Aviation History: footage of 1929, 1931, and 1931 National Air Races

I enjoy reading about aviation history and I was reading about the 1929 National Air Races in Cleveland Ohio in a book by Elinor Smith. Among other things, she got her pilot's license at 16 and flew under all four spans on the East River in New York City when she was 17. Elinor was named women aviator of the year in 1930. Elinor wrote her autobiography, Aviatrix, in 1981 and if you enjoy reading about early aviation history you will enjoy reading her autobiography. Here is short piece from NPR (2010).

Elinor was at the 1929 National Air Race in Cleveland, Ohio. Among other things she dropped parachuters and did some stunt flying. I got interested in seeing if I could find some footage of the 1929 National Air Race and came across this great footage posted by PeriscopeFilm on Youtube. The footage is just under 24 minutes with some very cool old airplanes and some nice footage of stunt flying. As I understand it this footage is compilation of footage from the 1929, 1931, and 1930 air races (in that order, see the information in this Youtube link for more information.



Direct link to Youtube video uploaded by PeriscopeFilms