MR. MULLIGAN DGA-6 RACING QUALITY DESKTOP MODEL AIRPLANE DISPLAY
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UP FOR AUCTION: MR. MULLIGAN DGA-6 RACING QUALITY DESKTOP MODEL AIRPLANE DISPLAY with BLACK WOODEN DISPLAY & METAL NAME TAG. The original 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. Mister Mulligan was designed to fly the entire length of the race nonstop and at high altitude. Neither had ever been done before. Mister Mulligan won the trophy, and thus changed the way in which long distance airplanes were designed. The Bendix Trophy was a cross-country race from the west coast to the site of the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, and typically was the starting event of the week-long aviation festival. The Thompson Trophy was awarded to the winner of the unlimited division in close-course pylon racing at the National Air Races. The sole original DGA-6 was constructed in 1934 in the defunct factory of the American Eagle-Lincoln Aircraft based at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City Mo. It featured a steel tube fuselage with a plywood-skinned wing. Howard freely admitted he was inspired by "seeing the Monocoupe from the wrong end" during air races; The DGA-6 can thus be
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