Text from back of image: "Still in the lead of the Women's Transcontinental Air Derby, Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden of Pittsburgh, PA, appeared over the Cleveland Municipal Airport at 2:14 p.m., Aug. 26th, completing the last leg of the Santa...
Text from back of image: "Ted Wells of Wichita (Kas) flashed over the finishing line of the National Air Races at Cleveland today winning the air derby from Portland (Ore) with an elapsed time of 14 hours, 44 minutes and 10 seconds. He flew a...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows Lieut. F. W. Wead, US navy aviator who with A. W. Gorton, another US navy aviator will compete for the Schneider Cup in the Great International Air Race to be held over England next month. Officials at the...
Text from back of image: "Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden of Pittsburgh (PA) stepped from her Travelair plane at Cleveland Airport this afternoon, the winner of the Women's Air Derby from Santa Monica (CA). Mrs. Thaden's actual flying time for the...
Text from back of image: "The above photo shows George E. Halsey of Kansas City (MO), winner of the Miami to Cleveland Air Derby as he arrived at the Cleveland Airport this afternoon."
Text from back of image: "Photo shows the Verville-Sperry monoplane, which is claimed will be able to make 250 miles per hour and will be piloted by Lieut. Elex Pearson in the Pulitzer Air Race. Another feature of this monoplane is that the landing...
Text from back of image: "Captain de Haviland, flying a De Haviland Moth won the King's Cup Air Race, which started and finished at Hatfield Aerodrom, Herts, England, pictured receiving the Winner's Trophy from (?)"
Text from back of image: "Lt. Lawson H. Sanderson, US Marine Corps, one of the best racing pilots in the US service who will pilot a racing aeroplane in the Pulitzer World Championship air races at Detroit. Sanderson, who is entered in both land...
Text from back of image: "The new British mystery speed plane for The Schneider Cup Races, the super-marine S-6, was given a trial the other day by Squadron Leader A.H. Orlebar of the Royal Air Force, captain of the British Schneider Cup Team....
Text from back of image: "Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden of Pittsburgh (PA) stepped from her Travelair plane at Cleveland Airport this afternoon, the winner of the Women's Air Derby from Santa Monica (CA). Mrs. Thaden's actual flying time for the...
Text from back of image: "Here is the Mulvihill model trophy which will be the prize of the winner of the airplane races to be held in St. Louis on October 2nd."
Text from back of image: "Taking the pylon turns banked like this, J.C. Newlin led the 25-mile race in the Philadelphia American Legion Air Races, PA, but his motor sputtered and he lost to Henry Little, who also knows how to take turns."
Text from back of image: "Roscoe Turner, who was disqualified in the recent Thompson Trophy Race at Los Angeles, for failing to round a pylon, pictured as he called on the Natioanl Aeronautic Assn. in Washington, DC, July 12th to protest his...
Text from back of image: "Great sececy is maintained regarding the Italian planes for this race. However, this seems to be the case with all the other entrants also. The race only will tell us which really was the real mystery of them all. Photo...
Text from back of image: "Miss Clara Johnson, United Air Lines stewardess, points to the special markings on the 200-mile-an-hour Boeing twin-engined transport which Col. Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn flew in the 13,323-mile London-Melbourne...
Text from back of image: "Nearly 40 planes of various kinds, shown above, took off from Detroit Oct. 5 on the 5,000-mile fifth annual national air tour."
