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Ever heard of "Laird Aircraft Company"? Or of ‘Sky Buzzard’? But of ‘Jimmy Doolittle’! All three have written an amazing story: Laird Super Solution!

by Roland Sachsenhofer on November 8, 2024 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

Jimmy Doolittle, Aemilia Earhart, Jaqueline Cochran, Paul Mantz... - there is a place and a time where all these greats of the ‘golden era’ of US aviation can be found: the races of the Bendix Trophy of the 1930s not only brought [...]

Laird's "Solution" Thompson Trophy Racer

by John W Summerford on January 24, 2024 · in Aviation · 24 ≡

Three weeks before the 1930 Thompson Trophy race, held in Chicago, Lee Shoenhair of the Goodrich Co. placed an order with the E.M. Laird Airplane company for a racer based on their Speedwing designs of commercial aircraft and featuring the [...]