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1. www.youtube.com › watchGee Bee Airplanes - Those Incredible Gee Bees - YouTube

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   The position of the Gee Bee racers in aviation in history is unique. If one considers the 1931 and 1932 Super Sportster to be essentially one basic design, i...

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2. www.youtube.com › watchGee Bee History Flies Again (1993) - YouTube

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   May 29, 2020 · 279. 24K views 3 years ago. Gee Bee - History Flies Again. The story of the Granville Brothers' Gee Bee R2 race plane - nicknamed the "killer bee" - that was the fastest aircraft in the...

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3. www.youtube.com › watchGee Bee R-1 & Clodhopper Flights at Geneseo, NY - YouTube

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   Jul 24, 2021 · Flights by two of Doug Beardsworth's beautiful rubber-powered free-flight models, the 24" Gee Bee R-1 and the 47" Clodhopper II from 1937. Flown at Geneseo, NY on July 14-15, 2021.

4. www.historynet.com › ultimate-racing-machines-geeUltimate Air Racing Machines: Gee Bee R-1 and R-2 - HistoryNet

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   Mar 10, 2017 · The R-1’s Wasp was swapped out for a more powerful Pratt & Whitney Hornet, capable of propelling the racer over 300 mph, while the R-2 inherited the Wasp. Additionally, the R-1 received a larger fuel tank, making it a Bendix Trophy contender. The R-2 acquired a new wing with something novel for Super Sportsters—flaps.

5. www.flightjournal.com › the-worlds-fastest-ponyGeeBee R-1 and R-2: Air Racing with the World’s Fastest Pony ...

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   Jan 16, 2020 · The “R” series was designed for both pylon and cross-country racing. The R-1 tried to hide an 800-horse, wildly hopped up R-1340 P & W under its blunt cowl and was the pylon specialist of the two. The R-2 had a smaller R-985 P&W that was usually 450hp, but by the time they were finished tweaking supercharger ratios, it cranked out 535 hp.

6. www.centennialofflight.net › Gee_Bees › EX23The Gee Bees: the Planes, Their Designers, and Their Pilots

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   From their inception in the early 1930s to the present day, the Gee Bees have remained among the most controversial airplanes in aviation history. While some scholars and aircraft enthusiasts have continued to consider them "killer planes," others admire their advanced aerodynamic designs and argue that several skilled pilots safely flew the ...

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   Are Gee bees air racing?

   • Today it’s impossible to think of the golden age of air racing without an R-1 or R-2 Gee Bee roaring across the mind’s eye. To the aviation public, the Gee Bees air racing — and vice versa. And that’ s only right.

   GeeBee R-1 and R-2: Air Racing with the World’s Fastest

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   Who piloted the Gee Bee R1?

   • Piloted by Jimmy Doolittle, the Gee Bee R-1 set a world landplane speed record of 296 mph and won the Thompson Trophy before 60,000 enthusiastic race fans at the 1932 National Air Races in Cleveland. Gehlbach, also an experienced test pilot, raced the R-2 from Burbank, Calif., to Cleveland during the 1932 Bendix Transcontinental Race.

   Ultimate Air Racing Machines: Gee Bee R-1 and R-2 - HistoryNet

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   What was it like flying the Gee bees?

   • It must have been an incredible experience for the small number of pilots who flew the Gee Bees. At that time aviation was populated almost exclusively by stodgy biplanes and flying an airplane like the Super Sportster was like being asked to fly the Space Shuttle with nothing but Piper Cub time in your logbook. Still, they did it.

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   Who was the last pilot to fly a Gee Bee?

   • Doolittle and Gehlbach would be the last pilots to finish a race flying the Gee Bee R-1 and R-2. Both were brilliant, accomplished pilots who considered the airplanes fast but unstable—“too hot” for just anybody to fly. During the 1932 Thompson Trophy Race, Jimmy Doolittle flashes past a pylon in the R-1. (National Archives)

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8. planesoffame.org › aircraft › plane-R-1Granville Brothers R-1 'Gee Bee' | Planes of Fame Air Museum

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   HISTORY. Following the success of their Models Y and Z, the Granville Brothers of Springfield, MA developed the R-1 and R-2 models for the 1932 air racing season. (Gee Bee is a "spelling out" of the brothers' GB initials.) The aircraft were similar, differing chiefly in powerplant and cowling design.