The Great Lakes Trainer: Gee Bee Competitor Extraordinaire

Four of the top ten finishers in the 1930 Cirrus All American Derby were Great Lakes Trainers

C.W. Meyers and the Great Lakes Special Racer he flew in the 1930 Cirrus All American Derby
Great Lakes Trainer – Gee Bee Competitor Extraordinaire

In a recent post Mystery of the Gee Bee X, we told the story of the last flight of the Gee Bee X in September, 1931 in Brattleboro, VT.  A year before, the Model X and its pilot Lowell Bayles won 2nd place among 18 entries in the 1930 All-America Derby, a coast-to-coast, city-to-city reliability tour of 6,553 miles for Cirrus engine powered aircraft.

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