How the Granville Brothers built the deadly Gee Bee R-1 around a huge engine, and how Jimmy Doolittle rode it to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy.
TaildraggerHow Jimmy Doolittle tamed the deadly Gee Bee Model R to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy and set a 296 mph world speed record.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Roscoe Turner, the Powder-Blue Colonel, and Gilmore the Lion Cub Who Rode Shotgun Through the Golden Age of Air Racing.
TaildraggerHow Jimmy Doolittle tamed the deadly Gee Bee R-1 to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy and set a world speed record at Cleveland.
TaildraggerColonel Roscoe Turner won the Thompson Trophy three times, flew with a pet lion, and became aviation's greatest showman.
TaildraggerThe story of Roscoe Turner, his lion Gilmore, and how golden-age air racing shaped the showmanship of Oshkosh today.
TaildraggerThe Gee Bee Super Sportster earned a killer reputation, but Doolittle and Delmar Benjamin proved it was demanding, not evil.
TaildraggerSteve Wittman was the self-taught Wisconsin racer whose homebuilt speed machines and spring-steel landing gear earned him a legacy - and Oshkosh's airport its name.
TaildraggerHow showman-pilot Roscoe Turner flew with a pet lion named Gilmore and became the only man to win the Thompson Trophy three times.
TaildraggerRoscoe Turner won the Thompson Trophy three times - the only pilot in history to do so - combining elite flying skill with deliberate, strategic self-promotion during aviation's golden age.
TaildraggerThe Gee Bee Super Sportster was the fastest piston racer of the 1930s - a machine so demanding it required genius to fly and cost its creators everything to build.
TaildraggerBill Stead, a Nevada cattle rancher and pilot, single-handedly revived American air racing by founding the Reno Air Races in 1964.
TaildraggerThe 1949 Berea crash that killed pilot Bill Odom and two bystanders ended the Cleveland National Air Races and reshaped airshow safety forever.
TaildraggerThe 1949 Cleveland Air Races disaster killed a pilot, a mother, and her infant son, ending America's golden age of air racing forever.
TaildraggerRoscoe Turner won three Thompson Trophies, flew with a lion cub, and became the greatest air racing pilot of the 1930s.
TaildraggerThe Gee Bee Super Sportster was the fastest and most dangerous racing airplane of the 1930s, built by five self-taught brothers in a converted dance hall.
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