing plane, nicknamed "Mister Mulligan". It 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 later became an engineer for the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation.
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. [1] [2]
The winning difference in speed, over the total distance was less than 0.2 mph (0.32 km/h). Mister Mulligan achieved 238.70 mph (384.15 km/h), compared to Roscoe Turner's 238.52 mph (383.86 km/h). Mister Mulligan not only won the Bendix Trophy but also the Thompson Trophy, when flown by Harold Neumann in 1935. Instead of a cross-country ...
Data from Sport Aviation General characteristics Capacity: 1 Length: 17 ft (5.2 m) Wingspan: 20 ft 1 in (6.12 m) Wing area: 67 sq ft (6.2 m 2) Airfoil: NACA M6 Empty weight: 919 lb (417 kg) Gross weight: 1,194 lb (542 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Menasco Buccaneer 485 cubic inch inline, 200 hp (150 kW) Performance Maximum speed: 209 kn (241 mph, 388 km/h) Cruise speed: 152 kn (175 mph, 282 km/h ...
2 built for the Challenge International de Tourisme 1934: Albatros L 69: Germany: 1925: Operational: 4 built, 2 as the L 69a. Avro 539: UK: 1919: Operational: Schneider Trophy [1] Bäumer Sausewind: Germany: 1925: Operational: Deutsche Rundflug 1925 [citation needed] Bell P-39 Airacobra: US: 1938: Bendix Trophy [citation needed] Bell P-63 ...
Bendix Trophy: Bendix Corporation: Transcontinental, point-to-point race [2] [3] France: Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe: Aéro-Club de France: Speed trial for powered aircraft over a distance of 200 kilometres, to be flown as an outward leg of 100 km followed by a return to the starting point [4] [5] United Kingdom: Daily Mail aviation prizes ...
Thompson Products (a predecessor to TRW) decided to sponsor a trophy to be awarded for the next ten years for unlimited class racing (though a stipulation was eventually added excluding women pilots). The trophy was designed by Walter Sinz [1] and is now at Air and Space Museum. Sinz also made a pair of 10-foot-tall (3.0 m) models of the trophy ...
The Curtiss R3C is an American racing aircraft built in landplane and floatplane form. It was a single-seat biplane built by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company.. The R3C-1 [1] was the landplane version and Cyrus Bettis won the Pulitzer Trophy Race in one on 12 October 1925 with a speed of 248.9 mph (400.6 km/h).