The Gee Bee Racers: A Legacy of Speed, by Charles A Mendenhall and Tom Murphy. Reprinted by Specialty Press - 1994. ISBN: 0-93342-05-1. 179 Pages which Includes the Index.
The book is like new; black and white photo reproductions and illustrations throughout,
clean with no writing or names inserted. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. A fine copy!
This long out-of-print work is available once again. The only work ever available which covers the entire line of Granville Brothers projects, including all models of their sport and racing planes. Offers a discussion of the aerodynamic knowledge of the 1930s, versus the Gee Bee replica flown in 1994 in aerobatic demonstrations. Contains unique drawings for a proposed Granville Indy car!
THE GEE BEE RACERS were fast, colorful, and cursed with the most outrageous bad luck imaginable. They were also much, much more. Until their remarkable but brief time span in aviation history, no other aircraft ever made such daring contributions to the advancement of speed, to the amazement of thousands, and to the excitement and adventure of American ingenuity in full bloom. At the time the Gee Bee series was begun, not thirty years had passed since the stick and wire Wright Flyer had taken to the air for a one-hundred-twenty-foot flight across the windswept dunes of Kitty Hawk. Any invention of a transportation device soon results in a race, and the airplane was no different. By 1909, less than six years after the first successful heavier-than-air flight, an international speed contest was held at Rheims, France. Glenn Curtiss took over the meet with his Golden Flyer fluttering along at a little over forty-six miles per hour and emerged an international celebrity.
This book has been in our family library for a long time and is in “like new” condition. This is a CASH Sale only, No Checks. Can provide more pictures upon request. We can meet at a local "safe place" so you to review the book and then decide if you would like it. Thank you for looking and considering this book on Craigslist.
Book Size: 10.00” x 7.00” x 0.25” Approx.