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Williams Brothers’ Gee Bee R – December 2015

Posted by Mark Hembree
on Friday, October 23, 2015

Greg Hildebrandt

Winamac, Indiana

Greg built the Williams Brothers’ 1/32 scale Gee Bee R race plane. The name Gee Bee stands for the plane’s builders, Granville Brothers, of Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1932, piloted by Jimmy Doolittle, the R-1 won the Thompson Trophy race and set a world speed record of 296 mph in the Shell Speed Dash.

 

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