Gee Beegone ! - Page 3

**rjm** · #21 03-08-2017, 04:25 PM

They are not mentioned in "Aircraft in Profile"#51," The Gee Bee Racers".
Cheers, Bob

**Thumb Dog** · #22 03-08-2017, 09:50 PM

Hi All,

The notion of a Gee Bee R-3 made me furrow my brow. Wasn't there something slapped together after the crashes of the R-1 and R-2? Well, yes. In the declining days of the Granville Brothers efforts, it was decided to take the fuselage of the Thompson Trophy winning R-1, (which Russell Boardman had balled up in his fatal crash at the Bendix) and the remaining wings of the R-2, (that Jimmy Haizlip had lost on a vicious snap roll upon landing) and glue them together and make what was called the R-1/R-2 Long Tail Racer. The end of this monstrosity came in the fall of 1933 when Roy Minor drove the R-1/R-2 into a drainage ditch. This closed the curtain on the famed Gee Bee "Flying Barrel" racers of the early 1930s.

At least the R-1/R-2 adds up to R-3.

Score and fold,

Thumb Dog

**Kugelfang** · #23 03-09-2017, 06:22 AM

I thought the same thing... that maybe the R-1/R2 had been popularly renamed R-3. But JohnM solved the mystery while I was perusing my book on air racers.

--jeff

**sprogs** · #24 03-25-2017, 01:30 PM

WELL. ! My memory is a little bit unreliable these days !
It must have been the cheese sandwich, (Definitely not the lager), but between downloading the plans and waking up I seem to have converted the flying model plans into card model plans.

Sorry.

Exit, stage left, ...
Liz

**JohnM** · #25 03-25-2017, 02:53 PM

OK, so there ain't a real one after all, but it's still a beautiful dream. Perhaps this thread will spark somthin' off in the mind of one of our illustrious designers. Perfect for a 1:200 Bruno design me thinks, or p'raps Aaron's up for the challenge? I'm sure there's more'n' few builders would love to make it.