1947 NATIONAL AIR RACES CLEVELAND OHIO PAUL MANTZ JACKIE COCHRAN THOMPSON TROPHY RACE 56674

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5 жыл бұрын

This color film provides highlights of the 1947 Cleveland National Air Races. A plane sits under a SkyTech Inc. sign. The B.F. Goodrich plant can be seen. The grandstand, Frederick C. Crawford, and Governor Thomas Herbert kick-off the 1947 Cleveland National Air Races (:40-1:30). Movie stunt flyer Paul Mantz wins the trophy for the cross-country Bendix Trophy race. He is joined by female pilot Jacqueline Cochran to congratulate him (1:31-2:46). Stunt flier Jimmy Grenier purposely awkwardly skims the ground in his plane (2:47-3:18). Midget planes with C85 engines compete in the Goodyear Trophy Race. “The Whitman Special wins” (3:19-5:04). A survey show simulates actual battle conditions. A formation of B-29s pass over. A Navy planes show off formation flying techniques (5:07-6:03). The all-women racers get ready for the Halle Trophy Race. The Queen City Flying Service plane is shown. One female racer’s plane is damaged up but she’s okay. Ruth Johnson receives her trophy (6:04-7:32). A bi-plane performs spins and upside-down flying tricks (7:33-8:17). The Kendall Trophy Race is limited to P-51 aircraft of identical design. Pilots use Kendall oil products to prepare their planes. The “Galloping Ghost” wins and receives his trophy (8:18-11:07). A helicopter performs (11:08-11:33). The Allison Trophy Race is a cross-country race for jet-propelled aircraft sponsored by GM. Lockheed P-80s compete (PN-309, PN-388, and PN-331) (1:34-12:28). A JATO (jet-assisted take-off) aircraft is shown (12:29-12:53). Three military officers win the Weatherhead Trophy for the world’s fastest mile (12:54-13:13). The Ohio Trophy Race features a single P-38 named Lockheed Lightning (13:14-14:09). A pusher-type plane with a 65-hoursepower engine performs (14:10-14:39). The Tenorman Trophy Race features P-63s. The 21-year old winner is shown with his large trophy (14:40-15:08). One Thompson Trophy race featured planes with reciprocating engines (15:09-16:06). The final Thompson Trophy Race qualifiers are based on speed only so a variety of aircraft qualify, including Corsairs. P-63s, and P-38s. A plane comes in too low and crashes. The winner is shown (16:07-18:30). The Cook Cleland’s Euclid Avenue Airport is shown. The wind sock says Kendall. The first place winners are individually shown for each race. The Kendall logo is shown (18:31-19:36).
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@calbob750 3 жыл бұрын

Cook Cleland had an airport in Willoughby Ohio. The hangar still stands. Just off Euclid Avenue. Cook kept his surplus PBY Catalina’s there that he was going to use for hunting trips to Canada across Lake Erie. The Sohio 57 Corsair was kept there.

@jeffgreen7499 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I too saw #57 once, sometime back in the late 50s early 60s, abandoned and alone sitting in a field for many years. This was formerly Cook Cleland's Euclid Avenue Airport at the corner US RT 20(Euclid Avenue) and Beidler Road. Our dad drove from our home in Eastlake to take my younger brother and me over to see this fabulous warbird. I didn't remember that the plane was numbered, but I still remembered it was red and white and the wings were clipped. I wanted to get in the plane but wasps were living in the cockpit. The plane sat alone near the one building that was there, the hangar. That was over 1/2 a century ago, that area is built up now, buildings covering all around the old airfield. But amazingly, that hangar is still there, the only reminder that an airport was once here. I was looking at WW2 aircraft on Wiki, and surprised to discover that #57 was saved. Never expected to ever meet this bird ever again, and now I've found out it learned to fly again. Amazing!

@KeithKman 2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffgreen7499 thanks for sharing your story. Racer 57 is now in Bentonville, AR. I saw her two weeks ago and she is absolutely magnificent to see in person. Just go stand in her presence takes your breath away.

@JonC341 5 жыл бұрын

3:08 me playing microsoft flight x steam edition in a plane I didnt know had auto land. XD

@todd3205 3 жыл бұрын

I've stood on the wing of Cook Cleland's F2G Super Corsair At the late Walter Soplata's fabled airplane graveyard in Newbury, Oh. Sadly, this plane was sold, restored, and crashed - just what Walter told me would happen to it if he ever sold it.

@WarbirdKid1940 6 ай бұрын

If it was the Red/White Race 57 then it is still around and flying. If it was the Blue/White Race 74, then yes, sadly it did crash. But it is now supposedly being rebuilt to fly again.

@sonnyburnett8725 4 жыл бұрын

Don’t you know those guys could teach us a thing or two!

@trackhoe23 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder how many of those planes are still flying or at least in existence. I know Galloping Ghost crashed in 2011 at Reno.

@robdonnelly6537 5 жыл бұрын

To see so many B-29's in formation at an air show...and now only 2 remain airworthy...kinda sad...

@rosedrum 4 жыл бұрын

Buster, (Bill Brennon & Wittman's airplane) is in the National Mall Smithsonian museum.

@nikkoy.1340 3 жыл бұрын

Of the 1947 Thompson Air Race, only 2 are known to survive. Here's the fate of the entire starter field: 1) F2G-2 NX5577N/ Race Number 74 (ex-BuNo 88463): destroyed in a fatal inflight fire, September 7th 2012 2) XF2G-1 NX5590N/ Race Number 94 (ex-BuNo 14693): Scrapped post-1949. 3) P-39Q NX92848/Race Number 11 (ex-42-20869): destroyed in a fatal crash, August 10th 1968 4) P-51D NX79111/Race Number 77 (ex-44-15651): Galloping Ghost, destroyed in the September 16th 2011 Reno Air Crash 5) P-38L-5 NX21764/Race Number 3 (ex-44-53078): destroyed in a fatal crash, August 4th 1965. Some remains recovered 1990. 6) P-63A NX69901/Race Number 55 (ex-42-69063): struck off February 20th 1956 and scrapped. - XF2G-1 NX91092/Race Number 18 (ex-BuNo 14694): Scrapped post-1949, aircraft was sold to somebody who recovered the R-4360 but had no interest for the airframe. - A36A NX4E/Race Number 15 (ex-42-83769) : Destroyed during emergency landing after engine exploded inflight, 1947 Thompson Air Race. Aircraft was too low for pilot to bail out, but pilot survived crash uninjured. - P-51D N37492/Race Number 37 (ex-44-63576): Survivor. Currently registered N51DH. - F2G-1 NX5588N/Race Number 84 (ex-BuNo 88457): Destroyed in fatal crash, pilot incapacitated due to carbon monoxide poisoning, 1947 Thompson Air Race. Registration and data plate reused on 88458, a 'scrapped' F2G-1, for the 1948 and 1949 races. - P-40Q-2A NX300B/Race Number 82 (ex-42-45722): Destroyed in crash following engine fire, 1947 Thompson Air Race. Aircraft had not qualified for the main race but pilot took own initiative and started when No.18's engine failed to start at the starter signal. Would probably have been disqualified if he had arrived. - F-5G-6-LO NX25Y/Race Number 14 (ex-44-53254): Survivor. Currently registered N25Y, flown by Red Bull, Salzburg, Austria - P-51C NX4914N/Race Number 34 (ex-42-103725): Destroyed during emergency landing, 1947 Thompson Air Race (shown in the above film)

@dhyde9207 Жыл бұрын

@@robdonnelly6537 ... I believe those were B-17's

@justforever96 Жыл бұрын

Yes, and they will all be crashed and destroyed if we keep flying them all. I know everyone likes to say "they sound be down and not sitting in museums", but it seems pretty selfish to me to enjoy watching them all fly at the coast of losing them all so future generations can't experience it at all.

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