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The races eventually moved to Cleveland, in 1929, [1] where they were known as the Cleveland National Air Races. [2] They drew the best flyers of the time, including James Doolittle , Wiley Post , Tex Rankin , Frank Hawks , Jimmy Wedell , Roscoe Turner , and others from the pioneer age of aviation.
The Thompson Trophy race was one of the National Air Races of the heyday of early airplane racing in the 1930s. Established in 1929, the last race was held in 1961. The race was 10 miles (16 km) long with 50-foot-high (15 m) pylons marking the turns, and emphasized low altitude flying and maneuverability at high speeds.
The Cleveland National Air Show is an annual air show held on Labor Day weekend at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1964 as an indirect successor to the National Air Races. [1] The show includes stunt airplanes, modern fighters and alternates between the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds ...
The first real race for female pilots was the Women's Air Derby during the 1929 National Air Races and Aeronautical Exposition. Air-race promoter Cliff Henderson was the founder of the first Women's Air Derby, which he patterned after the men's transcontinental air races. (Ironically, Henderson would ban women from competing in the 1934 Bendix ...
[1] [2] It was one of many events at the National Air Races in Cleveland and the only one limited to women aviators. [3] In the 1946 race, the five women flyers who competed for the first trophy were photographed for Life magazine. [4] The first winner was Marge Hurlburt, who would go on to set a women's air speed record the following year.
The Condor K-10 Shoestring (originally known as the Ast Special and the Mercury Air Shoestring) was a Formula One Air Racing aircraft built by Carl and Vincent Ast to compete in the Cleveland National Air Races in 1949. It was a highly streamlined mid-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailwheel undercarriage.
Cleveland Air Race: Napier-Heston Racer: UK: 1940: 1: Flight airspeed record: ... National Air Races [citation needed] [citation needed] Northrop Gamma: US: 1932 ...
The Bendix Trophy was a cross-country race from the west coast to the site of the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, and typically was the starting event of the week-long aviation festival. The Thompson Trophy was awarded to the winner of the unlimited division in closed-course pylon racing at the National Air Races.