NATIONAL AIR RACES CLEVELAND OHIO, AUGUST, 1929 News Clippings from Bishop's Album

WORLD'S GREATEST MUNICIPAL AIRPORT GREETS AIR RACERS. Almost one million dollars has been spent on improving the landing field and roads and erecting new hangars at Cleveland Airport to receive the hundreds of airplanes expected to land there this week. This picture was taken from the air looking north along "Hangar Street." CLEVELAND PLAN DEALER Sunday, August 25, 1929 Collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

PART OF THE CROWD OF 35,000 PERSONS Collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

A VIEW OF AIR SHOW AT PUBLIC HALL Collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

THE LOS ANGELES. giant Navy airship, will fly to Cleveland Wednesday, Aug. 28, weather permitting, and be moored overnight to a stub mast 1,100 feet in front of the grandstands at Cleveland Airport. Collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

THE "NINE HIGH HATS" OF THE NAVY WHO GAVE RACE CROWDS SOME THRILLS Collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

THESE ARMY FLYERS DID THEIR "WAR STUFF" Collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

BIGGEST U. S. COMMERCIAL PLANE --This new Boeing, a 25-passenger transport, on exhibition at public hall, is the largest ship of its kind to be used commercially in hte United States. The wing span is 80 feet. Collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

AN AIR MONSTER--The tri-motored Fokker, shown here, is just one of the giants of the air that will be on exhibition at public hall during the week of the Aeronautical exposition. Collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

THE AIR SHOW'S "BABY"--The Super-Parasol, shown here, with Sally Kelly perched under one wing, is the smallest ship on exhibition at the Aeronautical Exposition at public hall. Collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

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