Travel Air
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The Travel Air Manufacturing Company was an aircraft manufacturer established in Wichita, Kansas, United States in January 1925 by Clyde Cessna, Walter Beech, and Lloyd Stearman.
1928 D-4-D at the Hiller Aviation Museum
Travel Air 2000 c/n 669. Built 1928. Now displayed in Yanks Air Museum, in Chino, California, USA
Travel Air 4000 with 2003 National Air Tour logo, in which it participated
Women's Air Derby
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The Women's Air Derby was the first official women-only air race in the United States, taking place during the 1929 National Air Races. Humorist Will Rogers referred to it as the Powder Puff Derby, th
From left to right: Louise Thaden, Bobbi Trout, Patty Willis, Marvel Crosson, Blanche Noyes, Vera Dawn Walker, Amelia Earhart, Marjorie Crawford, Ruth Elder, and Pancho Barnes, in front of NC229K, de Havilland DH.60 Moth (c/n 41); at the Breakfast Club, Los Angeles, California, before the start of the race
Pancho Barnes (fourth from the left) and the Powder Puff Derby at Long Beach, California