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  2. National Air Races - Wikipedia

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    Official program for the National Air Races of 1929 in Cleveland. The National Air Races (also known as Pulitzer Trophy Races) are a series of pylon and cross-country races that have taken place in the United States since 1920. The science of aviation, and the speed and reliability of aircraft and engines grew rapidly during this period; the ...

  3. Cleveland National Air Show - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Halle Trophy Race - Wikipedia

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    [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.

  5. Women's Air Derby - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Cliff Henderson - Wikipedia

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    The 1929 National Air Races included the first official women-only event, the Women's Air Derby, a cross-country race from Los Angeles to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1931, he convinced businessman Vincent Bendix to sponsor the Bendix Trophy Race, a transcontinental speed dash open to men and women. Henderson was awarded the L'Ordre de 'Etoile Noire de ...

  7. 1929 in aviation - Wikipedia

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    August 18 – The Imperial Ethiopian Air Force receives its first aircraft, a Potez 25-A2. August 29 – While Mary, Lady Heath, practices for the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, the aircraft she is piloting clips a chimney and crashes through a factory roof

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  9. Air racing - Wikipedia

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    In 1929, the Women's Air Derby, nicknamed the 'Powder Puff Derby', became a part of the National Air Races circuit. The National Air Races lasted until 1949. The Cleveland Air Races was another important event. In 1947, an All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race, also dubbed the Powder Puff Derby was established, running until 1977.