PRE-WAR CLEVELAND RACERS

wacoykc · **Posted:** Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:15 pm

Here is a group from the Golden Age of Air Racing. I tried to pick a few that have not neccesarily ever been published. I'll let you all see how many you can guess correctly!

C170BDan · **Posted:** Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:56 pm

Awesome.... just awesome. :shock:

JDK · **Posted:** Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:29 pm

Neat! Looks like an exercise in using French Curves. Or an early Disney airplane for the mouse!

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:07 pm

Sweet pictures man. What a time period.

Sully · **Posted:** Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:36 pm

The Bulldog looks like 1932 with the larger fin and rudder.

Sully

MX304 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:19 pm

JDK wrote:

Neat! Looks like an exercise in using French Curves. Or an early Disney airplane for the mouse!

If I could build any replica aircraft (full scale) this would be it. I absolutely LOVE this design.

Dasher · **Joined:** Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:01 pm **Posts:** 58

VERY cool.

Thanks for scanning and posting these.

wacoykc · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:32 am

I thought you guys might like these. There is a replica Bulldog being built...don't remember where it was though...probably California.

10kDA · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:26 am

Thanks for posting these. I'll pass on the most well-known like the Weddell and Hall airplanes, but some of the others are:
#301 - Rudy Kling's Folkerts SK-3
#33 - Brown B2, my second-favorite airplane
#3 - Keith Rider R-3 Marcoux-Bromberg Special, same airplane as "Gilmore Record Breaker"
#88 - Haines, reportedly rebuilt from a Keith Rider racer
#22 - First Mummert Mercury racer, aka "Red Racer"
#8 - Steve Wittman's first configuration of Chief Oshkosh with the Cirrus engine
#7 - the hybrid Gee Bee R1/R2
#1 - Commandaire Little Rocket

wacoykc · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 1:14 pm

You win the coveted "Guess the Racer Prize". Now what that prize actually consists of I am not certain but when I think of something you will get it!

barnbstormer · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:44 pm

Here is one of my favorite photos of Roscoe Turner. Reminds me how a lot of us, on this forum, feel about aviation. Look at how excited all these kids are to see their hero in person and get his autograph..

Ztex · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:05 pm

These are very cool!

I love this period of aviation. The advances are stunning to me now, I can't imagine how I would have felt back then.

barnbstormer · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:40 pm

You have been posting so many great photos for us to enjoy. I am trying to find something for you to enjoy. I guess that is pretty hard with all the fantastic WACO photos you have. You probably have this, but just in case you don't..Here is Phoebe Omlie Christening the Official plane of the National Air Race Corporation, at the 1930 N.A.R., in Chicago, at Curtiss Wright Reynolds Field. With Capt. Max Corpening-Executive Director of the Air Races, & Major Shorty Schroeder & local Vets band from Chicago for the fanfare. It is a Waco, even though Omlie was flying a Monocoupe, in the Air Races. Looks like a five cyl. radial, probably a Wright J6-5?

wacoykc · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:04 pm

It is actually a Waco INF and I do not have a good photo of that...only one that I found on the internet when I wrote the book "Women of Waco". The book details 24 women who owned/flew Wacos in the 20's-30's and Phoebe and her husband were actually Waco Dealers in Memphis, TN.

I'd sure like a good scan of that for my collection!

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:26 pm

I always loved the Laird Super Solution, and the Travel Air Mystery Ship

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