Newly Found - Rare Historical Vintage Air Race Footage - Cleveland 1947-48
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- My father, Donald "Dee Jay" Hallman, shot this footage & photos at the 1947 & 1948 National Air Races in Cleveland, OH when he was 26 years old. Pop used an Argus C-3 35mm and a Revere "60" Magazine Eight Turret Camera. The stash was found in the basement archives of his estate. I'm proud of his keen eye and will forever admire his passion for flight. Happy Fathers Day, Pop. xo
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This is mind-blowingly wonderful - colour film stock for still cameras, never mind home movie cameras, was NOT CHEAP, and your dad clearly made the very best of what he had, and the results are spectacular ! Thank you for sharing this with the world, it is hugely appreciated.
Thx, Martin, for ur feedback and kind words. I found roughly 40 slides, which have all been reworked to their full potential via PS, but it truly didn't take much. Most of what dad shot was quite sharp, given the cameras he used...an Argus C-3 35mm and a Revere "60" Magazine Eight Turret Camera. Relatively small but they weren't lightweights, so I imagine the workout he had to go through, not to mention the mental challenge of very quickly setting f stops and such to capture what was passing before him. He was by no means a wealthy man, so it's clear that his passion for photography & aviation was where some of his paycheck went on a regular basis. I've reached out to family in hopes of uncovering more from these trips. Most of the 40 slides found will show up here at some point as a slide show.
Amazing footage! At 9:37 is the F-82 Twin Mustang , Betty Jo, Colonel Robert Thacker's aircraft. We just lost him this year at 102 years old. He was an avid modeler, to include free flight rubber, all the way to his passing. You also have the original Blue Angels in their F-8 BearCats as well. Talk about amazing history! Thank you for sharing.
A beautiful tribute to your father, who obviously ignited the fire within you as well. Thank you for your time putting this together, for all of us to enjoy.
Those Kodachromes are priceless! I restored a collection of Kodachromes several years ago taken at Cleveland in '49, so I understand how much work goes into them.
First I have seen the color of many if those racers... the metallic green of Jackie Cochrane's P-51C...
Thank you so much!
Thx, Brian. Have u posted the slides from '49 anywhere?
@@maxfliart Any chance you have any additional footage of P-51C Thunderbird? We are restoring the aircraft up in Bemidji MN at AirCorps Aviation.
@briansilcox5720 Any chance you any Kodachromes of P-51C Thunderbird? We are restoring the aircraft up in Bemidji MN at AirCorps Aviation.
@@trueblooderic Unfortunately, no. Everything I had was posted here. Good luck with ur project.
I also have some 8mm that my late father took of air shows and model flying back in the 60s. Thank you for sharing your dad's movie's.
I still have my old Shoestring on 60' lines, powered by an Enya .35... fast! The Buster had a hard landing. It was like I got to play along at home.
Awesome and rare documentation of a by-gone era in aviation. Thank you!
Thank you for that gift! I hope your Father's Day is excellent as well! That film is very rich in content and a lot of rare stuff was seen if one knows aviation. Thank you for all the videos and time you spend editing! Your contribution to the hobby, our entertainment and knowledge is exemplary! Thank you again Sir!
Thx, Michael. Very much appreciated. This was a gift from my pop to all of us.
3:52 that red P-38 is awesome 😀
An Amazing find. My dad grew up in Cleveland. He went to all the
Airshows in Cleveland from the 30s to 1949 when they ended. Unfortunately he has no photographs from the shows. I live very close to where Cook Cleland’s two Corsairs were stored for many years. Number 92 and 74.
So many comments to make on those pics and movies. The post WW 2 air racers are my favorite subject. Sending a thanks to your Dad! Hope you find more.
To see eight B-29’s in formation! Considering in 2021, there are only two flying examples, an awesome display!
Indeed! What do you think was flying over top?
Would guess shooting stars
This is a real treat to see. I grew up in NE Ohio, and my dad ( a Berlin Airlift veteran and private pilot) always made sure we went to the Cleveland Air Show. Mostly exhibition in those days, but a wonderful event that I looked forward to every year. Thank you for sharing .
Thx, James. I've been enjoying all of the back stories from sons & daughters of those who were there. My dad drove from the Philly area, so back in the day, that was quite a trip. Hoping to find more photos from my brother's stash. Fingers crossed.
Gold dust . Thank you.
Nice pics and video. God bless your dad and thanks for sharing them.
I have no doubt my father was also there in that same crowd. What a time that must have been in America in the later half of the 1940s. Our national pride must have been beaming.
Some amazing aviation history👌
Wow, thank you for sharing this! What a time to be alive in post war America.
Fantastic. Thank you to you and your dad for giving us this spectacular video and stills. Loved seeing the Blue Angels' Grumman F8F Bearcats. Thanks again.
Thx, Thomas. As u can imagine, I was thrilled when I unboxed these slides & film.
This is amazing. Those ex WWII pilots needed to keep flying! This reminds of of an old coworker who said he witnessed the GeeBee racers in the late 1930s, including the fatal crash.
What a great found treasure!
Thank you for sharing.
I saw the #5 Swee'Pea in the beginning and some flying and the #2 Swee'Pea near the end.
Art crashed in the Swee'Pea in 1949 at San Diego.
Absolutely brilliant and the nicest pictures I've ever seen of Swee pea, very nice
Wonderful footage!
Saw an F-82 Twin Mustang in there! I love it! A rewatch and I see it is Betty Jo! That must have been just after her Honolulu to New York record setting dash. I got to see the newly restored XP-82 at Oshkosh 2 years ago.
Thanks for sharing!
You know what there is a F2G2 corsair #94 in there 2 those are more rare than F82.
Thank you Mr. Hallman for sharing these wonderful heirlooms. My Grandfather was a PB4Y pilot in the Pacific. He also loved the air races.
Sport plane and sport aviation taught me how to build
Thank you for sharing. This was a very good day.
Just REMARKABLE images and footage. So glad you shared. Growing up in Cleveland, the races always came up if you had any interest in aviation. I was fortunate to be a USMC pilot and later flew in the Reno Air Races. Never forgot my Cleveland roots and the tremendous aviation accomplishments from the area. And I absolutely love to shoot/video aviation. My father would have been 100 this year as well. Thank you!
Thx. I've been enjoying the back stories from many after posting this film. The good news is that I've had a better scan made of the flying footage, so it's even sharper, with better color. I have about 40 photos in all and will be posting another film in the coming weeks with all of the photos included.
@@maxfliart Excellent. I'm glad you added the mechanical film sound ... made it so realistic. You may want to reach out to NARA - I'm sure they'd really appreciate linking to your treasure trove
@@N777KD Thx. Good idea.
Absolutely wonderful 👍 . Thank`s for taking the time to restore this footage and posting it for us all to enjoy.
A fitting tribute to your Dad well done to the both of you.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful nostalgic past with us. Simply awesome!
That one second shot of Yippie P-38 is neat.
This is a really wonderful channel ! Thank you for sharing your passion. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👋👋👋👋
Price less! Just fantastic!
Man you gotta love all that war surplus out there.
Thanks! My dad was from cleveland,..& attended these races! He said they were eventually canceled, due to accidental crashes into residential homes! My favorites were the Gee Bees!
Amazing! Thanks for sharing and preserving those memories!
Astounding and wonderful!
Fantastic video.. Thanks to you and your father for these glimpses of the past. Not many Aircobras left flying today. Happy Father’s Day to all. Terry&ThePirates South Florida
Thanks for sharing ! My dad took me to air shows in the 60's in Flint .
All the cool planes were there .
Thank you!
Just so much thanks
That’s great footage! Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks for sharing this!
Fantastic footage and pictures! Thanks for sharing. That's a great way to honor your dad and keep his memory alive.
Thanks for sharing this amazing footage. The slide /photos are excellent scale references, given their great quality.
My father was about the same age as yours. A few years back I scanned the pile of old family slides, the earliest taken by Dad with his Argus C3. I cut my 35mm teeth with that brick when I was in my teens fifty years ago and will never part with it.
Appears we had the same fascination with our dads' cams. I'm surprised that he let me handle it as a youngster, since it was his pride n joy. Then again, maybe he wanted to inspire curiosity, which he did.
Thanks for sharing
What a fantastic collection of images, would love to have been there to see such fantastic machines and flying in person. At least I’ve seen the Cosmic Wind which is now down the road from me at Duxford!
And along with the seeing, the _Hearing_ of all those gloriously rOund motors!
@@scottfw7169 absolutely, nothing like the sound of big piston engines at full chat!
Amazing video and pictures! Just seeing all those B29’s in formation was incredible!
Anyone else think some much later ultralight aircraft footage got mixed in by mistake? Looks similar to a Kolb with it's boom tail and top of wing engine mount.
That is amazing footage thanks for sharing it. Awesome
Really cool. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing this.
Spectacular. Thanks for that.
Thank u for sharing this
This is amazing! Thanks!
Amazing! Thank you.
Awesome treasure to find from your Dad and for all those that love aviation! Now, I know why the apple didn't fall far from the tree:)
very cool, thanks for sharing
Fantastic Tom.. Of course much of it was state of the art machinery back then.
Gotta love it thanks for sharing.
That is beyond awesome!
Beautiful video, love the footage and the pictures. Can't wait for my dad to see this, we are from Cleveland and he may have been there for this airshow.
Terrific! Keep us posted, especially if he has photos to share.
Tom!!!!! Muy english Is very poor, Is Awesome the video!!! Thanks for...compartir tu espectacular video de la época, las fotografías son excelentes!!! Gracias por compartir este documento familiar, que realizó... your DAD!!! Thanks to your Father You're Artist of Flying!!! Thanks Tom.thanks Tom's Dad. Fernando.🇦🇷
Heck yea! The goodyear racers!! I wish we still homebuilt like that.
Wow!
Fantastic.
Thank you for sharing this with all of us ! My Dad also loved aviation (he was a Naval Aviator) and photography-good interests for one to have! Cheers and L L A P✈📷🖖
The slides were terrific!....Moses
Good stuff!,, great footage!
And Happy Father’s Day to you, too…
wow!
tks for sharing
Thank you so much. My childhood Dreamland right before my eyes in stunning color.
My dad had some black and whites from Cleveland.
He was so impressed with Bill Odom's mustang. Those familiar with it know the outcome. I believe it was in '49?
Thanks for sharing. Wow, that P38 was not hanging around!
Good stuff.
That was great.
Awesome video. My dad was at the same show but I only have black and white prints, many of the same planes though. There is a Utube video of the air show by periscope films, just wondered if you had seen it. Thank you for sharing that.
Thx! That was terrific. It's as though my dad's film was B roll footage of the same. Very cool!
Was that red P38 Yippee?
This is some incredible stuff. Thanks for sharing with us.
I’m pretty sure that was Tony LeVier’s P-38. He was a regular at the shows. Raced did aerobatics in that plane.
Wonderful footage, with so many fascinating aircraft. Was that a Banshee?
I think that’s actually the Banshee’s predecessor an FH1 Phantom going by the shape of the windscreen and the tail dihedral. Not quite the plane the Banshee was, but it did have a great name!
@@richuar thanks for that. I've just noticed that the Banshee had top tanks as well. It must have been amazing to fly jets in that era, the chances of having lots of types in your logbook must have been very high - unlike today.
@@cyclemike5182 nothing says jet age cool quite like tip tanks :) Amazing isn’t it that today we have jets like the F15 in front line service for decades when back then some types lasted just a couple of years, months or even left the factory already obsolete!
Thanks a lot for digitizing, cleaning and uploading the footage. Your dad is proud, I'm sure.
Besides, I fell in love with the little yellow v-tailed #5. Do you have a name for me?
Best regards, Hilmar.
Thx for the kind words. Yes, that's Art Chester's Swea Pea. There's also the Swea Pea II...shown as #2 at the end of the film. I was thrilled to see at least one of them appear in the film footage.
@@maxfliart great, thank you very much for your response. This little cutie would be a nice one to build.
...and did it.
At the moment I've finished the design and construction, now I'll have to cut out the parts from DEPRON. I'm very curious how well it will fly.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE INSPIRING VIDEO! My Swee' Pea plan will be dedicated to you and your dad. 😀
Check the result here:
www.lange-flugzeit.de/?post_type=publication&p=1949
Best regards,
Hilmar.
@@HilmarLange Terrific.
At 9:46 Art Chester's Swee' Pea. At present in storage at the Spirit of Flight museum, but in desperate need of some tlc.
The apple does not fall far from the tree... Your pops was a dab hand at the ol' camera!
Thx, Jason. Thrilled by this find.
Superb! Thank you for sharing this footage and beautiful photos with us, and the respect and love you have for your father as well. May I ask- what is the airplane at 9:47, if you know?
Thx Matt. I've enjoyed this discovery. That's a Corsair. It also appears rather quickly passing the pylon.
@@maxfliart Aah, thanks! The plane I was noting is just after that Corsair, and after a bit of scrutiny I see it's the Art Chester v-tail "Swee' Pea". What a pretty plane; it would be interesting to model this one (and probably a challenge to get it trimmed with the tail configuration...).
@@mbasiletti Ah. Dave Mitchell of the Flying Aces had recently built a peanut version, though I'm not sure of the flight results. 13" rubber power.
Un detto del mio paese "acqua che passa non macina più",ma restano i ricordi,bei filmati da amacord.
Very cool photos and video! Anyone know what happened to the Corsair at the 8:40 mark?
Had a scatchy landing and broke the landing gear and struck the prop into the ground.
@@Sven_Hein Thx for the back story.
Does that look like “SI” for the tail code? If so, that would be from VMF-225.
I think this shows the First iteration of the Navy Blue Angels. They were flying Grumman Bearcats.
Also Thank You for sharing this, Sir.
I found a shot of four of them taxiing in front of the crowd. A bit more blurry than the others by my pop, but it's still an interesting image. I'll post it with the next version of this film which has been re-mastered. Hope to have the film go live some time in late July. I'll be including all of the slides that I found from '47-'48....forty or so...along with the sharper film.
Wonder how much a surplus P51 or P38 cost in 1948 ? - or Corsair !
And I too saw the arup s-4
I missed that. Where on the time line?
Beautiful work. That last photo with a P-39 and a 4 bladed prop....I would like to have known what was under the hood.
Again, thanks.
It's a P-63
@@bobvicki Right...thanks.
"I would like to have known what was under the hood" Ballast probably.
Okay what is the one near the end that looks like a gee bee Q.E.D
Fascinating stuff. Can anyone identify the yellow #10 at the beginning of the film? It appears to be a Le Via 'Cosmic Wind', but history doesn't record a yellow one. #10 was 'Skeeter'/'El Bandito', a different aircraft entirely.
From what I've read, it's the Ballerina from 1947. Color & number changed in '48. Became #5 in emerald and creme.
@@maxfliart Thanks.
CofR Application 30.07.47 from Anthony W LeVier for LeVier and Associates. Regd 12.08.47 as
NX67889 to Herman R "Fish" Salmon and initially Yellow & Black with Racing No:10. Date of
Manufacture officially given as 19.08.47 & engine a 85hp Continental C85J. Application for CofA
19.08.47 by H R Salmon stating that aircraft will be used for racing & Exhibition purposes only. CofA
issued 20.08.47 for 12 months.Re-Regd 12.08.48 as N21C named Minnow and now in Metallic Bronze & Cream
with Racing No: 4. "Fish" Salmon won the 1948 Goodyear race at Cleveland. For 1949, it was decided
to extensively modify Minnow. A brand new tube-and-fabric fuselage was designed and built. The wing
was removed from the low-wing position and mounted in a mid-wing configuration to the new fuselage.
CofA Application 17.06.49 by Anthony W LeVier and issued 24.06.49 for 12 months
@@frostyfrost4094 Thank you for that. Minnow was later restored to it's original comfiguration and a new 'barn door' wing was built for the midwing fuselage. The result was called 'Miss Cosmic wing'.
Wait, 1947~8, what was that ultralight looking thing at 4:30?
Stits Skeeter maybe...?
Appears to be this Curtiss Wright Junior. curtisswrightjunior.com/Aircraft/11804/11804.htm
@@maxfliart Nice research!
After I posted I realised the Skeeter had the motor in the front, so started thinking a 'Woody Pusher' but...
Did we see all four Cosmic Winds?
Amazing if we did.The Green one "Ballerina" is alive and flying this side of the pond Niel Williams, l think used this in one of the World Aerobatic championships (G-ARUL) and the red one is Little Toni G-AYRJ in a museum in the states. There is a fifth one which was made from leftovers.
Was that orange P-38 YIPPEE?
I wondered the same thing! So I did a little bit of research and found out that it was another modified P38L owned and flown by Tony LeVier who famously flew YIPPEE. Maybe Lockheed didn’t want him racing company property so he had to buy his own haha!
@@richuar thanks for looking into it
@@richuar funnily enough lockheed banded thier test pilots from racing the Cosmic Winds
@@frostyfrost4094 oh wow, I suppose Lockheed figured being a test pilot was already a risky enough job without adding extra jeopardy in your spare time!
Holy frijolies Batman! What did it cost to have a P-38? That would be like owning current military merch. (I'm not greedy. No F-35 for me. A surplus F-16 would be nice.).
Un believable do you realize what you have here.
Thx, yeah...pretty incredible.