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Pilots and Ships
in the 1933
AIR RACES

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"Jimmy" Wedell, pilot and builder of the Wedell-Williams racers which have been consistent winners in the high-speed classics during the last two years.

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May Haizlip, who last year established a new women's world speed record of 255.5 miles per hours in the Shell speed dash.

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"Jimmy" Haizlip, who established a transcontinental speed record of 10 hours and 19 minutes in the Bendix cross-country dash last year.

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"Miss San Francisco R-1"
trophy won by Ray Moore
free-for-all race last year.

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Ben O. Howard and his sensational little 1931 model, "Pete." He will fly his larger model, "Mike," in the 550 cubic inch races this year.

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World record holder, the Gee Bee No. 11, flown last year by "Jimmy" Doolittle and entered in this year's races by Russell N. Boardman.

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Lockheed Orion, one of the world's fastest commercial planes of the type to be flown by Ruth Nichols in the transcontinental Bendix dash.

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Ruth Nichols,
famous sportswoman pilot, who will compete with Amelia Earheart in the first transcontinental race for women pilots.

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Maj. Ernst Udet, famous German pilot and greatest living World War ace, who thrilled Cleveland in 1931 and will appear daily this year. At right he is seen in his cross-country touring plane.