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Wet Wings & Drop Tanks: Recollections of American Transcontinental Air Racing 1928-1970

By: Birch Matthews
Wet Wings & Drop Tanks: Recollections of American Transcontinental Air Racing 1928-1970
Retail Price: $100.00
Booktopia Price $90.00
ISBN: 9780887405303
Format: Hardcover
Published: July 2007

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Many of the personalities, pilots, and aircraft involved in major transcontinental races across the U.S., 1928-1970. Cross-country unlimited class events - including non-stop air derbies of the late 1920s, the famous Bendix Trophy Races of the 1930s and 1940s, and modern Reno Harolds Club Trophy to 1970 - produced some of the most exciting and heartbreaking tournaments on record. An extensive history of the many factors involved in the isolated, lonely environment of long distance air racing.

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