What is a Gee Bee?
It’s a Pratt and Whitney R-1340 engine with wings and a tail on it.
In 1932, the Gee Bee (designed and built by Howell Miller and Zantford Granville) was flown by none other than Jimmy Doolittle, won the Thompson Trophy. The aircraft’s top speed was almost 300 mph — back when that was impossibly fast.
This is a replica but I’m not sure who is flying it and what the nature of that flight is. It’s flown here at the International Championship Air Races in the “experimental class”.
We see a lot of these at the Truckee Air Show.
Who ever is flying it is DAMN good!
Always been interested in that plane. Neat.
I could see if they'd let you race it.
I thought that this was the Truckee Air Shoe.
Me too. Never got to check out the cockpit before.
I always thought they looked fake, until I saw one fly.
Just like our Administration! Except for the flying bit, of course.
LSP, I think that you're turning into a cynic… ;^)
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