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National Air Tour (Ford Reliability Trophy). From Detroit last week started a great caravan of 20 competing planes plus ten press and service planes. They constituted the fifth annual national air tour and were competing for the Edsel Ford Reliability Trophy and $16,000 in prizes. During 16 days they were to stop at 32 Canadian and U. S. cities.
* In the first (1906) race Frank P. Lahm, also an American, covered 402 miles. Longest race distance was France's Maurice Bienaime's 1,354 miles in 1912.