The Story of the 1939 National Air Races

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The Story of the 1939 National Air Races DVD captures all of the thrills and excitement of the last Golden Age air race. A unique and extra-special feature of the DVD is over 45 minutes of extremely rare, very high-quality, color film from the 1939 event. This breath-taking film has been seamlessly woven together with hundreds of archival photographs and a specially-written and narrated story to create an unforgettable, in-depth, visual record of the climactic 1939 National Air Races that you wont want to miss!

Along with the Thompson, Bendix and Greve races, youll see all of the great race pilots and planesRoscoe Turner and his LTR-14 racer, Tony LeVier and the Schoenfeldt Firecracker, Steve Wittman and Bonzo, Art Chester and Goon, Frank Fuller, Jackie Cochran, Paul Mantz, and all of the rest.

You can study the crowd scenes and marvel at the fashions worn by the race fans in 1939. Then, youll be awed by the massed might of the militarys demonstration flights and aerial maneuvers. The Army Air Corps was equipped with state-of-the-art Curtiss P-36 Hawks dressed in one-of-a-kind, camouflage paint schemes. The Navy pilots flew their latest Grumman F3F Flying Barrel fighters.

Not to be outdone by the military, the worlds top aerobatic pilots performed their breathtaking acts. These skilled performers include Mike Murphy, Jess Bristow, Bevo Howard, Dick Granere, and Squeek Burnett.

Youll even have a chance to go behind the scenes with the race pilots as they test and then qualify their planes in the days before the races opened.

In addition, two appendices, which cover the detailed race results and the daily schedules, are included as special extras.

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Sports

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• air racing
• airplane
• aircraft
• national air races
• pylon
• Cleveland
• pilot
• red bull
• 1939
• LTR-14
• Golden Age
• Thompson
• Bendix
• Greve
• race
• planes
• Roscoe Turner
• Tony LeVier
• Schoenfeldt
• Firecracker
• Steve Wittman
• Bonzo
• Art Chester
• Goon
• Frank Fuller
• Jackie Cochran
• Paul Mantz
• Army Air Corps
• Curtiss
• P-36
• Hawks
• camouflage paint
• Navy pilots
• Grumman
• F3F
• Flying Barrel
• fighters
• military
• aerobatic pilots
• Mike Murphy
• Jess Bristow
• Bevo Howard
• Dick Granere

[ushouldntjudgeme]

I was born too late !

[ufoengines]

I just finished my screenplay on my hero pilot / race plane builder, who almost wins the race, but still get the girl and a good job as a test pilot with a new aircraft outfit on the west coast.

A very romantic time in U.S. aviation, I had lots of fun with this writing project .

Now if I can get John Travolta interested in producing it, the National's will live again.

[painterjohn512]

Man this is cool.. Im currently painting a Radial Rocket that kinda looks like the one at 0:34. this was an amazing time in aviation.. Thanks for posting it!!

[mig15fan]

Fantastic colour footage! i would be very easy to digitally withdraw stains from that film and would be just perfect!