Thomas G. Foxworth

The Speed Seekers documents a technological growth, which fostered results in terms of increasing speed unequaled in any similar time span up until the birth of the jet age. During the turbulent inter-war years the world speed record became very much a matter of national prestige and the air races to that period are still remembered with reverence today. The simultaneous events in France, the Untied States, Great Britain, and Italy are related with equal perception and the classic speedplanes of all four nations - together with the men who shared their destiny - are celebrated in this definitive volume. With its unique tables of aircraft and engine performance data complementing scrupulously researched text,… (mere)