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Delmar Benjamin & Steve Wolf
Softcover
96 pages
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The inside story of the re-creation of the Gee Bee R-2 replica — written an photographed by the men who designed and built it. This star of air shows is followed from re-creating the original plans through all stages of construction. On its first test flights, wowing the crowds at Oshkosh and other air shows. Performing aerobatics, low-level inverted passes, and knife-edge passes — all of which the original was supposedly too unstable to do! An in-depth examination that debunks a few myths, reveals new details, and points out all the features and details of the stubby legend of the 1930s air faces. Features all original photography.
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| Weight | 0.349 kg |
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| Dimensions | 22.9 × 21.0 × 0.60 cm |
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