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8 September 2008
Update 6 October 2008
Art moved to this page 27 August 2014
("Widgets for Victory" by R.J.Bartrop now has larger files)
Links added 20 July 2016

*  Art added 22 August 2016  *

Speed Week!
 Aircraft Race Art - Page 2

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Italian Poster for Speed Week 1938 - by Stuart McCarthy
Italian Poster for Speed Week 1938 - by Stuart McCarthy
http://duraluminwolf.deviantart.com/
[Larger version Here]

Sophia Bianco race photo 1032 - by Stuart McCarthy
Sophia Bianco race photo 1932 (adjusting chinstrap) - by Stuart McCarthy
http://duraluminwolf.deviantart.com/



"The Italian planes, blowing black smoke from their exhausts,
their engines screaming, cut the pylons wide, while the Americans
in their more maneuverable ships banked vertically around them."

(1926 from 'The Story of the Schneider Trophy Race' in This Was Air Travel
by Henry R.Palmer, Jr. -
1962)


"Quick Look" - a sketch by Wolfie DarkWolfie
"Quick Look" - a sketch by Wolfie DarkWolfie

"Widgets for Victory!" Speed Week Program Book ad, featuring Big Red - by R. J. Bartrop
"Widgets for Victory!" - (Larger file here - 2.6 MBytes)
(Speed Week program book ad, modeled by
singer 'Big Red')
by R.J.Bartrop -
http://rjbartrop.artspots.com

 

Speed Week 1931 Poster (Romania) (thumbnail) - by Stuart McCarthy
Speed Week 1931 Poster (Romania)  by Stuart McCarthy
(Larger file here - 565 KBytes)

http://duraluminwolf.deviantart.com/
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/duraluminwolf/
http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Duraluminwolf/

Tillamooka "Mystery Ship" floatplane racing aircraft (circa 1936)- by Simon Barber
Tilamook "Mystery Ship" floatplane (1936 Speed Week races, Spontoon Island)  *
by Simon Barber, 2005

"By the Skin of Our Teeth" - by Jerry Collins
"By the Skin of Our Teeth" - by Jerry Collins  *

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