The Great Days Of Air Races

[@Pilotc180]

Nice history of the good ol days👍

[@victoriataylor5457]

Thank you David for sharing this intresting film !

[@pauljanssens4449]

Absolutely beautiful

[@kpratt71547]

Fantastic film. Thank you for making it

[@mikesuch9021]

I like that group picture with Roscoe Turner Jimmy Doolittle Tony leVeir evidently Steve Whitman was the tallest of them all. He actually has more wins than most of them.

[@paulmatchen838]

Another great documentary, sir. Thanks for posting!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

+Paul Matchen Thank you so much Paul. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@stevem3akm]

Thank you so much

[@jerrydoolittle9747]

Wow, thanks so much for sharing!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

And thank you. Are you a relative of that great old man Jimmy? David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@jerrydoolittle9747]

I am a moderately distant relation. (grand nephew??) Sadly, living on the right coast and he and his family on the left, I never had a chance to meet him in person before his death. We did bring our dad down to attend his funeral which was a special time for all of us. We got to meet several of his team and also members of the Tuskegee Airmen both at Arlington and the following day at the Air & Space museum. As you might imagine we are all aviation nuts, and heard stories growing up of Jimmy’s feats and the dangers involved with flying the Gee Bee. This made it additionally sweet to see the video footage of him racing it. Thanks again!

[@justforever96]

Wow, all this time, and I never had any idea that there was a little door in the side of the GeeBee racer for the pilot to climb in and out! That's so unique! 4:38

[@P61guy61]

Thank you.

[@Tiagomottadmello]

Amazing !!!!! 👍👍

[@gregtaylor6146]

All very pedestrian compared to Europe's mighty Schneider Trophy racers.

[@__-vb3ht]

The Schneider Teams where backed by their respective governments and militaries. Whereas the Bendix and Thompson Trophy races were made up of privateers. And the financial situation was different as well. The roaring twenties had passed, this was during the depression. Sometimes the engines were on loan from the engine manufacturers, and Steve Wittman reportedly lived on a budget of five dollars a day, including what he spent on building his racing aircraft. I think he was sleeping on a mattress in the hangar of the air field he was employed at. So considering their resources, the American golden age racers were punching above their weight

[@onazram1]

Very well done...

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you!

[@erictaylor5462]

2:55 Imagine trying to out of there after the race. I bet it took hours to just get out of the parking lot.

[@RichardRaueiser]

Awsome video, yep we are. Sorry comenting any way

[@erictaylor5462]

0:50 "(Airplanes) will always do that what you don't want them to do." Not if you are a competent pilot. A good pilot knows the limits of their skills and their machine. They take care to never exceed those limits. They know exactly how their plane will react in any given situation. Pilots who do not understand these things have short lives.

[@hotrodray9884]

E X C E L L E N T !!!!!!

[@matiakarrell92]

David who is the woman speaking at the end? It is so beautiful.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

She is a local friend where I come from in Maine. David Hoffman Filmmaker

[@erictaylor5462]

6:30 I wish people still wore helmets and flying goggles to the office! 😁

[@justforever96]

I also notice that employ that sneaky tactic of showing footage that COULD be of the event being described in the narrative, but which is actually footage of something totally different. For example, while they talk about the death of Doug Davis, it shows stills of an aircraft crashing. But Davis died in a high-speed pileup; to my knowledge, there is no footage, because it was out of the view of the grandstands. The footage it shows appears to be of a landing accident.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

+justforever96 I appreciate your comments and respectfully answer them. Clearly, you have never made a documentary about something that took place a long time ago but rarely is the actual footage available. Documentaries like mine are accurate in terms of footage when they can be and present something that gives a feeling for what is being said when there is no footage available. The most important thing is the story and the feeling, not the accuracy of every image. This film was made for presentation at the air and space Museum in Washington where the average age of the audience is under 30 years old. I'm sure you understand. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@lewisdavid623]

One final request to use some footage for student project for historical documentary on the man who recreated Mr Mulligan........do we have your permission?

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

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[@jarrodulrich3037]

Does anyone know who the lady was who said that final quote at the end?

[@jarrodulrich3037]

"If you live in the past and dread the future, you've destroyed the present"

[@Lutheriarotavita]

anne reitch????!!!!!

[@jimmywrangles]

Not sure why they let airforce jets compete, that's not fair.