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Past Winners of National Air Race Speed Classics

(The late) CHAS. W. "SPEED" HOLMAN
Winner of the Thompson Trophy Race at the 1930 National Air Races in Chicago. He flew a Laird powered with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr., 300 H. P. motor. His time for ten laps of the ten mile course was 29 minutes, 42 second at an average speed of 201.90 miles per hour.

MAJOR JAMES H. DOOLITTLE
Winner of the Bendix Trophy Race in 1931 establishing a transcontinental speed record of 11 hours, 16 minutes, 10 seconds, with an average speed of 217.757 M. P. H. He flew From Burbank, Cal., to Newark, N. J. in a Laird powered with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr., 425 H. P. motor. His time from Burbank to Cleveland was 9 hours, 10 minutes, 21 seconds at an average speed of 223,038 M. P. H. 

(The late) LOWELL R. BAYLES
Winner of the Thompson Trophy Race at the 1931 National Air Races in Cleveland. Flying a Gee Bee powered with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr., motor, he made ten laps of the ten mile course in 25 minutes, 23.88 seconds at an average speed of 236.239 M. P. H.

GLADYS O'DONNELL
Winner of the 1930 Aerol Trophy Race in the Women's Derby from Long Beach, Cal., to the National Air Races at Chicago. She flew a Waco powered with a Wright Whirlwind motor. Her time was 15 hours, 12 minutes.

PHOEBE FAIRGRAVE OMLIE
Winner of the Aerol Trophy Race in 1929 on the basis of a point formula, in the first National Women's Derby from Santa Monica, CAL., to Cleveland. She flew a Monocoupe, powered with a Warner motor. Her time was 25 hours, 10 minutes, 36.5 seconds. Her average speed was 108.19 M. P. H.

MAUDE- IRVING TAIT
Winner of the 1931 Aerol Trophy race, a free-for-all closed course event at the National Air Races in Cleveland. She flew a Gee Bee Y, powered with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp C motor. Her time for the 50 mile race was 15 minutes, 59.62 seconds, for an average speed of 187.574 M. P. H.
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