The barrel-shaped Gee Bee Model R-One hit 252 mph to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy - and killed nearly every pilot who flew it after Doolittle walked away.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear invented wing-walking in 1919, became America's most famous aviator, and died on a Hollywood film set blinded by klieg lights during a night stunt.
TaildraggerThe Gee Bee R-1 won the 1932 Thompson Trophy at 252.6 mph - and its story reveals how civilian air racing built the foundation for WWII combat aviation.
TaildraggerRoscoe Turner won the Thompson Trophy three times in the 1930s - a record no pilot has ever matched - and flew coast to coast with a lion named Gilmore.
TaildraggerWiley Post, a one-eyed Oklahoma oilfield worker, flew solo around the world in 1933 and pioneered pressure suit technology that became the foundation for modern spacesuits.
TaildraggerHow Benny Howard's Mister Mulligan became the only airplane to win both the Bendix and Thompson trophies in 1935 - and what it cost him.
TaildraggerHow Clyde Pangborn walked the wing of Miss Veedol over the Pacific in 1931 to complete the first nonstop transpacific flight.
TaildraggerHow Benny Howard's homebuilt cabin racer Mister Mulligan won both the 1935 Bendix and Thompson trophies - a feat never repeated.
TaildraggerHow showman-pilot Roscoe Turner won three Thompson Trophies flying the Wedell-Williams racer - with a lion cub named Gilmore riding along.
TaildraggerHow Jimmy Doolittle tamed the Gee Bee Model R - aviation's most feared racer - to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy and a world speed record.
TaildraggerRoscoe Turner won the Thompson Trophy three times, flew with a lion named Gilmore, and helped drive early aviation technology.
TaildraggerThe story of the Gee Bee Model R and how Jimmy Doolittle rode the most dangerous racer in America to a 1932 Thompson Trophy win.
TaildraggerHow Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon made the first nonstop transpacific flight in 1931 by jettisoning their landing gear.
TaildraggerHow Jimmy Doolittle flew the deadly Gee Bee R-1 to a 296 mph world record in 1932 - then walked away from racing for good.
TaildraggerHow the Schneider Trophy floatplane race and Supermarine's S.6B secretly forged the engineering behind the Spitfire.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Ireland in 1938 and called it a navigation error.
TaildraggerIn 1924, four US Army biplanes attempted the first flight around the world - two survived to complete the 26,000-mile journey.
TaildraggerHow Roscoe Turner, his lion Gilmore, and a self-made uniform led to three Thompson Trophy wins and aviation immortality.
TaildraggerHow Jimmy Doolittle won the 1932 Thompson Trophy in the deadly Gee Bee R-1 - then walked away from racing forever.
TaildraggerHow Louise Thaden won the 1929 Women's Air Derby, the cross-country race newspapers mocked as the Powder Puff Derby.
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