In its first race, the R-1 was piloted by Jimmy Doolittle, future commander of the World War II Tokyo Raid, who flew to victory at the 1932 Thompson Trophy race and set a world land speed record of ...

It took a few decades for wing nuts to catch up with Bill Turner, champion of the 1930s racing machine. Turner has been flying on the cutting edge since 1932, when he was a teen and the aviation ...

In the late 1930s, Ettore Bugatti began construction on a radical aircraft that had a swept-forward wing design, a twin-V tailplane, and twin contra-rotating propellers Bugatti 100P project ...

Key Points: In the early 1930s, the U.S. Navy explored the concept of flying aircraft carriers with the rigid airships USS Akron and USS Macon. -These massive dirigibles, equipped with hangars and ...

The Santos-Dumont Demoiselle, built by Club Aéro des Garrigues in France, was meant to be the centerpiece of the Pioneers of ...