1 Henri Farman rounds pylon Reims France 1909 Although very first air race standards already set pylon design pylon judgingand low flyingl event ended thousands people thrilled air racing Credit Smithsonian Institution began 1909 75 years multitude planes raced have become beloved subjects modeling Especially early days racing provided impetus designing building more-efficient airplanes Part 1 covers beginning WW II SEVENTY-FIVE years ago August 1909 something spectacular hap pened Reims France took everyones mind off world-famous cathedral nearby Champagne vineyards ast few days airplaneslots themengaging orgy record setEDon Berliner ting pylon racing Nothing remotely like seen before anywhere fact hardly tens thousands spec tators including princes presidents seen single airplane propelling itself through air As several flying once almost beyond imagination After Euro pean aviation community still over shock having seen Wilbur Wright fly routinely LeMans year before brave inven tors come close real flight Left The splendid grandstands Reims first air race T-shirts showing souped-up Mustangs yet vogue Credit Smithsonian Institution Right Mr Mulligan really big Monocoupe won 1936 Bendix Thompson Races despite its size Credit Truman Weaver Aiiaijt QR4 5 Left Lester Maitland Curtiss R-6 2nd 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race Right Johnny Livingston clipped-wing Monocoupe tough beat races limited-displacement engines Airplanes era great modeling Both Truman Weaver collection covered grandstands place Reims-Champagne huge scoreboard erected checkered py ions set corners 5km 31 mL rectangular course park ing lot crammed magnificent old heaps would turn modern tique car buff chartreuse envy Everything other words ready worlds first air race Except first mat ter mud dealt everywhere thanks hours heavy rain Cars people squished through ankle-deep slime werent hiding yet another down pour come out droves stayedwaiting something happen something sup posed airplanes racing around aerial racetrack first time history afternoon Saturday August 22 particularly heavy storm hit blew through leaving air clear calm time trials select French team coming Gordon Bennett Trophy Race short order seven airplanes aloft what journalist called wonderful un precedented spectacle crowd awed sight airplanes climbing high above field altitude records rattling way around race course speed tests struggling back forth set dur ation distance marks new strange yet working flying machine little rumor minds people suddenly become something could seen heard smelled end historic air meet thousands people become famil iar sight airplanes charging around pylon-marked course Air rac ing thus born plains Beth eny die cast threequarters century marvelous flying premiere event Reims 1909 James Gordon Bennett Trophy presented publishing baron saw air racing sport could Fl LEFT WING UNDER SIDE 0 5 -IABCD 3METER H 1 0r EE ABC UI NOSE DETAIL rdI Aviation DEPERDUSSIN 1913 Left Ben Howards Mike series highly successful racers won its share trophies Cleveland smaller meets Right Jimmy Wedell great Wedell-Williams racers Cleveland wins early 30s Both Truman Weaver boost aviation l newspapers winner first big race American field pioneer builder Glenn Curtiss flying Reims Racer flew two laps course 15 mm 506 sec average blazing 471 mph Next fastest Louis Bleriot 468 mph may have very fast certainly close thats what makes kind racing fun Gordon Bennett quickly became first air racings classic trophies 1912 inspiring design real racing planes first attract international attention Deperdussins France 1913 Dep trim monoplane bullet-shaped nose enclosing 160-hp Gnome rotary engine Maurice Prevost flew win years race world record speed 127 mph though American won first series thus second race held US French domi nated speed flying prior World War including inaugural Schneider Trophy Race Monaco 1913 Pre yost won float-equipped Deperdussin final prewar Schneider went Briton Howard Pixton flew Sopwith Tabloid 86 mph World War ended speed flying racing picked up left off Using considerable technical knowledge gained during war sudden increase speed first postwar Gordon Bennet Race won French speed pilot Sadi Lecointe flying Nieuport-Delage 29V better 168 mph suddenly end Gordon Bennett Trophy Race airplanes French won three times row trophy keep Schneider Races continued slowly gained international stature 1919 race bust because persis / if1 7 II IAB / PH NOSE DETAIL 0 05 I. 0 GLOSTER IB 1927 Aaric 1 iR4 7 10rE E T 123METER tent fog 1920 race single finisher Luigi Bologna Ital ian Savoja S12 flying boat 106 mph 1921 almost same thing hap pened Giovanni de Briganti pilot complete course Macchi M7 118mph America slow awaken po tential airplane after having vented things started move 1920s dawned Joseph Pulitzer another newspaper publisher offered trophy name open types air planes got lot attention triggered some very clever work men ideas about make air planes go faster first Pulitzer Race Mitchell Field Long Island 1920 drew huge field tired military airplanes winner Army Capt Corliss Mosely flew Verville-Packard first wonderful string military racers 157 mph wasnt quite up what Europeans doing Yanks coming 1921 Pulitzer Race entry list down few significant airplanes others clearly out conten- tion Winning flashy Bert Acosta Navy Curtiss CR-l its big V-12 en gine screaming lapped course near Omaha NE better 176 mph sudden America dis covered streamlining value great gobs cubic inches paying off speed 1922 Pulitzer Race become worlds fastest Russell Maughan US Army won classy Cur tiss R-6 better 205 mph Schneider Race still attracting modified standard flying boats went Henry Biard England Supermarine Sea Lion II just 145 mph France second series races Coupe Deutsch pitted some highly impressive European racers against other long-course race 1921 Georges Kirsch won 172 mph Nieuport-Delage sesquiplane 1922 Fernand Lasne flew similar air plane victory 180 mph good racing attracted little atten tion outside Europe thing like what would happen third Coupe Deutsch came upon scene decade later Pulitzer Trophy Race remained supreme 1923 great Al Williams winning Curtiss R2C-l 244 mph around pylon coursefaster anyone else yet flown straight line Curtiss airframes en gines top world same year David Rittenhouse pulled off Americas first Schneider Race win Curtiss CR-3 177 mph easily outrun ning everyone another CR-3 pilot 1924 Pulitzer disappoint mentfor very first time No new _____F ABCDE34 IIII II IIIII II GROSVENOR HousR 1111 EF 00 ri 6 IIIH ___II~ ---rA IJ ----0123METER IIIII DH88 COMET _______________ ______LI510FEETGROSVENOR HOUSE~ RLA%rJl Avitinn Winner 1934 MacRobertson Racea long 11333 miles London Melbourne deHaviHand deH88 Comet Grosvenor House Credit Truman Weaver collection airplanes entered some best didnt perform Burt Skeelh Cur tiss R-6 came apart during diving start leaving just three airplanes race Cyrus Bettis won Verville Sprerry R-3 racer 216 mph followed Brookley R-6 215 mph Things began pick up 1925 Pulitzer went Bettis Curtiss R3C-l 249 mph airplane fit ted set floats Schneider Race Jimmy Doolittle used win Baltimore MD 233 mph despite tremendous technical know ledge favorable publicity Army Navy gained Curtiss Racers program ended fear pilot would lost spotlight addition serious concern limit hu man endurance being approached airplanes neared 300 mph Pulitzer Race get ting lions share attention gradually become part Na tional Air Races event composed races different categories airplanes would continue long after Pulitzer become history until some 'name' trophy races created replace Pulitzer Nationals got limited attention Schneider Race other hand grew more prestigious nations pouring huge amounts money drive more speed would give more brag about 1926 Schneid er Hampton Roads VA first important win Italians Mario de Bernardi whipped around 50-km course Macchi M39 looked lot like monoplane Curtiss record 246 mph race run before tens thousands peo ple its hard keep winning formula secret 1927 Schneider Race saw British pick up Americans Italians left off producing first startling series Supermarine Racers Sidney Webster won year type S5 282 mphfaster World Speed Record held French landplane year 1928 quiet except Mario de Bernardis coup Macchi M52R seaplane racer became first human travel over 300 mph averaged 319 mph series sprints near Venice Italy sea plane achieve such speed landplanes couldnt credit sthn ulation Schneider Trophy lesser need compromise sea plane design between takeoff perform ance top speed big year fdr American air racing 1929 starting first All-Amer ican Air Races Miami mov ing National Air Races held Cleveland first time latter highlighted race 000 I AB C 4--. 0 05lOEET 0 \fI7XV&X I I 12 -- CURTISS R3C1 Thompson Cup pitting civilians against military long domi nated sport civilians Doug Davis won over GIs Travel I__________________________ E __ // 00 CAUDRON CA6O 4 rr 05 Auaust 1984 59 Left Being trundled starting line Roscoe Turners Meteor won 1938 1939 Thompson Trophy Races Credit Tru man Weaver collection Right Miles Hawk Speed Six combines sportiness comfort good flying qualities best British handicap racers among several relatively low-powered ones flown Kings Cup Thirties Credit MP Marsh collection Air Mystery racer enthusiasm backyard designers builders sparked revolution Thompson Cup became Thompson Trophy world air racing would never same end year British re inforced control over Schneid er Race Henry Waghorn flew Supermarine S6A victory 329 mph leaving own teammates far behind second disappoint ing time Al Williams tried get self-financed racer ready failed 1930 National Air Races held Chicago highlighted Speed Holmans winning Thompson Trophy Race Laird Solution 202 mph followed closely Jimmy Haizlip Travel Air 200 mph I— FABC0 NX GOON III H 0METER123 I I OFEET510 ART CHESTERS GOON crowds grew rapidly did purses soon aviations great showcase par Kentucky Derby Indianapolis 500 start air racings Golden Age 1931 National Air Races moved back Cleveland saw introduction another major event Bendix Transcontinental Derby free-for-all Los Angeles Cleve land winner Jimmy Doolittle flew new Laird Super Solution biplane 2000 miles 223 mph out supposedly-vital elec tronic aids know today 1931 Thompson Race went Lowell Bayles airplane im mediately became symobol era Gee Bee speed 236 enough edge Jimmy Wedellin No 44 Wedell-Williams 228 mph speeds well below Schneider Race seaplanes racers Cleveland homebuilts no government money behind few days after Cleveland came final race long Schneider series John Boothman winning unchal lenged 340 mph ultimate Supermarine S6B trophy became permanent possession Great Britain few days later George Stainforth used same airplane break 400 mph barrier averaged 407 mph over 3km straight course Schneider out picture spotlight shone Cleveland Jim Haizllp won 1932 Bendix 245 mph Wedell-Williams sweep event Doolittle firmed up claim air racing immortality win ning Thompson Gee Bee Super Sportster 253 mph speed record stood four years led three Wedells across finish linethe highlight Gee Bees spectacularbut-checkered career quiet European racing scene came back life 1933 yet another series races Coupe Deutsch As before French dominated time did some exciting efficient airplanes ever raced first Coupe won radial-engined Potez racer Continued page 147 60 Model Aviation EBERLES IS OUR HEADQUARTERS FOR HELJCOPTERSEBLL COMPLETE Liii OF HELICOPTERS PARTS & ACCESSORIES SW___ O COMPETiTOR PR Fully aerobatic cole new added bearings. 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original 64 entries 20 actually started grand winner mag nificent red deHavilland Comet flown Campbell-Black Scott its two straight-six Gypsy engines singing almost 71 hours predecessor Mosquito bomber averaged 159 mph win both Speed Handicap Di visions second Douglas DC-2 third Speed contest Boeing 247 flown Roscoe Turner Starting out 1935 Coupe Deutsch race France Again clean sweep Caudrons type 460s taking first three places Ray mond Delmotte winner 276 150 Model Aviation mph Yves Lacombe second 264 mph Such speed limited power ignored hotshot pilots huge crowds Cleveland would always 1935 National Air Races known Benny Howard air races fine designs won important event Ben won Bendix clean high-wing Mr Mulligan 239 mph second-fastest yet Harold Neumann took over Thompson amazed everyone winning big com fortable cross-country machine 220 mph edged Steve Wittman V-12-powered Bonzo clocked 2187 mph Neumann took control Howards little Mike won Greve Race 213 mph over Art Chester Roger Don Rae 1936 racing season didnt really get rolling until September Nationals Los Angeles Clevelands runways being paved Bendix won staggerwing Beech flown Blanche Noyes Louise Thaden slow 165 mph rules still prohibited men women racing gether around pylons no wor ried about flying across same country Thompson Greve Races shocking Bendix sleek Caudron 460s shipped over France Michael Detroyat pilot whipped Americans soundly Using small Renault engine Detroyat turned 247 mph Greve Race 20 mph faster anyone else Thompson larger Renault enabled him blow past locals win record 264 mph larger engine still less half size power Pratt & Whitney Earl Ortmans 248-mph runner-up Marcoux Bromberg racer bitter pill swallow Americans ad mit beaten own game 1936 Coupe Deutsch anti dilmax new Caudrons 450-hp V-l 2 engines ready Flying older Caudron Yves Lacomb won long race 242 mph Because great success 1934 London-Melbourne race Schle singer Race scheduled 1936 run Portsmouth England Jo hannesburg 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1 Henri Farman rounds pylon Reims France 1909 Although very first air race standards already set pylon design pylon judgingand low flyingl event ended thousands people thrilled air racing Credit Smithsonian Institution began 1909 75 years multitude planes raced have become beloved subjects modeling Especially early days racing provided impetus designing building more-efficient airplanes Part 1 covers beginning WW II SEVENTY-FIVE years ago August 1909 something spectacular hap pened Reims France took everyones mind off world-famous cathedral nearby Champagne vineyards ast few days airplaneslots themengaging orgy record setEDon Berliner ting pylon racing Nothing remotely like seen before anywhere fact hardly tens thousands spec tators including princes presidents seen single airplane propelling itself through air As several flying once almost beyond imagination After Euro pean aviation community still over shock having seen Wilbur Wright fly routinely LeMans year before brave inven tors come close real flight Left The splendid grandstands Reims first air race T-shirts showing souped-up Mustangs yet vogue Credit Smithsonian Institution Right Mr Mulligan really big Monocoupe won 1936 Bendix Thompson Races despite its size Credit Truman Weaver Aiiaijt QR4 5 Left Lester Maitland Curtiss R-6 2nd 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race Right Johnny Livingston clipped-wing Monocoupe tough beat races limited-displacement engines Airplanes era great modeling Both Truman Weaver collection covered grandstands place Reims-Champagne huge scoreboard erected checkered py ions set corners 5km 31 mL rectangular course park ing lot crammed magnificent old heaps would turn modern tique car buff chartreuse envy Everything other words ready worlds first air race Except first mat ter mud dealt everywhere thanks hours heavy rain Cars people squished through ankle-deep slime werent hiding yet another down pour come out droves stayedwaiting something happen something sup posed airplanes racing around aerial racetrack first time history afternoon Saturday August 22 particularly heavy storm hit blew through leaving air clear calm time trials select French team coming Gordon Bennett Trophy Race short order seven airplanes aloft what journalist called wonderful un precedented spectacle crowd awed sight airplanes climbing high above field altitude records rattling way around race course speed tests struggling back forth set dur ation distance marks new strange yet working flying machine little rumor minds people suddenly become something could seen heard smelled end historic air meet thousands people become famil iar sight airplanes charging around pylon-marked course Air rac ing thus born plains Beth eny die cast threequarters century marvelous flying premiere event Reims 1909 James Gordon Bennett Trophy presented publishing baron saw air racing sport could Fl LEFT WING UNDER SIDE 0 5 -IABCD 3METER H 1 0r EE ABC UI NOSE DETAIL rdI Aviation DEPERDUSSIN 1913 Left Ben Howards Mike series highly successful racers won its share trophies Cleveland smaller meets Right Jimmy Wedell great Wedell-Williams racers Cleveland wins early 30s Both Truman Weaver boost aviation l newspapers winner first big race American field pioneer builder Glenn Curtiss flying Reims Racer flew two laps course 15 mm 506 sec average blazing 471 mph Next fastest Louis Bleriot 468 mph may have very fast certainly close thats what makes kind racing fun Gordon Bennett quickly became first air racings classic trophies 1912 inspiring design real racing planes first attract international attention Deperdussins France 1913 Dep trim monoplane bullet-shaped nose enclosing 160-hp Gnome rotary engine Maurice Prevost flew win years race world record speed 127 mph though American won first series thus second race held US French domi nated speed flying prior World War including inaugural Schneider Trophy Race Monaco 1913 Pre yost won float-equipped Deperdussin final prewar Schneider went Briton Howard Pixton flew Sopwith Tabloid 86 mph World War ended speed flying racing picked up left off Using considerable technical knowledge gained during war sudden increase speed first postwar Gordon Bennet Race won French speed pilot Sadi Lecointe flying Nieuport-Delage 29V better 168 mph suddenly end Gordon Bennett Trophy Race airplanes French won three times row trophy keep Schneider Races continued slowly gained international stature 1919 race bust because persis / if1 7 II IAB / PH NOSE DETAIL 0 05 I. 0 GLOSTER IB 1927 Aaric 1 iR4 7 10rE E T 123METER tent fog 1920 race single finisher Luigi Bologna Ital ian Savoja S12 flying boat 106 mph 1921 almost same thing hap pened Giovanni de Briganti pilot complete course Macchi M7 118mph America slow awaken po tential airplane after having vented things started move 1920s dawned Joseph Pulitzer another newspaper publisher offered trophy name open types air planes got lot attention triggered some very clever work men ideas about make air planes go faster first Pulitzer Race Mitchell Field Long Island 1920 drew huge field tired military airplanes winner Army Capt Corliss Mosely flew Verville-Packard first wonderful string military racers 157 mph wasnt quite up what Europeans doing Yanks coming 1921 Pulitzer Race entry list down few significant airplanes others clearly out conten- tion Winning flashy Bert Acosta Navy Curtiss CR-l its big V-12 en gine screaming lapped course near Omaha NE better 176 mph sudden America dis covered streamlining value great gobs cubic inches paying off speed 1922 Pulitzer Race become worlds fastest Russell Maughan US Army won classy Cur tiss R-6 better 205 mph Schneider Race still attracting modified standard flying boats went Henry Biard England Supermarine Sea Lion II just 145 mph France second series races Coupe Deutsch pitted some highly impressive European racers against other long-course race 1921 Georges Kirsch won 172 mph Nieuport-Delage sesquiplane 1922 Fernand Lasne flew similar air plane victory 180 mph good racing attracted little atten tion outside Europe thing like what would happen third Coupe Deutsch came upon scene decade later Pulitzer Trophy Race remained supreme 1923 great Al Williams winning Curtiss R2C-l 244 mph around pylon coursefaster anyone else yet flown straight line Curtiss airframes en gines top world same year David Rittenhouse pulled off Americas first Schneider Race win Curtiss CR-3 177 mph easily outrun ning everyone another CR-3 pilot 1924 Pulitzer disappoint mentfor very first time No new _____F ABCDE34 IIII II IIIII II GROSVENOR HousR 1111 EF 00 ri 6 IIIH ___II~ ---rA IJ ----0123METER IIIII DH88 COMET _______________ ______LI510FEETGROSVENOR HOUSE~ RLA%rJl Avitinn Winner 1934 MacRobertson Racea long 11333 miles London Melbourne deHaviHand deH88 Comet Grosvenor House Credit Truman Weaver collection airplanes entered some best didnt perform Burt Skeelh Cur tiss R-6 came apart during diving start leaving just three airplanes race Cyrus Bettis won Verville Sprerry R-3 racer 216 mph followed Brookley R-6 215 mph Things began pick up 1925 Pulitzer went Bettis Curtiss R3C-l 249 mph airplane fit ted set floats Schneider Race Jimmy Doolittle used win Baltimore MD 233 mph despite tremendous technical know ledge favorable publicity Army Navy gained Curtiss Racers program ended fear pilot would lost spotlight addition serious concern limit hu man endurance being approached airplanes neared 300 mph Pulitzer Race get ting lions share attention gradually become part Na tional Air Races event composed races different categories airplanes would continue long after Pulitzer become history until some 'name' trophy races created replace Pulitzer Nationals got limited attention Schneider Race other hand grew more prestigious nations pouring huge amounts money drive more speed would give more brag about 1926 Schneid er Hampton Roads VA first important win Italians Mario de Bernardi whipped around 50-km course Macchi M39 looked lot like monoplane Curtiss record 246 mph race run before tens thousands peo ple its hard keep winning formula secret 1927 Schneider Race saw British pick up Americans Italians left off producing first startling series Supermarine Racers Sidney Webster won year type S5 282 mphfaster World Speed Record held French landplane year 1928 quiet except Mario de Bernardis coup Macchi M52R seaplane racer became first human travel over 300 mph averaged 319 mph series sprints near Venice Italy sea plane achieve such speed landplanes couldnt credit sthn ulation Schneider Trophy lesser need compromise sea plane design between takeoff perform ance top speed big year fdr American air racing 1929 starting first All-Amer ican Air Races Miami mov ing National Air Races held Cleveland first time latter highlighted race 000 I AB C 4--. 0 05lOEET 0 \fI7XV&X I I 12 -- CURTISS R3C1 Thompson Cup pitting civilians against military long domi nated sport civilians Doug Davis won over GIs Travel I__________________________ E __ // 00 CAUDRON CA6O 4 rr 05 Auaust 1984 59 Left Being trundled starting line Roscoe Turners Meteor won 1938 1939 Thompson Trophy Races Credit Tru man Weaver collection Right Miles Hawk Speed Six combines sportiness comfort good flying qualities best British handicap racers among several relatively low-powered ones flown Kings Cup Thirties Credit MP Marsh collection Air Mystery racer enthusiasm backyard designers builders sparked revolution Thompson Cup became Thompson Trophy world air racing would never same end year British re inforced control over Schneid er Race Henry Waghorn flew Supermarine S6A victory 329 mph leaving own teammates far behind second disappoint ing time Al Williams tried get self-financed racer ready failed 1930 National Air Races held Chicago highlighted Speed Holmans winning Thompson Trophy Race Laird Solution 202 mph followed closely Jimmy Haizlip Travel Air 200 mph I— FABC0 NX GOON III H 0METER123 I I OFEET510 ART CHESTERS GOON crowds grew rapidly did purses soon aviations great showcase par Kentucky Derby Indianapolis 500 start air racings Golden Age 1931 National Air Races moved back Cleveland saw introduction another major event Bendix Transcontinental Derby free-for-all Los Angeles Cleve land winner Jimmy Doolittle flew new Laird Super Solution biplane 2000 miles 223 mph out supposedly-vital elec tronic aids know today 1931 Thompson Race went Lowell Bayles airplane im mediately became symobol era Gee Bee speed 236 enough edge Jimmy Wedellin No 44 Wedell-Williams 228 mph speeds well below Schneider Race seaplanes racers Cleveland homebuilts no government money behind few days after Cleveland came final race long Schneider series John Boothman winning unchal lenged 340 mph ultimate Supermarine S6B trophy became permanent possession Great Britain few days later George Stainforth used same airplane break 400 mph barrier averaged 407 mph over 3km straight course Schneider out picture spotlight shone Cleveland Jim Haizllp won 1932 Bendix 245 mph Wedell-Williams sweep event Doolittle firmed up claim air racing immortality win ning Thompson Gee Bee Super Sportster 253 mph speed record stood four years led three Wedells across finish linethe highlight Gee Bees spectacularbut-checkered career quiet European racing scene came back life 1933 yet another series races Coupe Deutsch As before French dominated time did some exciting efficient airplanes ever raced first Coupe won radial-engined Potez racer Continued page 147 60 Model Aviation EBERLES IS OUR HEADQUARTERS FOR HELJCOPTERSEBLL COMPLETE Liii OF HELICOPTERS PARTS & ACCESSORIES SW___ O COMPETiTOR PR Fully aerobatic cole new added bearings. 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original 64 entries 20 actually started grand winner mag nificent red deHavilland Comet flown Campbell-Black Scott its two straight-six Gypsy engines singing almost 71 hours predecessor Mosquito bomber averaged 159 mph win both Speed Handicap Di visions second Douglas DC-2 third Speed contest Boeing 247 flown Roscoe Turner Starting out 1935 Coupe Deutsch race France Again clean sweep Caudrons type 460s taking first three places Ray mond Delmotte winner 276 150 Model Aviation mph Yves Lacombe second 264 mph Such speed limited power ignored hotshot pilots huge crowds Cleveland would always 1935 National Air Races known Benny Howard air races fine designs won important event Ben won Bendix clean high-wing Mr Mulligan 239 mph second-fastest yet Harold Neumann took over Thompson amazed everyone winning big com fortable cross-country machine 220 mph edged Steve Wittman V-12-powered Bonzo clocked 2187 mph Neumann took control Howards little Mike won Greve Race 213 mph over Art Chester Roger Don Rae 1936 racing season didnt really get rolling until September Nationals Los Angeles Clevelands runways being paved Bendix won staggerwing Beech flown Blanche Noyes Louise Thaden slow 165 mph rules still prohibited men women racing gether around pylons no wor ried about flying across same country Thompson Greve Races shocking Bendix sleek Caudron 460s shipped over France Michael Detroyat pilot whipped Americans soundly Using small Renault engine Detroyat turned 247 mph Greve Race 20 mph faster anyone else Thompson larger Renault enabled him blow past locals win record 264 mph larger engine still less half size power Pratt & Whitney Earl Ortmans 248-mph runner-up Marcoux Bromberg racer bitter pill swallow Americans ad mit beaten own game 1936 Coupe Deutsch anti dilmax new Caudrons 450-hp V-l 2 engines ready Flying older Caudron Yves Lacomb won long race 242 mph Because great success 1934 London-Melbourne race Schle singer Race scheduled 1936 run Portsmouth England Jo hannesburg 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1 Henri Farman rounds pylon Reims France 1909 Although very first air race standards already set pylon design pylon judgingand low flyingl event ended thousands people thrilled air racing Credit Smithsonian Institution began 1909 75 years multitude planes raced have become beloved subjects modeling Especially early days racing provided impetus designing building more-efficient airplanes Part 1 covers beginning WW II SEVENTY-FIVE years ago August 1909 something spectacular hap pened Reims France took everyones mind off world-famous cathedral nearby Champagne vineyards ast few days airplaneslots themengaging orgy record setEDon Berliner ting pylon racing Nothing remotely like seen before anywhere fact hardly tens thousands spec tators including princes presidents seen single airplane propelling itself through air As several flying once almost beyond imagination After Euro pean aviation community still over shock having seen Wilbur Wright fly routinely LeMans year before brave inven tors come close real flight Left The splendid grandstands Reims first air race T-shirts showing souped-up Mustangs yet vogue Credit Smithsonian Institution Right Mr Mulligan really big Monocoupe won 1936 Bendix Thompson Races despite its size Credit Truman Weaver Aiiaijt QR4 5 Left Lester Maitland Curtiss R-6 2nd 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race Right Johnny Livingston clipped-wing Monocoupe tough beat races limited-displacement engines Airplanes era great modeling Both Truman Weaver collection covered grandstands place Reims-Champagne huge scoreboard erected checkered py ions set corners 5km 31 mL rectangular course park ing lot crammed magnificent old heaps would turn modern tique car buff chartreuse envy Everything other words ready worlds first air race Except first mat ter mud dealt everywhere thanks hours heavy rain Cars people squished through ankle-deep slime werent hiding yet another down pour come out droves stayedwaiting something happen something sup posed airplanes racing around aerial racetrack first time history afternoon Saturday August 22 particularly heavy storm hit blew through leaving air clear calm time trials select French team coming Gordon Bennett Trophy Race short order seven airplanes aloft what journalist called wonderful un precedented spectacle crowd awed sight airplanes climbing high above field altitude records rattling way around race course speed tests struggling back forth set dur ation distance marks new strange yet working flying machine little rumor minds people suddenly become something could seen heard smelled end historic air meet thousands people become famil iar sight airplanes charging around pylon-marked course Air rac ing thus born plains Beth eny die cast threequarters century marvelous flying premiere event Reims 1909 James Gordon Bennett Trophy presented publishing baron saw air racing sport could Fl LEFT WING UNDER SIDE 0 5 -IABCD 3METER H 1 0r EE ABC UI NOSE DETAIL rdI Aviation DEPERDUSSIN 1913 Left Ben Howards Mike series highly successful racers won its share trophies Cleveland smaller meets Right Jimmy Wedell great Wedell-Williams racers Cleveland wins early 30s Both Truman Weaver boost aviation l newspapers winner first big race American field pioneer builder Glenn Curtiss flying Reims Racer flew two laps course 15 mm 506 sec average blazing 471 mph Next fastest Louis Bleriot 468 mph may have very fast certainly close thats what makes kind racing fun Gordon Bennett quickly became first air racings classic trophies 1912 inspiring design real racing planes first attract international attention Deperdussins France 1913 Dep trim monoplane bullet-shaped nose enclosing 160-hp Gnome rotary engine Maurice Prevost flew win years race world record speed 127 mph though American won first series thus second race held US French domi nated speed flying prior World War including inaugural Schneider Trophy Race Monaco 1913 Pre yost won float-equipped Deperdussin final prewar Schneider went Briton Howard Pixton flew Sopwith Tabloid 86 mph World War ended speed flying racing picked up left off Using considerable technical knowledge gained during war sudden increase speed first postwar Gordon Bennet Race won French speed pilot Sadi Lecointe flying Nieuport-Delage 29V better 168 mph suddenly end Gordon Bennett Trophy Race airplanes French won three times row trophy keep Schneider Races continued slowly gained international stature 1919 race bust because persis / if1 7 II IAB / PH NOSE DETAIL 0 05 I. 0 GLOSTER IB 1927 Aaric 1 iR4 7 10rE E T 123METER tent fog 1920 race single finisher Luigi Bologna Ital ian Savoja S12 flying boat 106 mph 1921 almost same thing hap pened Giovanni de Briganti pilot complete course Macchi M7 118mph America slow awaken po tential airplane after having vented things started move 1920s dawned Joseph Pulitzer another newspaper publisher offered trophy name open types air planes got lot attention triggered some very clever work men ideas about make air planes go faster first Pulitzer Race Mitchell Field Long Island 1920 drew huge field tired military airplanes winner Army Capt Corliss Mosely flew Verville-Packard first wonderful string military racers 157 mph wasnt quite up what Europeans doing Yanks coming 1921 Pulitzer Race entry list down few significant airplanes others clearly out conten- tion Winning flashy Bert Acosta Navy Curtiss CR-l its big V-12 en gine screaming lapped course near Omaha NE better 176 mph sudden America dis covered streamlining value great gobs cubic inches paying off speed 1922 Pulitzer Race become worlds fastest Russell Maughan US Army won classy Cur tiss R-6 better 205 mph Schneider Race still attracting modified standard flying boats went Henry Biard England Supermarine Sea Lion II just 145 mph France second series races Coupe Deutsch pitted some highly impressive European racers against other long-course race 1921 Georges Kirsch won 172 mph Nieuport-Delage sesquiplane 1922 Fernand Lasne flew similar air plane victory 180 mph good racing attracted little atten tion outside Europe thing like what would happen third Coupe Deutsch came upon scene decade later Pulitzer Trophy Race remained supreme 1923 great Al Williams winning Curtiss R2C-l 244 mph around pylon coursefaster anyone else yet flown straight line Curtiss airframes en gines top world same year David Rittenhouse pulled off Americas first Schneider Race win Curtiss CR-3 177 mph easily outrun ning everyone another CR-3 pilot 1924 Pulitzer disappoint mentfor very first time No new _____F ABCDE34 IIII II IIIII II GROSVENOR HousR 1111 EF 00 ri 6 IIIH ___II~ ---rA IJ ----0123METER IIIII DH88 COMET _______________ ______LI510FEETGROSVENOR HOUSE~ RLA%rJl Avitinn Winner 1934 MacRobertson Racea long 11333 miles London Melbourne deHaviHand deH88 Comet Grosvenor House Credit Truman Weaver collection airplanes entered some best didnt perform Burt Skeelh Cur tiss R-6 came apart during diving start leaving just three airplanes race Cyrus Bettis won Verville Sprerry R-3 racer 216 mph followed Brookley R-6 215 mph Things began pick up 1925 Pulitzer went Bettis Curtiss R3C-l 249 mph airplane fit ted set floats Schneider Race Jimmy Doolittle used win Baltimore MD 233 mph despite tremendous technical know ledge favorable publicity Army Navy gained Curtiss Racers program ended fear pilot would lost spotlight addition serious concern limit hu man endurance being approached airplanes neared 300 mph Pulitzer Race get ting lions share attention gradually become part Na tional Air Races event composed races different categories airplanes would continue long after Pulitzer become history until some 'name' trophy races created replace Pulitzer Nationals got limited attention Schneider Race other hand grew more prestigious nations pouring huge amounts money drive more speed would give more brag about 1926 Schneid er Hampton Roads VA first important win Italians Mario de Bernardi whipped around 50-km course Macchi M39 looked lot like monoplane Curtiss record 246 mph race run before tens thousands peo ple its hard keep winning formula secret 1927 Schneider Race saw British pick up Americans Italians left off producing first startling series Supermarine Racers Sidney Webster won year type S5 282 mphfaster World Speed Record held French landplane year 1928 quiet except Mario de Bernardis coup Macchi M52R seaplane racer became first human travel over 300 mph averaged 319 mph series sprints near Venice Italy sea plane achieve such speed landplanes couldnt credit sthn ulation Schneider Trophy lesser need compromise sea plane design between takeoff perform ance top speed big year fdr American air racing 1929 starting first All-Amer ican Air Races Miami mov ing National Air Races held Cleveland first time latter highlighted race 000 I AB C 4--. 0 05lOEET 0 \fI7XV&X I I 12 -- CURTISS R3C1 Thompson Cup pitting civilians against military long domi nated sport civilians Doug Davis won over GIs Travel I__________________________ E __ // 00 CAUDRON CA6O 4 rr 05 Auaust 1984 59 Left Being trundled starting line Roscoe Turners Meteor won 1938 1939 Thompson Trophy Races Credit Tru man Weaver collection Right Miles Hawk Speed Six combines sportiness comfort good flying qualities best British handicap racers among several relatively low-powered ones flown Kings Cup Thirties Credit MP Marsh collection Air Mystery racer enthusiasm backyard designers builders sparked revolution Thompson Cup became Thompson Trophy world air racing would never same end year British re inforced control over Schneid er Race Henry Waghorn flew Supermarine S6A victory 329 mph leaving own teammates far behind second disappoint ing time Al Williams tried get self-financed racer ready failed 1930 National Air Races held Chicago highlighted Speed Holmans winning Thompson Trophy Race Laird Solution 202 mph followed closely Jimmy Haizlip Travel Air 200 mph I— FABC0 NX GOON III H 0METER123 I I OFEET510 ART CHESTERS GOON crowds grew rapidly did purses soon aviations great showcase par Kentucky Derby Indianapolis 500 start air racings Golden Age 1931 National Air Races moved back Cleveland saw introduction another major event Bendix Transcontinental Derby free-for-all Los Angeles Cleve land winner Jimmy Doolittle flew new Laird Super Solution biplane 2000 miles 223 mph out supposedly-vital elec tronic aids know today 1931 Thompson Race went Lowell Bayles airplane im mediately became symobol era Gee Bee speed 236 enough edge Jimmy Wedellin No 44 Wedell-Williams 228 mph speeds well below Schneider Race seaplanes racers Cleveland homebuilts no government money behind few days after Cleveland came final race long Schneider series John Boothman winning unchal lenged 340 mph ultimate Supermarine S6B trophy became permanent possession Great Britain few days later George Stainforth used same airplane break 400 mph barrier averaged 407 mph over 3km straight course Schneider out picture spotlight shone Cleveland Jim Haizllp won 1932 Bendix 245 mph Wedell-Williams sweep event Doolittle firmed up claim air racing immortality win ning Thompson Gee Bee Super Sportster 253 mph speed record stood four years led three Wedells across finish linethe highlight Gee Bees spectacularbut-checkered career quiet European racing scene came back life 1933 yet another series races Coupe Deutsch As before French dominated time did some exciting efficient airplanes ever raced first Coupe won radial-engined Potez racer Continued page 147 60 Model Aviation EBERLES IS OUR HEADQUARTERS FOR HELJCOPTERSEBLL COMPLETE Liii OF HELICOPTERS PARTS & ACCESSORIES SW___ O COMPETiTOR PR Fully aerobatic cole new added bearings. 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original 64 entries 20 actually started grand winner mag nificent red deHavilland Comet flown Campbell-Black Scott its two straight-six Gypsy engines singing almost 71 hours predecessor Mosquito bomber averaged 159 mph win both Speed Handicap Di visions second Douglas DC-2 third Speed contest Boeing 247 flown Roscoe Turner Starting out 1935 Coupe Deutsch race France Again clean sweep Caudrons type 460s taking first three places Ray mond Delmotte winner 276 150 Model Aviation mph Yves Lacombe second 264 mph Such speed limited power ignored hotshot pilots huge crowds Cleveland would always 1935 National Air Races known Benny Howard air races fine designs won important event Ben won Bendix clean high-wing Mr Mulligan 239 mph second-fastest yet Harold Neumann took over Thompson amazed everyone winning big com fortable cross-country machine 220 mph edged Steve Wittman V-12-powered Bonzo clocked 2187 mph Neumann took control Howards little Mike won Greve Race 213 mph over Art Chester Roger Don Rae 1936 racing season didnt really get rolling until September Nationals Los Angeles Clevelands runways being paved Bendix won staggerwing Beech flown Blanche Noyes Louise Thaden slow 165 mph rules still prohibited men women racing gether around pylons no wor ried about flying across same country Thompson Greve Races shocking Bendix sleek Caudron 460s shipped over France Michael Detroyat pilot whipped Americans soundly Using small Renault engine Detroyat turned 247 mph Greve Race 20 mph faster anyone else Thompson larger Renault enabled him blow past locals win record 264 mph larger engine still less half size power Pratt & Whitney Earl Ortmans 248-mph runner-up Marcoux Bromberg racer bitter pill swallow Americans ad mit beaten own game 1936 Coupe Deutsch anti dilmax new Caudrons 450-hp V-l 2 engines ready Flying older Caudron Yves Lacomb won long race 242 mph Because great success 1934 London-Melbourne race Schle singer Race scheduled 1936 run Portsmouth England Jo hannesburg 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1 Henri Farman rounds pylon Reims France 1909 Although very first air race standards already set pylon design pylon judgingand low flyingl event ended thousands people thrilled air racing Credit Smithsonian Institution began 1909 75 years multitude planes raced have become beloved subjects modeling Especially early days racing provided impetus designing building more-efficient airplanes Part 1 covers beginning WW II SEVENTY-FIVE years ago August 1909 something spectacular hap pened Reims France took everyones mind off world-famous cathedral nearby Champagne vineyards ast few days airplaneslots themengaging orgy record setEDon Berliner ting pylon racing Nothing remotely like seen before anywhere fact hardly tens thousands spec tators including princes presidents seen single airplane propelling itself through air As several flying once almost beyond imagination After Euro pean aviation community still over shock having seen Wilbur Wright fly routinely LeMans year before brave inven tors come close real flight Left The splendid grandstands Reims first air race T-shirts showing souped-up Mustangs yet vogue Credit Smithsonian Institution Right Mr Mulligan really big Monocoupe won 1936 Bendix Thompson Races despite its size Credit Truman Weaver Aiiaijt QR4 5 Left Lester Maitland Curtiss R-6 2nd 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race Right Johnny Livingston clipped-wing Monocoupe tough beat races limited-displacement engines Airplanes era great modeling Both Truman Weaver collection covered grandstands place Reims-Champagne huge scoreboard erected checkered py ions set corners 5km 31 mL rectangular course park ing lot crammed magnificent old heaps would turn modern tique car buff chartreuse envy Everything other words ready worlds first air race Except first mat ter mud dealt everywhere thanks hours heavy rain Cars people squished through ankle-deep slime werent hiding yet another down pour come out droves stayedwaiting something happen something sup posed airplanes racing around aerial racetrack first time history afternoon Saturday August 22 particularly heavy storm hit blew through leaving air clear calm time trials select French team coming Gordon Bennett Trophy Race short order seven airplanes aloft what journalist called wonderful un precedented spectacle crowd awed sight airplanes climbing high above field altitude records rattling way around race course speed tests struggling back forth set dur ation distance marks new strange yet working flying machine little rumor minds people suddenly become something could seen heard smelled end historic air meet thousands people become famil iar sight airplanes charging around pylon-marked course Air rac ing thus born plains Beth eny die cast threequarters century marvelous flying premiere event Reims 1909 James Gordon Bennett Trophy presented publishing baron saw air racing sport could Fl LEFT WING UNDER SIDE 0 5 -IABCD 3METER H 1 0r EE ABC UI NOSE DETAIL rdI Aviation DEPERDUSSIN 1913 Left Ben Howards Mike series highly successful racers won its share trophies Cleveland smaller meets Right Jimmy Wedell great Wedell-Williams racers Cleveland wins early 30s Both Truman Weaver boost aviation l newspapers winner first big race American field pioneer builder Glenn Curtiss flying Reims Racer flew two laps course 15 mm 506 sec average blazing 471 mph Next fastest Louis Bleriot 468 mph may have very fast certainly close thats what makes kind racing fun Gordon Bennett quickly became first air racings classic trophies 1912 inspiring design real racing planes first attract international attention Deperdussins France 1913 Dep trim monoplane bullet-shaped nose enclosing 160-hp Gnome rotary engine Maurice Prevost flew win years race world record speed 127 mph though American won first series thus second race held US French domi nated speed flying prior World War including inaugural Schneider Trophy Race Monaco 1913 Pre yost won float-equipped Deperdussin final prewar Schneider went Briton Howard Pixton flew Sopwith Tabloid 86 mph World War ended speed flying racing picked up left off Using considerable technical knowledge gained during war sudden increase speed first postwar Gordon Bennet Race won French speed pilot Sadi Lecointe flying Nieuport-Delage 29V better 168 mph suddenly end Gordon Bennett Trophy Race airplanes French won three times row trophy keep Schneider Races continued slowly gained international stature 1919 race bust because persis / if1 7 II IAB / PH NOSE DETAIL 0 05 I. 0 GLOSTER IB 1927 Aaric 1 iR4 7 10rE E T 123METER tent fog 1920 race single finisher Luigi Bologna Ital ian Savoja S12 flying boat 106 mph 1921 almost same thing hap pened Giovanni de Briganti pilot complete course Macchi M7 118mph America slow awaken po tential airplane after having vented things started move 1920s dawned Joseph Pulitzer another newspaper publisher offered trophy name open types air planes got lot attention triggered some very clever work men ideas about make air planes go faster first Pulitzer Race Mitchell Field Long Island 1920 drew huge field tired military airplanes winner Army Capt Corliss Mosely flew Verville-Packard first wonderful string military racers 157 mph wasnt quite up what Europeans doing Yanks coming 1921 Pulitzer Race entry list down few significant airplanes others clearly out conten- tion Winning flashy Bert Acosta Navy Curtiss CR-l its big V-12 en gine screaming lapped course near Omaha NE better 176 mph sudden America dis covered streamlining value great gobs cubic inches paying off speed 1922 Pulitzer Race become worlds fastest Russell Maughan US Army won classy Cur tiss R-6 better 205 mph Schneider Race still attracting modified standard flying boats went Henry Biard England Supermarine Sea Lion II just 145 mph France second series races Coupe Deutsch pitted some highly impressive European racers against other long-course race 1921 Georges Kirsch won 172 mph Nieuport-Delage sesquiplane 1922 Fernand Lasne flew similar air plane victory 180 mph good racing attracted little atten tion outside Europe thing like what would happen third Coupe Deutsch came upon scene decade later Pulitzer Trophy Race remained supreme 1923 great Al Williams winning Curtiss R2C-l 244 mph around pylon coursefaster anyone else yet flown straight line Curtiss airframes en gines top world same year David Rittenhouse pulled off Americas first Schneider Race win Curtiss CR-3 177 mph easily outrun ning everyone another CR-3 pilot 1924 Pulitzer disappoint mentfor very first time No new _____F ABCDE34 IIII II IIIII II GROSVENOR HousR 1111 EF 00 ri 6 IIIH ___II~ ---rA IJ ----0123METER IIIII DH88 COMET _______________ ______LI510FEETGROSVENOR HOUSE~ RLA%rJl Avitinn Winner 1934 MacRobertson Racea long 11333 miles London Melbourne deHaviHand deH88 Comet Grosvenor House Credit Truman Weaver collection airplanes entered some best didnt perform Burt Skeelh Cur tiss R-6 came apart during diving start leaving just three airplanes race Cyrus Bettis won Verville Sprerry R-3 racer 216 mph followed Brookley R-6 215 mph Things began pick up 1925 Pulitzer went Bettis Curtiss R3C-l 249 mph airplane fit ted set floats Schneider Race Jimmy Doolittle used win Baltimore MD 233 mph despite tremendous technical know ledge favorable publicity Army Navy gained Curtiss Racers program ended fear pilot would lost spotlight addition serious concern limit hu man endurance being approached airplanes neared 300 mph Pulitzer Race get ting lions share attention gradually become part Na tional Air Races event composed races different categories airplanes would continue long after Pulitzer become history until some 'name' trophy races created replace Pulitzer Nationals got limited attention Schneider Race other hand grew more prestigious nations pouring huge amounts money drive more speed would give more brag about 1926 Schneid er Hampton Roads VA first important win Italians Mario de Bernardi whipped around 50-km course Macchi M39 looked lot like monoplane Curtiss record 246 mph race run before tens thousands peo ple its hard keep winning formula secret 1927 Schneider Race saw British pick up Americans Italians left off producing first startling series Supermarine Racers Sidney Webster won year type S5 282 mphfaster World Speed Record held French landplane year 1928 quiet except Mario de Bernardis coup Macchi M52R seaplane racer became first human travel over 300 mph averaged 319 mph series sprints near Venice Italy sea plane achieve such speed landplanes couldnt credit sthn ulation Schneider Trophy lesser need compromise sea plane design between takeoff perform ance top speed big year fdr American air racing 1929 starting first All-Amer ican Air Races Miami mov ing National Air Races held Cleveland first time latter highlighted race 000 I AB C 4--. 0 05lOEET 0 \fI7XV&X I I 12 -- CURTISS R3C1 Thompson Cup pitting civilians against military long domi nated sport civilians Doug Davis won over GIs Travel I__________________________ E __ // 00 CAUDRON CA6O 4 rr 05 Auaust 1984 59 Left Being trundled starting line Roscoe Turners Meteor won 1938 1939 Thompson Trophy Races Credit Tru man Weaver collection Right Miles Hawk Speed Six combines sportiness comfort good flying qualities best British handicap racers among several relatively low-powered ones flown Kings Cup Thirties Credit MP Marsh collection Air Mystery racer enthusiasm backyard designers builders sparked revolution Thompson Cup became Thompson Trophy world air racing would never same end year British re inforced control over Schneid er Race Henry Waghorn flew Supermarine S6A victory 329 mph leaving own teammates far behind second disappoint ing time Al Williams tried get self-financed racer ready failed 1930 National Air Races held Chicago highlighted Speed Holmans winning Thompson Trophy Race Laird Solution 202 mph followed closely Jimmy Haizlip Travel Air 200 mph I— FABC0 NX GOON III H 0METER123 I I OFEET510 ART CHESTERS GOON crowds grew rapidly did purses soon aviations great showcase par Kentucky Derby Indianapolis 500 start air racings Golden Age 1931 National Air Races moved back Cleveland saw introduction another major event Bendix Transcontinental Derby free-for-all Los Angeles Cleve land winner Jimmy Doolittle flew new Laird Super Solution biplane 2000 miles 223 mph out supposedly-vital elec tronic aids know today 1931 Thompson Race went Lowell Bayles airplane im mediately became symobol era Gee Bee speed 236 enough edge Jimmy Wedellin No 44 Wedell-Williams 228 mph speeds well below Schneider Race seaplanes racers Cleveland homebuilts no government money behind few days after Cleveland came final race long Schneider series John Boothman winning unchal lenged 340 mph ultimate Supermarine S6B trophy became permanent possession Great Britain few days later George Stainforth used same airplane break 400 mph barrier averaged 407 mph over 3km straight course Schneider out picture spotlight shone Cleveland Jim Haizllp won 1932 Bendix 245 mph Wedell-Williams sweep event Doolittle firmed up claim air racing immortality win ning Thompson Gee Bee Super Sportster 253 mph speed record stood four years led three Wedells across finish linethe highlight Gee Bees spectacularbut-checkered career quiet European racing scene came back life 1933 yet another series races Coupe Deutsch As before French dominated time did some exciting efficient airplanes ever raced first Coupe won radial-engined Potez racer Continued page 147 60 Model Aviation EBERLES IS OUR HEADQUARTERS FOR HELJCOPTERSEBLL COMPLETE Liii OF HELICOPTERS PARTS & ACCESSORIES SW___ O COMPETiTOR PR Fully aerobatic cole new added bearings. 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original 64 entries 20 actually started grand winner mag nificent red deHavilland Comet flown Campbell-Black Scott its two straight-six Gypsy engines singing almost 71 hours predecessor Mosquito bomber averaged 159 mph win both Speed Handicap Di visions second Douglas DC-2 third Speed contest Boeing 247 flown Roscoe Turner Starting out 1935 Coupe Deutsch race France Again clean sweep Caudrons type 460s taking first three places Ray mond Delmotte winner 276 150 Model Aviation mph Yves Lacombe second 264 mph Such speed limited power ignored hotshot pilots huge crowds Cleveland would always 1935 National Air Races known Benny Howard air races fine designs won important event Ben won Bendix clean high-wing Mr Mulligan 239 mph second-fastest yet Harold Neumann took over Thompson amazed everyone winning big com fortable cross-country machine 220 mph edged Steve Wittman V-12-powered Bonzo clocked 2187 mph Neumann took control Howards little Mike won Greve Race 213 mph over Art Chester Roger Don Rae 1936 racing season didnt really get rolling until September Nationals Los Angeles Clevelands runways being paved Bendix won staggerwing Beech flown Blanche Noyes Louise Thaden slow 165 mph rules still prohibited men women racing gether around pylons no wor ried about flying across same country Thompson Greve Races shocking Bendix sleek Caudron 460s shipped over France Michael Detroyat pilot whipped Americans soundly Using small Renault engine Detroyat turned 247 mph Greve Race 20 mph faster anyone else Thompson larger Renault enabled him blow past locals win record 264 mph larger engine still less half size power Pratt & Whitney Earl Ortmans 248-mph runner-up Marcoux Bromberg racer bitter pill swallow Americans ad mit beaten own game 1936 Coupe Deutsch anti dilmax new Caudrons 450-hp V-l 2 engines ready Flying older Caudron Yves Lacomb won long race 242 mph Because great success 1934 London-Melbourne race Schle singer Race scheduled 1936 run Portsmouth England Jo hannesburg 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1 Henri Farman rounds pylon Reims France 1909 Although very first air race standards already set pylon design pylon judgingand low flyingl event ended thousands people thrilled air racing Credit Smithsonian Institution began 1909 75 years multitude planes raced have become beloved subjects modeling Especially early days racing provided impetus designing building more-efficient airplanes Part 1 covers beginning WW II SEVENTY-FIVE years ago August 1909 something spectacular hap pened Reims France took everyones mind off world-famous cathedral nearby Champagne vineyards ast few days airplaneslots themengaging orgy record setEDon Berliner ting pylon racing Nothing remotely like seen before anywhere fact hardly tens thousands spec tators including princes presidents seen single airplane propelling itself through air As several flying once almost beyond imagination After Euro pean aviation community still over shock having seen Wilbur Wright fly routinely LeMans year before brave inven tors come close real flight Left The splendid grandstands Reims first air race T-shirts showing souped-up Mustangs yet vogue Credit Smithsonian Institution Right Mr Mulligan really big Monocoupe won 1936 Bendix Thompson Races despite its size Credit Truman Weaver Aiiaijt QR4 5 Left Lester Maitland Curtiss R-6 2nd 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race Right Johnny Livingston clipped-wing Monocoupe tough beat races limited-displacement engines Airplanes era great modeling Both Truman Weaver collection covered grandstands place Reims-Champagne huge scoreboard erected checkered py ions set corners 5km 31 mL rectangular course park ing lot crammed magnificent old heaps would turn modern tique car buff chartreuse envy Everything other words ready worlds first air race Except first mat ter mud dealt everywhere thanks hours heavy rain Cars people squished through ankle-deep slime werent hiding yet another down pour come out droves stayedwaiting something happen something sup posed airplanes racing around aerial racetrack first time history afternoon Saturday August 22 particularly heavy storm hit blew through leaving air clear calm time trials select French team coming Gordon Bennett Trophy Race short order seven airplanes aloft what journalist called wonderful un precedented spectacle crowd awed sight airplanes climbing high above field altitude records rattling way around race course speed tests struggling back forth set dur ation distance marks new strange yet working flying machine little rumor minds people suddenly become something could seen heard smelled end historic air meet thousands people become famil iar sight airplanes charging around pylon-marked course Air rac ing thus born plains Beth eny die cast threequarters century marvelous flying premiere event Reims 1909 James Gordon Bennett Trophy presented publishing baron saw air racing sport could Fl LEFT WING UNDER SIDE 0 5 -IABCD 3METER H 1 0r EE ABC UI NOSE DETAIL rdI Aviation DEPERDUSSIN 1913 Left Ben Howards Mike series highly successful racers won its share trophies Cleveland smaller meets Right Jimmy Wedell great Wedell-Williams racers Cleveland wins early 30s Both Truman Weaver boost aviation l newspapers winner first big race American field pioneer builder Glenn Curtiss flying Reims Racer flew two laps course 15 mm 506 sec average blazing 471 mph Next fastest Louis Bleriot 468 mph may have very fast certainly close thats what makes kind racing fun Gordon Bennett quickly became first air racings classic trophies 1912 inspiring design real racing planes first attract international attention Deperdussins France 1913 Dep trim monoplane bullet-shaped nose enclosing 160-hp Gnome rotary engine Maurice Prevost flew win years race world record speed 127 mph though American won first series thus second race held US French domi nated speed flying prior World War including inaugural Schneider Trophy Race Monaco 1913 Pre yost won float-equipped Deperdussin final prewar Schneider went Briton Howard Pixton flew Sopwith Tabloid 86 mph World War ended speed flying racing picked up left off Using considerable technical knowledge gained during war sudden increase speed first postwar Gordon Bennet Race won French speed pilot Sadi Lecointe flying Nieuport-Delage 29V better 168 mph suddenly end Gordon Bennett Trophy Race airplanes French won three times row trophy keep Schneider Races continued slowly gained international stature 1919 race bust because persis / if1 7 II IAB / PH NOSE DETAIL 0 05 I. 0 GLOSTER IB 1927 Aaric 1 iR4 7 10rE E T 123METER tent fog 1920 race single finisher Luigi Bologna Ital ian Savoja S12 flying boat 106 mph 1921 almost same thing hap pened Giovanni de Briganti pilot complete course Macchi M7 118mph America slow awaken po tential airplane after having vented things started move 1920s dawned Joseph Pulitzer another newspaper publisher offered trophy name open types air planes got lot attention triggered some very clever work men ideas about make air planes go faster first Pulitzer Race Mitchell Field Long Island 1920 drew huge field tired military airplanes winner Army Capt Corliss Mosely flew Verville-Packard first wonderful string military racers 157 mph wasnt quite up what Europeans doing Yanks coming 1921 Pulitzer Race entry list down few significant airplanes others clearly out conten- tion Winning flashy Bert Acosta Navy Curtiss CR-l its big V-12 en gine screaming lapped course near Omaha NE better 176 mph sudden America dis covered streamlining value great gobs cubic inches paying off speed 1922 Pulitzer Race become worlds fastest Russell Maughan US Army won classy Cur tiss R-6 better 205 mph Schneider Race still attracting modified standard flying boats went Henry Biard England Supermarine Sea Lion II just 145 mph France second series races Coupe Deutsch pitted some highly impressive European racers against other long-course race 1921 Georges Kirsch won 172 mph Nieuport-Delage sesquiplane 1922 Fernand Lasne flew similar air plane victory 180 mph good racing attracted little atten tion outside Europe thing like what would happen third Coupe Deutsch came upon scene decade later Pulitzer Trophy Race remained supreme 1923 great Al Williams winning Curtiss R2C-l 244 mph around pylon coursefaster anyone else yet flown straight line Curtiss airframes en gines top world same year David Rittenhouse pulled off Americas first Schneider Race win Curtiss CR-3 177 mph easily outrun ning everyone another CR-3 pilot 1924 Pulitzer disappoint mentfor very first time No new _____F ABCDE34 IIII II IIIII II GROSVENOR HousR 1111 EF 00 ri 6 IIIH ___II~ ---rA IJ ----0123METER IIIII DH88 COMET _______________ ______LI510FEETGROSVENOR HOUSE~ RLA%rJl Avitinn Winner 1934 MacRobertson Racea long 11333 miles London Melbourne deHaviHand deH88 Comet Grosvenor House Credit Truman Weaver collection airplanes entered some best didnt perform Burt Skeelh Cur tiss R-6 came apart during diving start leaving just three airplanes race Cyrus Bettis won Verville Sprerry R-3 racer 216 mph followed Brookley R-6 215 mph Things began pick up 1925 Pulitzer went Bettis Curtiss R3C-l 249 mph airplane fit ted set floats Schneider Race Jimmy Doolittle used win Baltimore MD 233 mph despite tremendous technical know ledge favorable publicity Army Navy gained Curtiss Racers program ended fear pilot would lost spotlight addition serious concern limit hu man endurance being approached airplanes neared 300 mph Pulitzer Race get ting lions share attention gradually become part Na tional Air Races event composed races different categories airplanes would continue long after Pulitzer become history until some 'name' trophy races created replace Pulitzer Nationals got limited attention Schneider Race other hand grew more prestigious nations pouring huge amounts money drive more speed would give more brag about 1926 Schneid er Hampton Roads VA first important win Italians Mario de Bernardi whipped around 50-km course Macchi M39 looked lot like monoplane Curtiss record 246 mph race run before tens thousands peo ple its hard keep winning formula secret 1927 Schneider Race saw British pick up Americans Italians left off producing first startling series Supermarine Racers Sidney Webster won year type S5 282 mphfaster World Speed Record held French landplane year 1928 quiet except Mario de Bernardis coup Macchi M52R seaplane racer became first human travel over 300 mph averaged 319 mph series sprints near Venice Italy sea plane achieve such speed landplanes couldnt credit sthn ulation Schneider Trophy lesser need compromise sea plane design between takeoff perform ance top speed big year fdr American air racing 1929 starting first All-Amer ican Air Races Miami mov ing National Air Races held Cleveland first time latter highlighted race 000 I AB C 4--. 0 05lOEET 0 \fI7XV&X I I 12 -- CURTISS R3C1 Thompson Cup pitting civilians against military long domi nated sport civilians Doug Davis won over GIs Travel I__________________________ E __ // 00 CAUDRON CA6O 4 rr 05 Auaust 1984 59 Left Being trundled starting line Roscoe Turners Meteor won 1938 1939 Thompson Trophy Races Credit Tru man Weaver collection Right Miles Hawk Speed Six combines sportiness comfort good flying qualities best British handicap racers among several relatively low-powered ones flown Kings Cup Thirties Credit MP Marsh collection Air Mystery racer enthusiasm backyard designers builders sparked revolution Thompson Cup became Thompson Trophy world air racing would never same end year British re inforced control over Schneid er Race Henry Waghorn flew Supermarine S6A victory 329 mph leaving own teammates far behind second disappoint ing time Al Williams tried get self-financed racer ready failed 1930 National Air Races held Chicago highlighted Speed Holmans winning Thompson Trophy Race Laird Solution 202 mph followed closely Jimmy Haizlip Travel Air 200 mph I— FABC0 NX GOON III H 0METER123 I I OFEET510 ART CHESTERS GOON crowds grew rapidly did purses soon aviations great showcase par Kentucky Derby Indianapolis 500 start air racings Golden Age 1931 National Air Races moved back Cleveland saw introduction another major event Bendix Transcontinental Derby free-for-all Los Angeles Cleve land winner Jimmy Doolittle flew new Laird Super Solution biplane 2000 miles 223 mph out supposedly-vital elec tronic aids know today 1931 Thompson Race went Lowell Bayles airplane im mediately became symobol era Gee Bee speed 236 enough edge Jimmy Wedellin No 44 Wedell-Williams 228 mph speeds well below Schneider Race seaplanes racers Cleveland homebuilts no government money behind few days after Cleveland came final race long Schneider series John Boothman winning unchal lenged 340 mph ultimate Supermarine S6B trophy became permanent possession Great Britain few days later George Stainforth used same airplane break 400 mph barrier averaged 407 mph over 3km straight course Schneider out picture spotlight shone Cleveland Jim Haizllp won 1932 Bendix 245 mph Wedell-Williams sweep event Doolittle firmed up claim air racing immortality win ning Thompson Gee Bee Super Sportster 253 mph speed record stood four years led three Wedells across finish linethe highlight Gee Bees spectacularbut-checkered career quiet European racing scene came back life 1933 yet another series races Coupe Deutsch As before French dominated time did some exciting efficient airplanes ever raced first Coupe won radial-engined Potez racer Continued page 147 60 Model Aviation EBERLES IS OUR HEADQUARTERS FOR HELJCOPTERSEBLL COMPLETE Liii OF HELICOPTERS PARTS & ACCESSORIES SW___ O COMPETiTOR PR Fully aerobatic cole new added bearings. 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original 64 entries 20 actually started grand winner mag nificent red deHavilland Comet flown Campbell-Black Scott its two straight-six Gypsy engines singing almost 71 hours predecessor Mosquito bomber averaged 159 mph win both Speed Handicap Di visions second Douglas DC-2 third Speed contest Boeing 247 flown Roscoe Turner Starting out 1935 Coupe Deutsch race France Again clean sweep Caudrons type 460s taking first three places Ray mond Delmotte winner 276 150 Model Aviation mph Yves Lacombe second 264 mph Such speed limited power ignored hotshot pilots huge crowds Cleveland would always 1935 National Air Races known Benny Howard air races fine designs won important event Ben won Bendix clean high-wing Mr Mulligan 239 mph second-fastest yet Harold Neumann took over Thompson amazed everyone winning big com fortable cross-country machine 220 mph edged Steve Wittman V-12-powered Bonzo clocked 2187 mph Neumann took control Howards little Mike won Greve Race 213 mph over Art Chester Roger Don Rae 1936 racing season didnt really get rolling until September Nationals Los Angeles Clevelands runways being paved Bendix won staggerwing Beech flown Blanche Noyes Louise Thaden slow 165 mph rules still prohibited men women racing gether around pylons no wor ried about flying across same country Thompson Greve Races shocking Bendix sleek Caudron 460s shipped over France Michael Detroyat pilot whipped Americans soundly Using small Renault engine Detroyat turned 247 mph Greve Race 20 mph faster anyone else Thompson larger Renault enabled him blow past locals win record 264 mph larger engine still less half size power Pratt & Whitney Earl Ortmans 248-mph runner-up Marcoux Bromberg racer bitter pill swallow Americans ad mit beaten own game 1936 Coupe Deutsch anti dilmax new Caudrons 450-hp V-l 2 engines ready Flying older Caudron Yves Lacomb won long race 242 mph Because great success 1934 London-Melbourne race Schle singer Race scheduled 1936 run Portsmouth England Jo hannesburg 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1 Henri Farman rounds pylon Reims France 1909 Although very first air race standards already set pylon design pylon judgingand low flyingl event ended thousands people thrilled air racing Credit Smithsonian Institution began 1909 75 years multitude planes raced have become beloved subjects modeling Especially early days racing provided impetus designing building more-efficient airplanes Part 1 covers beginning WW II SEVENTY-FIVE years ago August 1909 something spectacular hap pened Reims France took everyones mind off world-famous cathedral nearby Champagne vineyards ast few days airplaneslots themengaging orgy record setEDon Berliner ting pylon racing Nothing remotely like seen before anywhere fact hardly tens thousands spec tators including princes presidents seen single airplane propelling itself through air As several flying once almost beyond imagination After Euro pean aviation community still over shock having seen Wilbur Wright fly routinely LeMans year before brave inven tors come close real flight Left The splendid grandstands Reims first air race T-shirts showing souped-up Mustangs yet vogue Credit Smithsonian Institution Right Mr Mulligan really big Monocoupe won 1936 Bendix Thompson Races despite its size Credit Truman Weaver Aiiaijt QR4 5 Left Lester Maitland Curtiss R-6 2nd 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race Right Johnny Livingston clipped-wing Monocoupe tough beat races limited-displacement engines Airplanes era great modeling Both Truman Weaver collection covered grandstands place Reims-Champagne huge scoreboard erected checkered py ions set corners 5km 31 mL rectangular course park ing lot crammed magnificent old heaps would turn modern tique car buff chartreuse envy Everything other words ready worlds first air race Except first mat ter mud dealt everywhere thanks hours heavy rain Cars people squished through ankle-deep slime werent hiding yet another down pour come out droves stayedwaiting something happen something sup posed airplanes racing around aerial racetrack first time history afternoon Saturday August 22 particularly heavy storm hit blew through leaving air clear calm time trials select French team coming Gordon Bennett Trophy Race short order seven airplanes aloft what journalist called wonderful un precedented spectacle crowd awed sight airplanes climbing high above field altitude records rattling way around race course speed tests struggling back forth set dur ation distance marks new strange yet working flying machine little rumor minds people suddenly become something could seen heard smelled end historic air meet thousands people become famil iar sight airplanes charging around pylon-marked course Air rac ing thus born plains Beth eny die cast threequarters century marvelous flying premiere event Reims 1909 James Gordon Bennett Trophy presented publishing baron saw air racing sport could Fl LEFT WING UNDER SIDE 0 5 -IABCD 3METER H 1 0r EE ABC UI NOSE DETAIL rdI Aviation DEPERDUSSIN 1913 Left Ben Howards Mike series highly successful racers won its share trophies Cleveland smaller meets Right Jimmy Wedell great Wedell-Williams racers Cleveland wins early 30s Both Truman Weaver boost aviation l newspapers winner first big race American field pioneer builder Glenn Curtiss flying Reims Racer flew two laps course 15 mm 506 sec average blazing 471 mph Next fastest Louis Bleriot 468 mph may have very fast certainly close thats what makes kind racing fun Gordon Bennett quickly became first air racings classic trophies 1912 inspiring design real racing planes first attract international attention Deperdussins France 1913 Dep trim monoplane bullet-shaped nose enclosing 160-hp Gnome rotary engine Maurice Prevost flew win years race world record speed 127 mph though American won first series thus second race held US French domi nated speed flying prior World War including inaugural Schneider Trophy Race Monaco 1913 Pre yost won float-equipped Deperdussin final prewar Schneider went Briton Howard Pixton flew Sopwith Tabloid 86 mph World War ended speed flying racing picked up left off Using considerable technical knowledge gained during war sudden increase speed first postwar Gordon Bennet Race won French speed pilot Sadi Lecointe flying Nieuport-Delage 29V better 168 mph suddenly end Gordon Bennett Trophy Race airplanes French won three times row trophy keep Schneider Races continued slowly gained international stature 1919 race bust because persis / if1 7 II IAB / PH NOSE DETAIL 0 05 I. 0 GLOSTER IB 1927 Aaric 1 iR4 7 10rE E T 123METER tent fog 1920 race single finisher Luigi Bologna Ital ian Savoja S12 flying boat 106 mph 1921 almost same thing hap pened Giovanni de Briganti pilot complete course Macchi M7 118mph America slow awaken po tential airplane after having vented things started move 1920s dawned Joseph Pulitzer another newspaper publisher offered trophy name open types air planes got lot attention triggered some very clever work men ideas about make air planes go faster first Pulitzer Race Mitchell Field Long Island 1920 drew huge field tired military airplanes winner Army Capt Corliss Mosely flew Verville-Packard first wonderful string military racers 157 mph wasnt quite up what Europeans doing Yanks coming 1921 Pulitzer Race entry list down few significant airplanes others clearly out conten- tion Winning flashy Bert Acosta Navy Curtiss CR-l its big V-12 en gine screaming lapped course near Omaha NE better 176 mph sudden America dis covered streamlining value great gobs cubic inches paying off speed 1922 Pulitzer Race become worlds fastest Russell Maughan US Army won classy Cur tiss R-6 better 205 mph Schneider Race still attracting modified standard flying boats went Henry Biard England Supermarine Sea Lion II just 145 mph France second series races Coupe Deutsch pitted some highly impressive European racers against other long-course race 1921 Georges Kirsch won 172 mph Nieuport-Delage sesquiplane 1922 Fernand Lasne flew similar air plane victory 180 mph good racing attracted little atten tion outside Europe thing like what would happen third Coupe Deutsch came upon scene decade later Pulitzer Trophy Race remained supreme 1923 great Al Williams winning Curtiss R2C-l 244 mph around pylon coursefaster anyone else yet flown straight line Curtiss airframes en gines top world same year David Rittenhouse pulled off Americas first Schneider Race win Curtiss CR-3 177 mph easily outrun ning everyone another CR-3 pilot 1924 Pulitzer disappoint mentfor very first time No new _____F ABCDE34 IIII II IIIII II GROSVENOR HousR 1111 EF 00 ri 6 IIIH ___II~ ---rA IJ ----0123METER IIIII DH88 COMET _______________ ______LI510FEETGROSVENOR HOUSE~ RLA%rJl Avitinn Winner 1934 MacRobertson Racea long 11333 miles London Melbourne deHaviHand deH88 Comet Grosvenor House Credit Truman Weaver collection airplanes entered some best didnt perform Burt Skeelh Cur tiss R-6 came apart during diving start leaving just three airplanes race Cyrus Bettis won Verville Sprerry R-3 racer 216 mph followed Brookley R-6 215 mph Things began pick up 1925 Pulitzer went Bettis Curtiss R3C-l 249 mph airplane fit ted set floats Schneider Race Jimmy Doolittle used win Baltimore MD 233 mph despite tremendous technical know ledge favorable publicity Army Navy gained Curtiss Racers program ended fear pilot would lost spotlight addition serious concern limit hu man endurance being approached airplanes neared 300 mph Pulitzer Race get ting lions share attention gradually become part Na tional Air Races event composed races different categories airplanes would continue long after Pulitzer become history until some 'name' trophy races created replace Pulitzer Nationals got limited attention Schneider Race other hand grew more prestigious nations pouring huge amounts money drive more speed would give more brag about 1926 Schneid er Hampton Roads VA first important win Italians Mario de Bernardi whipped around 50-km course Macchi M39 looked lot like monoplane Curtiss record 246 mph race run before tens thousands peo ple its hard keep winning formula secret 1927 Schneider Race saw British pick up Americans Italians left off producing first startling series Supermarine Racers Sidney Webster won year type S5 282 mphfaster World Speed Record held French landplane year 1928 quiet except Mario de Bernardis coup Macchi M52R seaplane racer became first human travel over 300 mph averaged 319 mph series sprints near Venice Italy sea plane achieve such speed landplanes couldnt credit sthn ulation Schneider Trophy lesser need compromise sea plane design between takeoff perform ance top speed big year fdr American air racing 1929 starting first All-Amer ican Air Races Miami mov ing National Air Races held Cleveland first time latter highlighted race 000 I AB C 4--. 0 05lOEET 0 \fI7XV&X I I 12 -- CURTISS R3C1 Thompson Cup pitting civilians against military long domi nated sport civilians Doug Davis won over GIs Travel I__________________________ E __ // 00 CAUDRON CA6O 4 rr 05 Auaust 1984 59 Left Being trundled starting line Roscoe Turners Meteor won 1938 1939 Thompson Trophy Races Credit Tru man Weaver collection Right Miles Hawk Speed Six combines sportiness comfort good flying qualities best British handicap racers among several relatively low-powered ones flown Kings Cup Thirties Credit MP Marsh collection Air Mystery racer enthusiasm backyard designers builders sparked revolution Thompson Cup became Thompson Trophy world air racing would never same end year British re inforced control over Schneid er Race Henry Waghorn flew Supermarine S6A victory 329 mph leaving own teammates far behind second disappoint ing time Al Williams tried get self-financed racer ready failed 1930 National Air Races held Chicago highlighted Speed Holmans winning Thompson Trophy Race Laird Solution 202 mph followed closely Jimmy Haizlip Travel Air 200 mph I— FABC0 NX GOON III H 0METER123 I I OFEET510 ART CHESTERS GOON crowds grew rapidly did purses soon aviations great showcase par Kentucky Derby Indianapolis 500 start air racings Golden Age 1931 National Air Races moved back Cleveland saw introduction another major event Bendix Transcontinental Derby free-for-all Los Angeles Cleve land winner Jimmy Doolittle flew new Laird Super Solution biplane 2000 miles 223 mph out supposedly-vital elec tronic aids know today 1931 Thompson Race went Lowell Bayles airplane im mediately became symobol era Gee Bee speed 236 enough edge Jimmy Wedellin No 44 Wedell-Williams 228 mph speeds well below Schneider Race seaplanes racers Cleveland homebuilts no government money behind few days after Cleveland came final race long Schneider series John Boothman winning unchal lenged 340 mph ultimate Supermarine S6B trophy became permanent possession Great Britain few days later George Stainforth used same airplane break 400 mph barrier averaged 407 mph over 3km straight course Schneider out picture spotlight shone Cleveland Jim Haizllp won 1932 Bendix 245 mph Wedell-Williams sweep event Doolittle firmed up claim air racing immortality win ning Thompson Gee Bee Super Sportster 253 mph speed record stood four years led three Wedells across finish linethe highlight Gee Bees spectacularbut-checkered career quiet European racing scene came back life 1933 yet another series races Coupe Deutsch As before French dominated time did some exciting efficient airplanes ever raced first Coupe won radial-engined Potez racer Continued page 147 60 Model Aviation EBERLES IS OUR HEADQUARTERS FOR HELJCOPTERSEBLL COMPLETE Liii OF HELICOPTERS PARTS & ACCESSORIES SW___ O COMPETiTOR PR Fully aerobatic cole new added bearings. 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original 64 entries 20 actually started grand winner mag nificent red deHavilland Comet flown Campbell-Black Scott its two straight-six Gypsy engines singing almost 71 hours predecessor Mosquito bomber averaged 159 mph win both Speed Handicap Di visions second Douglas DC-2 third Speed contest Boeing 247 flown Roscoe Turner Starting out 1935 Coupe Deutsch race France Again clean sweep Caudrons type 460s taking first three places Ray mond Delmotte winner 276 150 Model Aviation mph Yves Lacombe second 264 mph Such speed limited power ignored hotshot pilots huge crowds Cleveland would always 1935 National Air Races known Benny Howard air races fine designs won important event Ben won Bendix clean high-wing Mr Mulligan 239 mph second-fastest yet Harold Neumann took over Thompson amazed everyone winning big com fortable cross-country machine 220 mph edged Steve Wittman V-12-powered Bonzo clocked 2187 mph Neumann took control Howards little Mike won Greve Race 213 mph over Art Chester Roger Don Rae 1936 racing season didnt really get rolling until September Nationals Los Angeles Clevelands runways being paved Bendix won staggerwing Beech flown Blanche Noyes Louise Thaden slow 165 mph rules still prohibited men women racing gether around pylons no wor ried about flying across same country Thompson Greve Races shocking Bendix sleek Caudron 460s shipped over France Michael Detroyat pilot whipped Americans soundly Using small Renault engine Detroyat turned 247 mph Greve Race 20 mph faster anyone else Thompson larger Renault enabled him blow past locals win record 264 mph larger engine still less half size power Pratt & Whitney Earl Ortmans 248-mph runner-up Marcoux Bromberg racer bitter pill swallow Americans ad mit beaten own game 1936 Coupe Deutsch anti dilmax new Caudrons 450-hp V-l 2 engines ready Flying older Caudron Yves Lacomb won long race 242 mph Because great success 1934 London-Melbourne race Schle singer Race scheduled 1936 run Portsmouth England Jo hannesburg 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1 Henri Farman rounds pylon Reims France 1909 Although very first air race standards already set pylon design pylon judgingand low flyingl event ended thousands people thrilled air racing Credit Smithsonian Institution began 1909 75 years multitude planes raced have become beloved subjects modeling Especially early days racing provided impetus designing building more-efficient airplanes Part 1 covers beginning WW II SEVENTY-FIVE years ago August 1909 something spectacular hap pened Reims France took everyones mind off world-famous cathedral nearby Champagne vineyards ast few days airplaneslots themengaging orgy record setEDon Berliner ting pylon racing Nothing remotely like seen before anywhere fact hardly tens thousands spec tators including princes presidents seen single airplane propelling itself through air As several flying once almost beyond imagination After Euro pean aviation community still over shock having seen Wilbur Wright fly routinely LeMans year before brave inven tors come close real flight Left The splendid grandstands Reims first air race T-shirts showing souped-up Mustangs yet vogue Credit Smithsonian Institution Right Mr Mulligan really big Monocoupe won 1936 Bendix Thompson Races despite its size Credit Truman Weaver Aiiaijt QR4 5 Left Lester Maitland Curtiss R-6 2nd 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race Right Johnny Livingston clipped-wing Monocoupe tough beat races limited-displacement engines Airplanes era great modeling Both Truman Weaver collection covered grandstands place Reims-Champagne huge scoreboard erected checkered py ions set corners 5km 31 mL rectangular course park ing lot crammed magnificent old heaps would turn modern tique car buff chartreuse envy Everything other words ready worlds first air race Except first mat ter mud dealt everywhere thanks hours heavy rain Cars people squished through ankle-deep slime werent hiding yet another down pour come out droves stayedwaiting something happen something sup posed airplanes racing around aerial racetrack first time history afternoon Saturday August 22 particularly heavy storm hit blew through leaving air clear calm time trials select French team coming Gordon Bennett Trophy Race short order seven airplanes aloft what journalist called wonderful un precedented spectacle crowd awed sight airplanes climbing high above field altitude records rattling way around race course speed tests struggling back forth set dur ation distance marks new strange yet working flying machine little rumor minds people suddenly become something could seen heard smelled end historic air meet thousands people become famil iar sight airplanes charging around pylon-marked course Air rac ing thus born plains Beth eny die cast threequarters century marvelous flying premiere event Reims 1909 James Gordon Bennett Trophy presented publishing baron saw air racing sport could Fl LEFT WING UNDER SIDE 0 5 -IABCD 3METER H 1 0r EE ABC UI NOSE DETAIL rdI Aviation DEPERDUSSIN 1913 Left Ben Howards Mike series highly successful racers won its share trophies Cleveland smaller meets Right Jimmy Wedell great Wedell-Williams racers Cleveland wins early 30s Both Truman Weaver boost aviation l newspapers winner first big race American field pioneer builder Glenn Curtiss flying Reims Racer flew two laps course 15 mm 506 sec average blazing 471 mph Next fastest Louis Bleriot 468 mph may have very fast certainly close thats what makes kind racing fun Gordon Bennett quickly became first air racings classic trophies 1912 inspiring design real racing planes first attract international attention Deperdussins France 1913 Dep trim monoplane bullet-shaped nose enclosing 160-hp Gnome rotary engine Maurice Prevost flew win years race world record speed 127 mph though American won first series thus second race held US French domi nated speed flying prior World War including inaugural Schneider Trophy Race Monaco 1913 Pre yost won float-equipped Deperdussin final prewar Schneider went Briton Howard Pixton flew Sopwith Tabloid 86 mph World War ended speed flying racing picked up left off Using considerable technical knowledge gained during war sudden increase speed first postwar Gordon Bennet Race won French speed pilot Sadi Lecointe flying Nieuport-Delage 29V better 168 mph suddenly end Gordon Bennett Trophy Race airplanes French won three times row trophy keep Schneider Races continued slowly gained international stature 1919 race bust because persis / if1 7 II IAB / PH NOSE DETAIL 0 05 I. 0 GLOSTER IB 1927 Aaric 1 iR4 7 10rE E T 123METER tent fog 1920 race single finisher Luigi Bologna Ital ian Savoja S12 flying boat 106 mph 1921 almost same thing hap pened Giovanni de Briganti pilot complete course Macchi M7 118mph America slow awaken po tential airplane after having vented things started move 1920s dawned Joseph Pulitzer another newspaper publisher offered trophy name open types air planes got lot attention triggered some very clever work men ideas about make air planes go faster first Pulitzer Race Mitchell Field Long Island 1920 drew huge field tired military airplanes winner Army Capt Corliss Mosely flew Verville-Packard first wonderful string military racers 157 mph wasnt quite up what Europeans doing Yanks coming 1921 Pulitzer Race entry list down few significant airplanes others clearly out conten- tion Winning flashy Bert Acosta Navy Curtiss CR-l its big V-12 en gine screaming lapped course near Omaha NE better 176 mph sudden America dis covered streamlining value great gobs cubic inches paying off speed 1922 Pulitzer Race become worlds fastest Russell Maughan US Army won classy Cur tiss R-6 better 205 mph Schneider Race still attracting modified standard flying boats went Henry Biard England Supermarine Sea Lion II just 145 mph France second series races Coupe Deutsch pitted some highly impressive European racers against other long-course race 1921 Georges Kirsch won 172 mph Nieuport-Delage sesquiplane 1922 Fernand Lasne flew similar air plane victory 180 mph good racing attracted little atten tion outside Europe thing like what would happen third Coupe Deutsch came upon scene decade later Pulitzer Trophy Race remained supreme 1923 great Al Williams winning Curtiss R2C-l 244 mph around pylon coursefaster anyone else yet flown straight line Curtiss airframes en gines top world same year David Rittenhouse pulled off Americas first Schneider Race win Curtiss CR-3 177 mph easily outrun ning everyone another CR-3 pilot 1924 Pulitzer disappoint mentfor very first time No new _____F ABCDE34 IIII II IIIII II GROSVENOR HousR 1111 EF 00 ri 6 IIIH ___II~ ---rA IJ ----0123METER IIIII DH88 COMET _______________ ______LI510FEETGROSVENOR HOUSE~ RLA%rJl Avitinn Winner 1934 MacRobertson Racea long 11333 miles London Melbourne deHaviHand deH88 Comet Grosvenor House Credit Truman Weaver collection airplanes entered some best didnt perform Burt Skeelh Cur tiss R-6 came apart during diving start leaving just three airplanes race Cyrus Bettis won Verville Sprerry R-3 racer 216 mph followed Brookley R-6 215 mph Things began pick up 1925 Pulitzer went Bettis Curtiss R3C-l 249 mph airplane fit ted set floats Schneider Race Jimmy Doolittle used win Baltimore MD 233 mph despite tremendous technical know ledge favorable publicity Army Navy gained Curtiss Racers program ended fear pilot would lost spotlight addition serious concern limit hu man endurance being approached airplanes neared 300 mph Pulitzer Race get ting lions share attention gradually become part Na tional Air Races event composed races different categories airplanes would continue long after Pulitzer become history until some 'name' trophy races created replace Pulitzer Nationals got limited attention Schneider Race other hand grew more prestigious nations pouring huge amounts money drive more speed would give more brag about 1926 Schneid er Hampton Roads VA first important win Italians Mario de Bernardi whipped around 50-km course Macchi M39 looked lot like monoplane Curtiss record 246 mph race run before tens thousands peo ple its hard keep winning formula secret 1927 Schneider Race saw British pick up Americans Italians left off producing first startling series Supermarine Racers Sidney Webster won year type S5 282 mphfaster World Speed Record held French landplane year 1928 quiet except Mario de Bernardis coup Macchi M52R seaplane racer became first human travel over 300 mph averaged 319 mph series sprints near Venice Italy sea plane achieve such speed landplanes couldnt credit sthn ulation Schneider Trophy lesser need compromise sea plane design between takeoff perform ance top speed big year fdr American air racing 1929 starting first All-Amer ican Air Races Miami mov ing National Air Races held Cleveland first time latter highlighted race 000 I AB C 4--. 0 05lOEET 0 \fI7XV&X I I 12 -- CURTISS R3C1 Thompson Cup pitting civilians against military long domi nated sport civilians Doug Davis won over GIs Travel I__________________________ E __ // 00 CAUDRON CA6O 4 rr 05 Auaust 1984 59 Left Being trundled starting line Roscoe Turners Meteor won 1938 1939 Thompson Trophy Races Credit Tru man Weaver collection Right Miles Hawk Speed Six combines sportiness comfort good flying qualities best British handicap racers among several relatively low-powered ones flown Kings Cup Thirties Credit MP Marsh collection Air Mystery racer enthusiasm backyard designers builders sparked revolution Thompson Cup became Thompson Trophy world air racing would never same end year British re inforced control over Schneid er Race Henry Waghorn flew Supermarine S6A victory 329 mph leaving own teammates far behind second disappoint ing time Al Williams tried get self-financed racer ready failed 1930 National Air Races held Chicago highlighted Speed Holmans winning Thompson Trophy Race Laird Solution 202 mph followed closely Jimmy Haizlip Travel Air 200 mph I— FABC0 NX GOON III H 0METER123 I I OFEET510 ART CHESTERS GOON crowds grew rapidly did purses soon aviations great showcase par Kentucky Derby Indianapolis 500 start air racings Golden Age 1931 National Air Races moved back Cleveland saw introduction another major event Bendix Transcontinental Derby free-for-all Los Angeles Cleve land winner Jimmy Doolittle flew new Laird Super Solution biplane 2000 miles 223 mph out supposedly-vital elec tronic aids know today 1931 Thompson Race went Lowell Bayles airplane im mediately became symobol era Gee Bee speed 236 enough edge Jimmy Wedellin No 44 Wedell-Williams 228 mph speeds well below Schneider Race seaplanes racers Cleveland homebuilts no government money behind few days after Cleveland came final race long Schneider series John Boothman winning unchal lenged 340 mph ultimate Supermarine S6B trophy became permanent possession Great Britain few days later George Stainforth used same airplane break 400 mph barrier averaged 407 mph over 3km straight course Schneider out picture spotlight shone Cleveland Jim Haizllp won 1932 Bendix 245 mph Wedell-Williams sweep event Doolittle firmed up claim air racing immortality win ning Thompson Gee Bee Super Sportster 253 mph speed record stood four years led three Wedells across finish linethe highlight Gee Bees spectacularbut-checkered career quiet European racing scene came back life 1933 yet another series races Coupe Deutsch As before French dominated time did some exciting efficient airplanes ever raced first Coupe won radial-engined Potez racer Continued page 147 60 Model Aviation EBERLES IS OUR HEADQUARTERS FOR HELJCOPTERSEBLL COMPLETE Liii OF HELICOPTERS PARTS & ACCESSORIES SW___ O COMPETiTOR PR Fully aerobatic cole new added bearings. 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original 64 entries 20 actually started grand winner mag nificent red deHavilland Comet flown Campbell-Black Scott its two straight-six Gypsy engines singing almost 71 hours predecessor Mosquito bomber averaged 159 mph win both Speed Handicap Di visions second Douglas DC-2 third Speed contest Boeing 247 flown Roscoe Turner Starting out 1935 Coupe Deutsch race France Again clean sweep Caudrons type 460s taking first three places Ray mond Delmotte winner 276 150 Model Aviation mph Yves Lacombe second 264 mph Such speed limited power ignored hotshot pilots huge crowds Cleveland would always 1935 National Air Races known Benny Howard air races fine designs won important event Ben won Bendix clean high-wing Mr Mulligan 239 mph second-fastest yet Harold Neumann took over Thompson amazed everyone winning big com fortable cross-country machine 220 mph edged Steve Wittman V-12-powered Bonzo clocked 2187 mph Neumann took control Howards little Mike won Greve Race 213 mph over Art Chester Roger Don Rae 1936 racing season didnt really get rolling until September Nationals Los Angeles Clevelands runways being paved Bendix won staggerwing Beech flown Blanche Noyes Louise Thaden slow 165 mph rules still prohibited men women racing gether around pylons no wor ried about flying across same country Thompson Greve Races shocking Bendix sleek Caudron 460s shipped over France Michael Detroyat pilot whipped Americans soundly Using small Renault engine Detroyat turned 247 mph Greve Race 20 mph faster anyone else Thompson larger Renault enabled him blow past locals win record 264 mph larger engine still less half size power Pratt & Whitney Earl Ortmans 248-mph runner-up Marcoux Bromberg racer bitter pill swallow Americans ad mit beaten own game 1936 Coupe Deutsch anti dilmax new Caudrons 450-hp V-l 2 engines ready Flying older Caudron Yves Lacomb won long race 242 mph Because great success 1934 London-Melbourne race Schle singer Race scheduled 1936 run Portsmouth England Jo hannesburg 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1 Henri Farman rounds pylon Reims France 1909 Although very first air race standards already set pylon design pylon judgingand low flyingl event ended thousands people thrilled air racing Credit Smithsonian Institution began 1909 75 years multitude planes raced have become beloved subjects modeling Especially early days racing provided impetus designing building more-efficient airplanes Part 1 covers beginning WW II SEVENTY-FIVE years ago August 1909 something spectacular hap pened Reims France took everyones mind off world-famous cathedral nearby Champagne vineyards ast few days airplaneslots themengaging orgy record setEDon Berliner ting pylon racing Nothing remotely like seen before anywhere fact hardly tens thousands spec tators including princes presidents seen single airplane propelling itself through air As several flying once almost beyond imagination After Euro pean aviation community still over shock having seen Wilbur Wright fly routinely LeMans year before brave inven tors come close real flight Left The splendid grandstands Reims first air race T-shirts showing souped-up Mustangs yet vogue Credit Smithsonian Institution Right Mr Mulligan really big Monocoupe won 1936 Bendix Thompson Races despite its size Credit Truman Weaver Aiiaijt QR4 5 Left Lester Maitland Curtiss R-6 2nd 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race Right Johnny Livingston clipped-wing Monocoupe tough beat races limited-displacement engines Airplanes era great modeling Both Truman Weaver collection covered grandstands place Reims-Champagne huge scoreboard erected checkered py ions set corners 5km 31 mL rectangular course park ing lot crammed magnificent old heaps would turn modern tique car buff chartreuse envy Everything other words ready worlds first air race Except first mat ter mud dealt everywhere thanks hours heavy rain Cars people squished through ankle-deep slime werent hiding yet another down pour come out droves stayedwaiting something happen something sup posed airplanes racing around aerial racetrack first time history afternoon Saturday August 22 particularly heavy storm hit blew through leaving air clear calm time trials select French team coming Gordon Bennett Trophy Race short order seven airplanes aloft what journalist called wonderful un precedented spectacle crowd awed sight airplanes climbing high above field altitude records rattling way around race course speed tests struggling back forth set dur ation distance marks new strange yet working flying machine little rumor minds people suddenly become something could seen heard smelled end historic air meet thousands people become famil iar sight airplanes charging around pylon-marked course Air rac ing thus born plains Beth eny die cast threequarters century marvelous flying premiere event Reims 1909 James Gordon Bennett Trophy presented publishing baron saw air racing sport could Fl LEFT WING UNDER SIDE 0 5 -IABCD 3METER H 1 0r EE ABC UI NOSE DETAIL rdI Aviation DEPERDUSSIN 1913 Left Ben Howards Mike series highly successful racers won its share trophies Cleveland smaller meets Right Jimmy Wedell great Wedell-Williams racers Cleveland wins early 30s Both Truman Weaver boost aviation l newspapers winner first big race American field pioneer builder Glenn Curtiss flying Reims Racer flew two laps course 15 mm 506 sec average blazing 471 mph Next fastest Louis Bleriot 468 mph may have very fast certainly close thats what makes kind racing fun Gordon Bennett quickly became first air racings classic trophies 1912 inspiring design real racing planes first attract international attention Deperdussins France 1913 Dep trim monoplane bullet-shaped nose enclosing 160-hp Gnome rotary engine Maurice Prevost flew win years race world record speed 127 mph though American won first series thus second race held US French domi nated speed flying prior World War including inaugural Schneider Trophy Race Monaco 1913 Pre yost won float-equipped Deperdussin final prewar Schneider went Briton Howard Pixton flew Sopwith Tabloid 86 mph World War ended speed flying racing picked up left off Using considerable technical knowledge gained during war sudden increase speed first postwar Gordon Bennet Race won French speed pilot Sadi Lecointe flying Nieuport-Delage 29V better 168 mph suddenly end Gordon Bennett Trophy Race airplanes French won three times row trophy keep Schneider Races continued slowly gained international stature 1919 race bust because persis / if1 7 II IAB / PH NOSE DETAIL 0 05 I. 0 GLOSTER IB 1927 Aaric 1 iR4 7 10rE E T 123METER tent fog 1920 race single finisher Luigi Bologna Ital ian Savoja S12 flying boat 106 mph 1921 almost same thing hap pened Giovanni de Briganti pilot complete course Macchi M7 118mph America slow awaken po tential airplane after having vented things started move 1920s dawned Joseph Pulitzer another newspaper publisher offered trophy name open types air planes got lot attention triggered some very clever work men ideas about make air planes go faster first Pulitzer Race Mitchell Field Long Island 1920 drew huge field tired military airplanes winner Army Capt Corliss Mosely flew Verville-Packard first wonderful string military racers 157 mph wasnt quite up what Europeans doing Yanks coming 1921 Pulitzer Race entry list down few significant airplanes others clearly out conten- tion Winning flashy Bert Acosta Navy Curtiss CR-l its big V-12 en gine screaming lapped course near Omaha NE better 176 mph sudden America dis covered streamlining value great gobs cubic inches paying off speed 1922 Pulitzer Race become worlds fastest Russell Maughan US Army won classy Cur tiss R-6 better 205 mph Schneider Race still attracting modified standard flying boats went Henry Biard England Supermarine Sea Lion II just 145 mph France second series races Coupe Deutsch pitted some highly impressive European racers against other long-course race 1921 Georges Kirsch won 172 mph Nieuport-Delage sesquiplane 1922 Fernand Lasne flew similar air plane victory 180 mph good racing attracted little atten tion outside Europe thing like what would happen third Coupe Deutsch came upon scene decade later Pulitzer Trophy Race remained supreme 1923 great Al Williams winning Curtiss R2C-l 244 mph around pylon coursefaster anyone else yet flown straight line Curtiss airframes en gines top world same year David Rittenhouse pulled off Americas first Schneider Race win Curtiss CR-3 177 mph easily outrun ning everyone another CR-3 pilot 1924 Pulitzer disappoint mentfor very first time No new _____F ABCDE34 IIII II IIIII II GROSVENOR HousR 1111 EF 00 ri 6 IIIH ___II~ ---rA IJ ----0123METER IIIII DH88 COMET _______________ ______LI510FEETGROSVENOR HOUSE~ RLA%rJl Avitinn Winner 1934 MacRobertson Racea long 11333 miles London Melbourne deHaviHand deH88 Comet Grosvenor House Credit Truman Weaver collection airplanes entered some best didnt perform Burt Skeelh Cur tiss R-6 came apart during diving start leaving just three airplanes race Cyrus Bettis won Verville Sprerry R-3 racer 216 mph followed Brookley R-6 215 mph Things began pick up 1925 Pulitzer went Bettis Curtiss R3C-l 249 mph airplane fit ted set floats Schneider Race Jimmy Doolittle used win Baltimore MD 233 mph despite tremendous technical know ledge favorable publicity Army Navy gained Curtiss Racers program ended fear pilot would lost spotlight addition serious concern limit hu man endurance being approached airplanes neared 300 mph Pulitzer Race get ting lions share attention gradually become part Na tional Air Races event composed races different categories airplanes would continue long after Pulitzer become history until some 'name' trophy races created replace Pulitzer Nationals got limited attention Schneider Race other hand grew more prestigious nations pouring huge amounts money drive more speed would give more brag about 1926 Schneid er Hampton Roads VA first important win Italians Mario de Bernardi whipped around 50-km course Macchi M39 looked lot like monoplane Curtiss record 246 mph race run before tens thousands peo ple its hard keep winning formula secret 1927 Schneider Race saw British pick up Americans Italians left off producing first startling series Supermarine Racers Sidney Webster won year type S5 282 mphfaster World Speed Record held French landplane year 1928 quiet except Mario de Bernardis coup Macchi M52R seaplane racer became first human travel over 300 mph averaged 319 mph series sprints near Venice Italy sea plane achieve such speed landplanes couldnt credit sthn ulation Schneider Trophy lesser need compromise sea plane design between takeoff perform ance top speed big year fdr American air racing 1929 starting first All-Amer ican Air Races Miami mov ing National Air Races held Cleveland first time latter highlighted race 000 I AB C 4--. 0 05lOEET 0 \fI7XV&X I I 12 -- CURTISS R3C1 Thompson Cup pitting civilians against military long domi nated sport civilians Doug Davis won over GIs Travel I__________________________ E __ // 00 CAUDRON CA6O 4 rr 05 Auaust 1984 59 Left Being trundled starting line Roscoe Turners Meteor won 1938 1939 Thompson Trophy Races Credit Tru man Weaver collection Right Miles Hawk Speed Six combines sportiness comfort good flying qualities best British handicap racers among several relatively low-powered ones flown Kings Cup Thirties Credit MP Marsh collection Air Mystery racer enthusiasm backyard designers builders sparked revolution Thompson Cup became Thompson Trophy world air racing would never same end year British re inforced control over Schneid er Race Henry Waghorn flew Supermarine S6A victory 329 mph leaving own teammates far behind second disappoint ing time Al Williams tried get self-financed racer ready failed 1930 National Air Races held Chicago highlighted Speed Holmans winning Thompson Trophy Race Laird Solution 202 mph followed closely Jimmy Haizlip Travel Air 200 mph I— FABC0 NX GOON III H 0METER123 I I OFEET510 ART CHESTERS GOON crowds grew rapidly did purses soon aviations great showcase par Kentucky Derby Indianapolis 500 start air racings Golden Age 1931 National Air Races moved back Cleveland saw introduction another major event Bendix Transcontinental Derby free-for-all Los Angeles Cleve land winner Jimmy Doolittle flew new Laird Super Solution biplane 2000 miles 223 mph out supposedly-vital elec tronic aids know today 1931 Thompson Race went Lowell Bayles airplane im mediately became symobol era Gee Bee speed 236 enough edge Jimmy Wedellin No 44 Wedell-Williams 228 mph speeds well below Schneider Race seaplanes racers Cleveland homebuilts no government money behind few days after Cleveland came final race long Schneider series John Boothman winning unchal lenged 340 mph ultimate Supermarine S6B trophy became permanent possession Great Britain few days later George Stainforth used same airplane break 400 mph barrier averaged 407 mph over 3km straight course Schneider out picture spotlight shone Cleveland Jim Haizllp won 1932 Bendix 245 mph Wedell-Williams sweep event Doolittle firmed up claim air racing immortality win ning Thompson Gee Bee Super Sportster 253 mph speed record stood four years led three Wedells across finish linethe highlight Gee Bees spectacularbut-checkered career quiet European racing scene came back life 1933 yet another series races Coupe Deutsch As before French dominated time did some exciting efficient airplanes ever raced first Coupe won radial-engined Potez racer Continued page 147 60 Model Aviation EBERLES IS OUR HEADQUARTERS FOR HELJCOPTERSEBLL COMPLETE Liii OF HELICOPTERS PARTS & ACCESSORIES SW___ O COMPETiTOR PR Fully aerobatic cole new added bearings. 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original 64 entries 20 actually started grand winner mag nificent red deHavilland Comet flown Campbell-Black Scott its two straight-six Gypsy engines singing almost 71 hours predecessor Mosquito bomber averaged 159 mph win both Speed Handicap Di visions second Douglas DC-2 third Speed contest Boeing 247 flown Roscoe Turner Starting out 1935 Coupe Deutsch race France Again clean sweep Caudrons type 460s taking first three places Ray mond Delmotte winner 276 150 Model Aviation mph Yves Lacombe second 264 mph Such speed limited power ignored hotshot pilots huge crowds Cleveland would always 1935 National Air Races known Benny Howard air races fine designs won important event Ben won Bendix clean high-wing Mr Mulligan 239 mph second-fastest yet Harold Neumann took over Thompson amazed everyone winning big com fortable cross-country machine 220 mph edged Steve Wittman V-12-powered Bonzo clocked 2187 mph Neumann took control Howards little Mike won Greve Race 213 mph over Art Chester Roger Don Rae 1936 racing season didnt really get rolling until September Nationals Los Angeles Clevelands runways being paved Bendix won staggerwing Beech flown Blanche Noyes Louise Thaden slow 165 mph rules still prohibited men women racing gether around pylons no wor ried about flying across same country Thompson Greve Races shocking Bendix sleek Caudron 460s shipped over France Michael Detroyat pilot whipped Americans soundly Using small Renault engine Detroyat turned 247 mph Greve Race 20 mph faster anyone else Thompson larger Renault enabled him blow past locals win record 264 mph larger engine still less half size power Pratt & Whitney Earl Ortmans 248-mph runner-up Marcoux Bromberg racer bitter pill swallow Americans ad mit beaten own game 1936 Coupe Deutsch anti dilmax new Caudrons 450-hp V-l 2 engines ready Flying older Caudron Yves Lacomb won long race 242 mph Because great success 1934 London-Melbourne race Schle singer Race scheduled 1936 run Portsmouth England Jo hannesburg 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1 Henri Farman rounds pylon Reims France 1909 Although very first air race standards already set pylon design pylon judgingand low flyingl event ended thousands people thrilled air racing Credit Smithsonian Institution began 1909 75 years multitude planes raced have become beloved subjects modeling Especially early days racing provided impetus designing building more-efficient airplanes Part 1 covers beginning WW II SEVENTY-FIVE years ago August 1909 something spectacular hap pened Reims France took everyones mind off world-famous cathedral nearby Champagne vineyards ast few days airplaneslots themengaging orgy record setEDon Berliner ting pylon racing Nothing remotely like seen before anywhere fact hardly tens thousands spec tators including princes presidents seen single airplane propelling itself through air As several flying once almost beyond imagination After Euro pean aviation community still over shock having seen Wilbur Wright fly routinely LeMans year before brave inven tors come close real flight Left The splendid grandstands Reims first air race T-shirts showing souped-up Mustangs yet vogue Credit Smithsonian Institution Right Mr Mulligan really big Monocoupe won 1936 Bendix Thompson Races despite its size Credit Truman Weaver Aiiaijt QR4 5 Left Lester Maitland Curtiss R-6 2nd 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race Right Johnny Livingston clipped-wing Monocoupe tough beat races limited-displacement engines Airplanes era great modeling Both Truman Weaver collection covered grandstands place Reims-Champagne huge scoreboard erected checkered py ions set corners 5km 31 mL rectangular course park ing lot crammed magnificent old heaps would turn modern tique car buff chartreuse envy Everything other words ready worlds first air race Except first mat ter mud dealt everywhere thanks hours heavy rain Cars people squished through ankle-deep slime werent hiding yet another down pour come out droves stayedwaiting something happen something sup posed airplanes racing around aerial racetrack first time history afternoon Saturday August 22 particularly heavy storm hit blew through leaving air clear calm time trials select French team coming Gordon Bennett Trophy Race short order seven airplanes aloft what journalist called wonderful un precedented spectacle crowd awed sight airplanes climbing high above field altitude records rattling way around race course speed tests struggling back forth set dur ation distance marks new strange yet working flying machine little rumor minds people suddenly become something could seen heard smelled end historic air meet thousands people become famil iar sight airplanes charging around pylon-marked course Air rac ing thus born plains Beth eny die cast threequarters century marvelous flying premiere event Reims 1909 James Gordon Bennett Trophy presented publishing baron saw air racing sport could Fl LEFT WING UNDER SIDE 0 5 -IABCD 3METER H 1 0r EE ABC UI NOSE DETAIL rdI Aviation DEPERDUSSIN 1913 Left Ben Howards Mike series highly successful racers won its share trophies Cleveland smaller meets Right Jimmy Wedell great Wedell-Williams racers Cleveland wins early 30s Both Truman Weaver boost aviation l newspapers winner first big race American field pioneer builder Glenn Curtiss flying Reims Racer flew two laps course 15 mm 506 sec average blazing 471 mph Next fastest Louis Bleriot 468 mph may have very fast certainly close thats what makes kind racing fun Gordon Bennett quickly became first air racings classic trophies 1912 inspiring design real racing planes first attract international attention Deperdussins France 1913 Dep trim monoplane bullet-shaped nose enclosing 160-hp Gnome rotary engine Maurice Prevost flew win years race world record speed 127 mph though American won first series thus second race held US French domi nated speed flying prior World War including inaugural Schneider Trophy Race Monaco 1913 Pre yost won float-equipped Deperdussin final prewar Schneider went Briton Howard Pixton flew Sopwith Tabloid 86 mph World War ended speed flying racing picked up left off Using considerable technical knowledge gained during war sudden increase speed first postwar Gordon Bennet Race won French speed pilot Sadi Lecointe flying Nieuport-Delage 29V better 168 mph suddenly end Gordon Bennett Trophy Race airplanes French won three times row trophy keep Schneider Races continued slowly gained international stature 1919 race bust because persis / if1 7 II IAB / PH NOSE DETAIL 0 05 I. 0 GLOSTER IB 1927 Aaric 1 iR4 7 10rE E T 123METER tent fog 1920 race single finisher Luigi Bologna Ital ian Savoja S12 flying boat 106 mph 1921 almost same thing hap pened Giovanni de Briganti pilot complete course Macchi M7 118mph America slow awaken po tential airplane after having vented things started move 1920s dawned Joseph Pulitzer another newspaper publisher offered trophy name open types air planes got lot attention triggered some very clever work men ideas about make air planes go faster first Pulitzer Race Mitchell Field Long Island 1920 drew huge field tired military airplanes winner Army Capt Corliss Mosely flew Verville-Packard first wonderful string military racers 157 mph wasnt quite up what Europeans doing Yanks coming 1921 Pulitzer Race entry list down few significant airplanes others clearly out conten- tion Winning flashy Bert Acosta Navy Curtiss CR-l its big V-12 en gine screaming lapped course near Omaha NE better 176 mph sudden America dis covered streamlining value great gobs cubic inches paying off speed 1922 Pulitzer Race become worlds fastest Russell Maughan US Army won classy Cur tiss R-6 better 205 mph Schneider Race still attracting modified standard flying boats went Henry Biard England Supermarine Sea Lion II just 145 mph France second series races Coupe Deutsch pitted some highly impressive European racers against other long-course race 1921 Georges Kirsch won 172 mph Nieuport-Delage sesquiplane 1922 Fernand Lasne flew similar air plane victory 180 mph good racing attracted little atten tion outside Europe thing like what would happen third Coupe Deutsch came upon scene decade later Pulitzer Trophy Race remained supreme 1923 great Al Williams winning Curtiss R2C-l 244 mph around pylon coursefaster anyone else yet flown straight line Curtiss airframes en gines top world same year David Rittenhouse pulled off Americas first Schneider Race win Curtiss CR-3 177 mph easily outrun ning everyone another CR-3 pilot 1924 Pulitzer disappoint mentfor very first time No new _____F ABCDE34 IIII II IIIII II GROSVENOR HousR 1111 EF 00 ri 6 IIIH ___II~ ---rA IJ ----0123METER IIIII DH88 COMET _______________ ______LI510FEETGROSVENOR HOUSE~ RLA%rJl Avitinn Winner 1934 MacRobertson Racea long 11333 miles London Melbourne deHaviHand deH88 Comet Grosvenor House Credit Truman Weaver collection airplanes entered some best didnt perform Burt Skeelh Cur tiss R-6 came apart during diving start leaving just three airplanes race Cyrus Bettis won Verville Sprerry R-3 racer 216 mph followed Brookley R-6 215 mph Things began pick up 1925 Pulitzer went Bettis Curtiss R3C-l 249 mph airplane fit ted set floats Schneider Race Jimmy Doolittle used win Baltimore MD 233 mph despite tremendous technical know ledge favorable publicity Army Navy gained Curtiss Racers program ended fear pilot would lost spotlight addition serious concern limit hu man endurance being approached airplanes neared 300 mph Pulitzer Race get ting lions share attention gradually become part Na tional Air Races event composed races different categories airplanes would continue long after Pulitzer become history until some 'name' trophy races created replace Pulitzer Nationals got limited attention Schneider Race other hand grew more prestigious nations pouring huge amounts money drive more speed would give more brag about 1926 Schneid er Hampton Roads VA first important win Italians Mario de Bernardi whipped around 50-km course Macchi M39 looked lot like monoplane Curtiss record 246 mph race run before tens thousands peo ple its hard keep winning formula secret 1927 Schneider Race saw British pick up Americans Italians left off producing first startling series Supermarine Racers Sidney Webster won year type S5 282 mphfaster World Speed Record held French landplane year 1928 quiet except Mario de Bernardis coup Macchi M52R seaplane racer became first human travel over 300 mph averaged 319 mph series sprints near Venice Italy sea plane achieve such speed landplanes couldnt credit sthn ulation Schneider Trophy lesser need compromise sea plane design between takeoff perform ance top speed big year fdr American air racing 1929 starting first All-Amer ican Air Races Miami mov ing National Air Races held Cleveland first time latter highlighted race 000 I AB C 4--. 0 05lOEET 0 \fI7XV&X I I 12 -- CURTISS R3C1 Thompson Cup pitting civilians against military long domi nated sport civilians Doug Davis won over GIs Travel I__________________________ E __ // 00 CAUDRON CA6O 4 rr 05 Auaust 1984 59 Left Being trundled starting line Roscoe Turners Meteor won 1938 1939 Thompson Trophy Races Credit Tru man Weaver collection Right Miles Hawk Speed Six combines sportiness comfort good flying qualities best British handicap racers among several relatively low-powered ones flown Kings Cup Thirties Credit MP Marsh collection Air Mystery racer enthusiasm backyard designers builders sparked revolution Thompson Cup became Thompson Trophy world air racing would never same end year British re inforced control over Schneid er Race Henry Waghorn flew Supermarine S6A victory 329 mph leaving own teammates far behind second disappoint ing time Al Williams tried get self-financed racer ready failed 1930 National Air Races held Chicago highlighted Speed Holmans winning Thompson Trophy Race Laird Solution 202 mph followed closely Jimmy Haizlip Travel Air 200 mph I— FABC0 NX GOON III H 0METER123 I I OFEET510 ART CHESTERS GOON crowds grew rapidly did purses soon aviations great showcase par Kentucky Derby Indianapolis 500 start air racings Golden Age 1931 National Air Races moved back Cleveland saw introduction another major event Bendix Transcontinental Derby free-for-all Los Angeles Cleve land winner Jimmy Doolittle flew new Laird Super Solution biplane 2000 miles 223 mph out supposedly-vital elec tronic aids know today 1931 Thompson Race went Lowell Bayles airplane im mediately became symobol era Gee Bee speed 236 enough edge Jimmy Wedellin No 44 Wedell-Williams 228 mph speeds well below Schneider Race seaplanes racers Cleveland homebuilts no government money behind few days after Cleveland came final race long Schneider series John Boothman winning unchal lenged 340 mph ultimate Supermarine S6B trophy became permanent possession Great Britain few days later George Stainforth used same airplane break 400 mph barrier averaged 407 mph over 3km straight course Schneider out picture spotlight shone Cleveland Jim Haizllp won 1932 Bendix 245 mph Wedell-Williams sweep event Doolittle firmed up claim air racing immortality win ning Thompson Gee Bee Super Sportster 253 mph speed record stood four years led three Wedells across finish linethe highlight Gee Bees spectacularbut-checkered career quiet European racing scene came back life 1933 yet another series races Coupe Deutsch As before French dominated time did some exciting efficient airplanes ever raced first Coupe won radial-engined Potez racer Continued page 147 60 Model Aviation EBERLES IS OUR HEADQUARTERS FOR HELJCOPTERSEBLL COMPLETE Liii OF HELICOPTERS PARTS & ACCESSORIES SW___ O COMPETiTOR PR Fully aerobatic cole new added bearings. 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original 64 entries 20 actually started grand winner mag nificent red deHavilland Comet flown Campbell-Black Scott its two straight-six Gypsy engines singing almost 71 hours predecessor Mosquito bomber averaged 159 mph win both Speed Handicap Di visions second Douglas DC-2 third Speed contest Boeing 247 flown Roscoe Turner Starting out 1935 Coupe Deutsch race France Again clean sweep Caudrons type 460s taking first three places Ray mond Delmotte winner 276 150 Model Aviation mph Yves Lacombe second 264 mph Such speed limited power ignored hotshot pilots huge crowds Cleveland would always 1935 National Air Races known Benny Howard air races fine designs won important event Ben won Bendix clean high-wing Mr Mulligan 239 mph second-fastest yet Harold Neumann took over Thompson amazed everyone winning big com fortable cross-country machine 220 mph edged Steve Wittman V-12-powered Bonzo clocked 2187 mph Neumann took control Howards little Mike won Greve Race 213 mph over Art Chester Roger Don Rae 1936 racing season didnt really get rolling until September Nationals Los Angeles Clevelands runways being paved Bendix won staggerwing Beech flown Blanche Noyes Louise Thaden slow 165 mph rules still prohibited men women racing gether around pylons no wor ried about flying across same country Thompson Greve Races shocking Bendix sleek Caudron 460s shipped over France Michael Detroyat pilot whipped Americans soundly Using small Renault engine Detroyat turned 247 mph Greve Race 20 mph faster anyone else Thompson larger Renault enabled him blow past locals win record 264 mph larger engine still less half size power Pratt & Whitney Earl Ortmans 248-mph runner-up Marcoux Bromberg racer bitter pill swallow Americans ad mit beaten own game 1936 Coupe Deutsch anti dilmax new Caudrons 450-hp V-l 2 engines ready Flying older Caudron Yves Lacomb won long race 242 mph Because great success 1934 London-Melbourne race Schle singer Race scheduled 1936 run Portsmouth England Jo hannesburg 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1 Henri Farman rounds pylon Reims France 1909 Although very first air race standards already set pylon design pylon judgingand low flyingl event ended thousands people thrilled air racing Credit Smithsonian Institution began 1909 75 years multitude planes raced have become beloved subjects modeling Especially early days racing provided impetus designing building more-efficient airplanes Part 1 covers beginning WW II SEVENTY-FIVE years ago August 1909 something spectacular hap pened Reims France took everyones mind off world-famous cathedral nearby Champagne vineyards ast few days airplaneslots themengaging orgy record setEDon Berliner ting pylon racing Nothing remotely like seen before anywhere fact hardly tens thousands spec tators including princes presidents seen single airplane propelling itself through air As several flying once almost beyond imagination After Euro pean aviation community still over shock having seen Wilbur Wright fly routinely LeMans year before brave inven tors come close real flight Left The splendid grandstands Reims first air race T-shirts showing souped-up Mustangs yet vogue Credit Smithsonian Institution Right Mr Mulligan really big Monocoupe won 1936 Bendix Thompson Races despite its size Credit Truman Weaver Aiiaijt QR4 5 Left Lester Maitland Curtiss R-6 2nd 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race Right Johnny Livingston clipped-wing Monocoupe tough beat races limited-displacement engines Airplanes era great modeling Both Truman Weaver collection covered grandstands place Reims-Champagne huge scoreboard erected checkered py ions set corners 5km 31 mL rectangular course park ing lot crammed magnificent old heaps would turn modern tique car buff chartreuse envy Everything other words ready worlds first air race Except first mat ter mud dealt everywhere thanks hours heavy rain Cars people squished through ankle-deep slime werent hiding yet another down pour come out droves stayedwaiting something happen something sup posed airplanes racing around aerial racetrack first time history afternoon Saturday August 22 particularly heavy storm hit blew through leaving air clear calm time trials select French team coming Gordon Bennett Trophy Race short order seven airplanes aloft what journalist called wonderful un precedented spectacle crowd awed sight airplanes climbing high above field altitude records rattling way around race course speed tests struggling back forth set dur ation distance marks new strange yet working flying machine little rumor minds people suddenly become something could seen heard smelled end historic air meet thousands people become famil iar sight airplanes charging around pylon-marked course Air rac ing thus born plains Beth eny die cast threequarters century marvelous flying premiere event Reims 1909 James Gordon Bennett Trophy presented publishing baron saw air racing sport could Fl LEFT WING UNDER SIDE 0 5 -IABCD 3METER H 1 0r EE ABC UI NOSE DETAIL rdI Aviation DEPERDUSSIN 1913 Left Ben Howards Mike series highly successful racers won its share trophies Cleveland smaller meets Right Jimmy Wedell great Wedell-Williams racers Cleveland wins early 30s Both Truman Weaver boost aviation l newspapers winner first big race American field pioneer builder Glenn Curtiss flying Reims Racer flew two laps course 15 mm 506 sec average blazing 471 mph Next fastest Louis Bleriot 468 mph may have very fast certainly close thats what makes kind racing fun Gordon Bennett quickly became first air racings classic trophies 1912 inspiring design real racing planes first attract international attention Deperdussins France 1913 Dep trim monoplane bullet-shaped nose enclosing 160-hp Gnome rotary engine Maurice Prevost flew win years race world record speed 127 mph though American won first series thus second race held US French domi nated speed flying prior World War including inaugural Schneider Trophy Race Monaco 1913 Pre yost won float-equipped Deperdussin final prewar Schneider went Briton Howard Pixton flew Sopwith Tabloid 86 mph World War ended speed flying racing picked up left off Using considerable technical knowledge gained during war sudden increase speed first postwar Gordon Bennet Race won French speed pilot Sadi Lecointe flying Nieuport-Delage 29V better 168 mph suddenly end Gordon Bennett Trophy Race airplanes French won three times row trophy keep Schneider Races continued slowly gained international stature 1919 race bust because persis / if1 7 II IAB / PH NOSE DETAIL 0 05 I. 0 GLOSTER IB 1927 Aaric 1 iR4 7 10rE E T 123METER tent fog 1920 race single finisher Luigi Bologna Ital ian Savoja S12 flying boat 106 mph 1921 almost same thing hap pened Giovanni de Briganti pilot complete course Macchi M7 118mph America slow awaken po tential airplane after having vented things started move 1920s dawned Joseph Pulitzer another newspaper publisher offered trophy name open types air planes got lot attention triggered some very clever work men ideas about make air planes go faster first Pulitzer Race Mitchell Field Long Island 1920 drew huge field tired military airplanes winner Army Capt Corliss Mosely flew Verville-Packard first wonderful string military racers 157 mph wasnt quite up what Europeans doing Yanks coming 1921 Pulitzer Race entry list down few significant airplanes others clearly out conten- tion Winning flashy Bert Acosta Navy Curtiss CR-l its big V-12 en gine screaming lapped course near Omaha NE better 176 mph sudden America dis covered streamlining value great gobs cubic inches paying off speed 1922 Pulitzer Race become worlds fastest Russell Maughan US Army won classy Cur tiss R-6 better 205 mph Schneider Race still attracting modified standard flying boats went Henry Biard England Supermarine Sea Lion II just 145 mph France second series races Coupe Deutsch pitted some highly impressive European racers against other long-course race 1921 Georges Kirsch won 172 mph Nieuport-Delage sesquiplane 1922 Fernand Lasne flew similar air plane victory 180 mph good racing attracted little atten tion outside Europe thing like what would happen third Coupe Deutsch came upon scene decade later Pulitzer Trophy Race remained supreme 1923 great Al Williams winning Curtiss R2C-l 244 mph around pylon coursefaster anyone else yet flown straight line Curtiss airframes en gines top world same year David Rittenhouse pulled off Americas first Schneider Race win Curtiss CR-3 177 mph easily outrun ning everyone another CR-3 pilot 1924 Pulitzer disappoint mentfor very first time No new _____F ABCDE34 IIII II IIIII II GROSVENOR HousR 1111 EF 00 ri 6 IIIH ___II~ ---rA IJ ----0123METER IIIII DH88 COMET _______________ ______LI510FEETGROSVENOR HOUSE~ RLA%rJl Avitinn Winner 1934 MacRobertson Racea long 11333 miles London Melbourne deHaviHand deH88 Comet Grosvenor House Credit Truman Weaver collection airplanes entered some best didnt perform Burt Skeelh Cur tiss R-6 came apart during diving start leaving just three airplanes race Cyrus Bettis won Verville Sprerry R-3 racer 216 mph followed Brookley R-6 215 mph Things began pick up 1925 Pulitzer went Bettis Curtiss R3C-l 249 mph airplane fit ted set floats Schneider Race Jimmy Doolittle used win Baltimore MD 233 mph despite tremendous technical know ledge favorable publicity Army Navy gained Curtiss Racers program ended fear pilot would lost spotlight addition serious concern limit hu man endurance being approached airplanes neared 300 mph Pulitzer Race get ting lions share attention gradually become part Na tional Air Races event composed races different categories airplanes would continue long after Pulitzer become history until some 'name' trophy races created replace Pulitzer Nationals got limited attention Schneider Race other hand grew more prestigious nations pouring huge amounts money drive more speed would give more brag about 1926 Schneid er Hampton Roads VA first important win Italians Mario de Bernardi whipped around 50-km course Macchi M39 looked lot like monoplane Curtiss record 246 mph race run before tens thousands peo ple its hard keep winning formula secret 1927 Schneider Race saw British pick up Americans Italians left off producing first startling series Supermarine Racers Sidney Webster won year type S5 282 mphfaster World Speed Record held French landplane year 1928 quiet except Mario de Bernardis coup Macchi M52R seaplane racer became first human travel over 300 mph averaged 319 mph series sprints near Venice Italy sea plane achieve such speed landplanes couldnt credit sthn ulation Schneider Trophy lesser need compromise sea plane design between takeoff perform ance top speed big year fdr American air racing 1929 starting first All-Amer ican Air Races Miami mov ing National Air Races held Cleveland first time latter highlighted race 000 I AB C 4--. 0 05lOEET 0 \fI7XV&X I I 12 -- CURTISS R3C1 Thompson Cup pitting civilians against military long domi nated sport civilians Doug Davis won over GIs Travel I__________________________ E __ // 00 CAUDRON CA6O 4 rr 05 Auaust 1984 59 Left Being trundled starting line Roscoe Turners Meteor won 1938 1939 Thompson Trophy Races Credit Tru man Weaver collection Right Miles Hawk Speed Six combines sportiness comfort good flying qualities best British handicap racers among several relatively low-powered ones flown Kings Cup Thirties Credit MP Marsh collection Air Mystery racer enthusiasm backyard designers builders sparked revolution Thompson Cup became Thompson Trophy world air racing would never same end year British re inforced control over Schneid er Race Henry Waghorn flew Supermarine S6A victory 329 mph leaving own teammates far behind second disappoint ing time Al Williams tried get self-financed racer ready failed 1930 National Air Races held Chicago highlighted Speed Holmans winning Thompson Trophy Race Laird Solution 202 mph followed closely Jimmy Haizlip Travel Air 200 mph I— FABC0 NX GOON III H 0METER123 I I OFEET510 ART CHESTERS GOON crowds grew rapidly did purses soon aviations great showcase par Kentucky Derby Indianapolis 500 start air racings Golden Age 1931 National Air Races moved back Cleveland saw introduction another major event Bendix Transcontinental Derby free-for-all Los Angeles Cleve land winner Jimmy Doolittle flew new Laird Super Solution biplane 2000 miles 223 mph out supposedly-vital elec tronic aids know today 1931 Thompson Race went Lowell Bayles airplane im mediately became symobol era Gee Bee speed 236 enough edge Jimmy Wedellin No 44 Wedell-Williams 228 mph speeds well below Schneider Race seaplanes racers Cleveland homebuilts no government money behind few days after Cleveland came final race long Schneider series John Boothman winning unchal lenged 340 mph ultimate Supermarine S6B trophy became permanent possession Great Britain few days later George Stainforth used same airplane break 400 mph barrier averaged 407 mph over 3km straight course Schneider out picture spotlight shone Cleveland Jim Haizllp won 1932 Bendix 245 mph Wedell-Williams sweep event Doolittle firmed up claim air racing immortality win ning Thompson Gee Bee Super Sportster 253 mph speed record stood four years led three Wedells across finish linethe highlight Gee Bees spectacularbut-checkered career quiet European racing scene came back life 1933 yet another series races Coupe Deutsch As before French dominated time did some exciting efficient airplanes ever raced first Coupe won radial-engined Potez racer Continued page 147 60 Model Aviation EBERLES IS OUR HEADQUARTERS FOR HELJCOPTERSEBLL COMPLETE Liii OF HELICOPTERS PARTS & ACCESSORIES SW___ O COMPETiTOR PR Fully aerobatic cole new added bearings. 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original 64 entries 20 actually started grand winner mag nificent red deHavilland Comet flown Campbell-Black Scott its two straight-six Gypsy engines singing almost 71 hours predecessor Mosquito bomber averaged 159 mph win both Speed Handicap Di visions second Douglas DC-2 third Speed contest Boeing 247 flown Roscoe Turner Starting out 1935 Coupe Deutsch race France Again clean sweep Caudrons type 460s taking first three places Ray mond Delmotte winner 276 150 Model Aviation mph Yves Lacombe second 264 mph Such speed limited power ignored hotshot pilots huge crowds Cleveland would always 1935 National Air Races known Benny Howard air races fine designs won important event Ben won Bendix clean high-wing Mr Mulligan 239 mph second-fastest yet Harold Neumann took over Thompson amazed everyone winning big com fortable cross-country machine 220 mph edged Steve Wittman V-12-powered Bonzo clocked 2187 mph Neumann took control Howards little Mike won Greve Race 213 mph over Art Chester Roger 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