Gee Bee

The Hangar Sep 12, 2026

The Granville Brothers, the Gee Bee Racers, and the Most Beautiful Dangerous Thing That Ever Flew Over Cleveland

The Granville Brothers built the fastest - and most dangerous - racing aircraft of the 1930s, winning the 1932 Thompson Trophy at 252 mph.

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The Hangar Jul 24, 2026

The Gee Bee Super Sportster, the Granville Brothers' Flying Engine, and the Barrel-Chested Racer That Terrified a Generation and Came Roaring Back at Oshkosh

The Gee Bee Super Sportster earned a killer reputation, but Doolittle and Delmar Benjamin proved it was demanding, not evil.

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The Hangar Jul 21, 2026

The Gee Bee Super Sportster and the Flying Barrel That Jimmy Doolittle Rode to Three Hundred Miles an Hour

The story of the Gee Bee Super Sportster, the barrel-shaped racer Jimmy Doolittle flew to 296 mph in 1932 - and why it wasn't the murderer history claimed.

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