Dora Wings 1/48 Gee Bee R1 by Huw Morgan

T

he so-called Golden Age

of privateer air racing in

America lasted barely a

decade, between the late 1920s

and the advent of World War II. It

was an inevitable consequence

of the birth of aviation, as racing

aircraft against each other

and the clock had become the

norm barely ten years after the

Wright Brothers had scraped

over the dunes at Kitty Hawk.

Several prestigious competitions

emerged, most famously the

Bendix Trophy, a cross-country

race of 2500 miles from Los

Angeles to Cleveland, and the

Thompson Trophy, a free-for-all

sprint around pylons set on a 10

mile course outside Cleveland. The

National Air Races were a week-

long extravaganza based around

Labour Day, attracting tens of

thousands of spectators, and flying

(literally) in the face of the dire

economic circumstances gripping

the whole country at the time.

Front and central in the hot

KIT DETAILS

KIT: GEE BEE R1

MANUFACTURER: DORA WINGS

SCALE: 1:48

PRODUCT CODE: 48002

PANEL LINES: RECESSED

STATUS: NEW TOOL

DECAL OPTIONS: 1

KICK LIKE A

MULE

Sting like a Bee,

72 • AUGUST 2018 • SCALE AVIATION MODELLER INTERNATIONAL

BY SACCO DE VRIES

GEE BEE R1

BY HUW MORGAN

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