MYSTERY SHIP RACER, LARGE SCALE.
Mystery Ships were a series of wire-braced, low-wing racing airplanes built by the Travel Air company in the late 1920s and early 1930s. They were so called, because the first three aircraft of the series were built entirely in secrecy.
In 1929 the Mystery Ship won the Thompson Cup Race at a speed of 194.9 mph (one lap flown at 208.69 mph), beating the military entries, this was the first time in the history of air racing that a civilian racer had...
