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Looking for a blue and silver. Staggerwing flown by william maycock 39 bendix trophy race do you have any footage of him it was my grandfather

13:28 Roscoe Turner.

Thank you for posting this video !

Clipped Wing Monocoup smashed.

Jimmy 😂 Wedel, Rosco Turner, Doolittle.

These guys were way ahead of the Army and Navy with aerodynamics. All of their pioneering efforts bore fruit in the defense of Europe against the Nazis and defeating Japan just a few years later.

my Dad was 16 in 1939 and said that many “aeronautical engineers “ really just “ winged-it” designing planes that were tweaked from other existing designs and were generally experimental !!! … amazing that more people didn’t die flying them !!!

Runway? I don't need no runway. I don't need no stinking runway.

Whoever shot the color we must remember that person. Color film back then was expensive and very costly. Seeing it in color was fantastic. Seeing Steve Wittman and Bonzo his plane of his design was WOW! He held the patent for the leaf spring landing gear used on the Cessna’s today.

I wonder if anybody ever tryed a Ranger 440 for racing?

I wish The Lord woulda made my time in the Golden Days. God Bless. Hard to watch. I love Jimmy Doolittle and ALL the ole racers as an aviation nut i am.

-What a wonderful time-people dressed nice, they had self-respect for themselves/others, craftmanship everywhere, and some very, very brave pilots. Even the fuel trucks had class.

19:43 Kinda looks like Czech Mate. (Crashed in 2022) - And I thought being at Reno in 1980 was the golden age of air racing. lol This was a pleasure to watch, thank you.

Y (v: 173.08).  1934 - Aug 31-Sept 3, Cleveland Bendix = 1. Doug Davis, Wedell-Williams 44 (v: 216.23 / 09h:26m:41s). 2. John Worthen, Wedell-Williams (v: 203.21 / 10h:03m:00s).

Douglas B19?

Reminds me of a movie I just watched,Tail Spin 1939…

I noticed the address of the company that filmed this. It's quite a neighborhood now.

And there was Steve Wittman in Bonzo (the little mid-wing home-built with tiny wheels and small rectangular wings) getting a little long in the tooth in it's fifth season, but still as fast as any of the big-dollar military contractor hardware.

If only it had sound. Great stuff here. Thanks for posting. Things were looking good before the war showed up.

No narrative = a lot less information.

Too much long!!! My eyes have pain because my age 55...

Fascinating.

I think I recon Stewe Witman in there, this film shows how much ahead U.S.A. was in that period of time.

WOW !!!

footage and stills of the great racers I'd never seen. And a P-36 elephant walk! Awesome stuff.

The daylight scenes sure weren't shot in Cleveland, or anywhere even close by! There's not a mountain nor even a good size hill within 75 miles of Cleveland Ohio. Near about the entire northern 2/3's of the state is a bit flatter than a plate of warm broth!

Man , talk about about a turn out!!!!!!!!

Thank you for such a wonderful look back at those magnificent men in their flying machines

Great video Jeff. 🌞

Pre war aviation when every thing was new and exciting.

My favorite quote of Eleanor Roosevelt while she was attending the Cleveland Air races. America is all about speed. Hot nasty badass speed.

Bummer for the pilots a lap counting girl was a guy in a suit.

Steve Whitman the greatest race pilot ever. 14:00

I used to ride my bike here in the late 60’s & watch the planes, you could go out of the terminal put a dime in the yellow box & listen to the pilots & tpwer

Those machines look like a handfull, in the air or on the ground. Obviously, not for pussys!

Wonderful document! Beautifully done.

Thanks for posting this footage! This is footage from the 1932 Cleveland National Air Races, plus the start of the Bendix cross-country race that culminated in Cleveland during the NAR.

I regret "Not Knowing" my grand parents "whole story" from A Boeing Executive Secretary during the war to a flight engineer bombing Germany and one member Whom joined the RCAF, RAF as a US citizen Pre War, then a member or AAC once we got in, to the END in fighters. One who went on through the USN into all the pragmas through the shuttle.

This footage is incredible. Thank you for posting this.

I was struck when I saw the size of the crowds in the grandstand. I think I have seen high school football games with more people. Then I realized that the population of people at that time was far lower than the population of today. That and this may have been considered a sport for the affluent, perhaps? Regardless, I absolutely love this video post and I am so grateful you have placed it here for us as it is just incredible. Thank you!

For the Roscoe Turner shot where he's getting into the Red Lion, I'm 99.9% sure that's 1932. (and probably the beginning of the Bendix Trophy race)

What was the mystery bird at the beginning? Was that the Wright Apache?

What a fantastic color presentation of life in America in 1939! Love seeing Tony LeVier working on his Firecracker racer before he became a famous Lockheed pilot! (0:39)

My favorite caudron 460. 🌪️🌪️

Since there is no sound to this video. You're welcome. czcams.com/video/uZ6_ISALjcQ/video.html

This is from the 1932 Cleveland Air Races. That’s a Monocoupe and a Davis. You can see the Monocoupe at the beginning but that’s definitely Art Chester’s Davis NC 150Y being pried off. The crash happened on Sept. 2, 1932. Chester loaned his Davis to William Warrick to fly. The Monocoupe was flown by Paul Bloom. The planes crashes as they were rounding the home pylon and fell 75 feet to the ground.

The cs6 menasco engine was a piece of art. I'd love to own one.

It's amazing that the racing planes and most of the military planes featured in this seem ancient, yet many others like the Piper's and Aeronca's seem timeless. Great footage!

When men were men and snowflakes need not apply

My Grandfather J. Earl Steinhauer was the starter for this race. You can see him at the 28.33 mark. This is great video. Thanks!