![]() ![]() (you have to haunt the good used book stores). It is also long out of print, and expensive. I will check on this one when I get home tonight. I have another book that I can't recall the name of, but I think it is "The Speed Seekers" which has a lot of the very early racing planes in very good detail. Most are National Air Races or Thompson Trophy planes, with quite a few of the Schneiders. Reed Kinert's Air Racing books from way back in the day are long out of print, but have some decent drawings. It is huge and two volumes, expensive but worth it for racing planes, but not much on Schneiders. It has everything, but not even the 1/72 scale plans you want to blow up to 1/32.Īircraft of Air Racing's Golden Age focuses on the Cleveland/ National Air Races and Thompson races and has larger plans with color profiles. This is the best book I have and has many of those plans, but they are not large. Schneider Trophy Racers costs $115 on Amazon new, but I saw a $35 copy used. There are a number of good books out there, but unfortunately, the plans are almost always about 3" to 4" square. ![]() This covered the Macchi planes almost exclusively. ![]() Pacific Coast Models used to carry this one, but I don't see it listed. Ali d' Italia did a special on the Schneider racers which had color cutaway drawings. ![]()
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