San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Wedell Williams Model 44 Racer NX-536V
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Wedell Williams Model 44 Racer X-536V
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Weddell William Model 44
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Weddell William Model 44
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Weddell William Model 44
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Weddell William Model 44
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Weddell William Model 44
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Weddell William Model 44
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Mary Haizlip
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Mary Haizlip
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Jim and Mary Haizlip
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
The Haizlips
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Travel Air Model R
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Wedell Williams Model 44 Racer NX-536V. View from the rear of the plane circa 1930,Location:Wedell-Williams Air Service Co, Patterson, LA
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Wedell Williams Model 44 Racer NX-536V. Left side view of the plane circa 1930,Location:Wedell-Williams Air Service Co, Patterson, LA
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Wedell Williams Model 44 Racer NX-536V. When it was first flown as an experimental plane it was called the Lester Special circa 1930,Location:Wedell-Williams Air Service Co, Patterson, LA
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Wedell Williams Model 44 Racer X-536V. Called The Utican -first version of this experimental plane. Pilot unknown circa 1930,Location:Wedell-Williams Air Service Co, Patterson, LA
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Wedell Williams Model 44 Racer Three racing planes built by Wedell-Williams on a tarmack - from left to right - Number
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Mary Haizlip was the second women in the U.S. to receive her commercial pilot's license and held the world's speed record for women for seven years. She was the first woman pilot inducted into the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame circa 1930,Locati
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Wedell Williams Model 44 Racer NR-536V. Autographed photo of James Haizlip standing next to the plane that Mary Haizlip flew in the Bendix Trophy Race in 1932 - Mary also flew this plane in the 1933 International Air Races (Women's Unlimited) and won the
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Wedell Williams Model 44 Racer Planes getting ready to race - NR-536V (Number 92) is possibly in the center of the photo circa 1930,Location:Wedell-Williams Air Service Co, Patterson, LA
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Mrs. Mary Haizlip at the Sea Lion Restaurant, Malibu 31472,Location:Malibu, CA
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Portrait of Mary (also known as Mae or May) circa 1930s or 1940s,Location:
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Portrait of Jim Haizlip, a World War I hero, was one of the more successful Wedell-Williams racing pilots. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, he lived most of his life in Ferguson, Missouri, where he worked as an assistant manager of Shell Petroleum Compa
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
This a reproduction of the Mary Haizlip Signed 8x 10Photograph - Aviation Pioneer that went up for auction on December 18, 2012 and sold for $12. The original had been signed in black felt pen by her and it said
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Wedell Williams Model 44 Racer Jim Haizlip won the famed Bendix Race of 1932, and, during the same year, his wife Mary (Mae) established a women's world speed record that held for 7 years. He broke Jimmy Doolittle's transcontinental record, and she flew s
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Wedell Williams Model 44 Racer NR-536V. This is the plane that Mary Haizlip flew in the Bendix Trophy Race in 1932 10959,Location:Wedell-Williams Air Service Co, Patterson, LA
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
American Eagle A-129 C506H. Mary Haizlip over Kansas City in American Eagle. This longnosed ship was familiarly known as the nteatermodel, or, nteater Eagle.1929,Location:American Eagle Aircraft Corp
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Wedell Williams Model 22 This is either the NR-60Y or the NR-64Y in front of the Wedell-Williams hanger possibly in Patterson, Louisiana 1932,Location:Wedell-Williams Air Service Co, Patterson, LA
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives:
Wedell Williams Model 22 NR-60Y. Another view of the NR-60Y and in this configuration the plane competed in smaller races throughout the south during 1932. 1932,Location:Wedell-Williams Air Service Co, Patterson, LA
