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Probably not the most beautiful airplane, but then again there is probably no word that describes the Gee Bee racer.
It killed it's original pilot, but Del Mar Benjamin, built this exact replica, and flew it at airshows around the country.
It almost killed him once, when a wingtip suddenly stalled durring landing. He slammed the plane onto the runway, before it could flip over.
It burned up its first set up brakes on the first landing. He installed brakes from a learjet, and solved that problem.
If ever you saw it fly, inlcluding inverted and knife edge passes, you walk away away thinking that somehow it is kind of beautiful!