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This list of racing aircraft covers aircraft which have been designed or ... 1930: Variant modified for racing. ... Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship: US: 1929:
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.
The 9th edition of the race for 1930 attracted a record entry list of 101 aircraft, to be piloted by many notable aviators including several former King's Cup winners, and the Schneider trophy winner of 1929 Richard Waghorn, and Augustus Orlebar who had set the world speed record with 357.7 mph (575.7 km/h) flying a Supermarine S.6.
This was also the year for the first female pylon race, the winner of which was awarded the Aerol Trophy beginning in 1931. [4]: 78–79, 99 [1] In Chicago, on the last day of the 1930 trophy race (September 1), USMC Captain Arthur Page crashed his modified Curtiss Hawk Seaplane F6C-3, and died of his injuries later that day.
Mary Barr (1925–2010), first female pilot to join the US Forest Service and become National Aviation Safety Officer [6] Jean Batten (1909–1982), made first solo flight from United Kingdom to New Zealand in the 1930s; Ann Baumgartner (1918–2008), test pilot; first American woman to fly a U.S. Army Air Forces jet aircraft (a Bell YP-59A jet ...
The Type R "Mystery Ships" were a series of wire-braced, low-wing racing airplanes built by the Travel Air company in the late 1920s and early 1930s. They were so called because the first two aircraft of the series ( R614K , R613K , together with Model B-11-D R612K ) were built entirely in secrecy.
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